Sydney Theatre Company has been a major force in Australian
drama since its establishment in 1978. The Company presents an
annual season at its home base The Wharf, on Sydney's harbour at
Walsh Bay, the nearby Sydney Theatre, which STC also manages, and
as the resident theatre company of the Sydney Opera House. Current
Artistic Directors, Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton joined the
Company at the beginning of 2008.
Sydney Theatre Company offers Sydney audiences an eclectic
program of Australian plays, lively interpretations of the classic
repertoire and the best of new international writing. It seeks to
produce theatre of the highest standard that consistently
illuminates, entertains and challenges. It is committed to the
engagement between the imagination of its artists and its audiences
and the development of the theatrical art-form. As the state
theatre company of NSW, it also produces a significant education
program for schools, STC Ed, and in its studio space produces work
devised by, and for, developing artists, originating in 1988 with
Baz Lurhmann's Six Years Old and, in its current identity, as Next
Stage. The Company reaches beyond its home state, touring
productions throughout Australia and internationally. It plays
annually to audiences in excess of 300,000.
Sydney Theatre Company actively fosters relationships and
collaborations with international artists and companies. Renowned
directors Benedict Andrews, Michael Blakemore, Max Stafford-Clark,
Howard Davies, Declan Donnellan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Liv
Ullmann, Steven Soderbergh and Tamás Ascher have worked with STC in
recent years. STC has launched and fostered the theatre careers of
many of Australia's internationally renowned artists including Mel
Gibson, Judy Davis, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, Geoffrey Rush, Toni
Collette, Rose Byrne and Cate Blanchett. STC has presented
productions by Abbey Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Complicite, Cheek
by Jowl, Out-of-Joint, National Theatre of Great Britain and
Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
In recent years, the company has performed at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music in New York with its productions of The
White Devil (2001), Hedda Gabler (2006)
and A Streetcar Named Desire (2009). In 2012 STC
will tour Uncle Vanya to the Lincoln Center
following a successful tour to the Kennedy Center in Washington in
2011, which also hosted A Streetcar Named
Desire in 2010. Gross und Klein (Big and
Small) will also tour in 2012, playing at London's
Barbican, Theatre de la Ville in Paris, Festwochen in Vienna and
Ruhrfestspiele, Recklinghausen...
STC Annual Report 2010
STC Annual Report 2011