COMING TO ROO IN 2010

Roo Theatre's Summer Pantomime. A "don't miss" production that promises to introduce new-comers to the Cat-In-The_Hat and also give those old (and not so old) timers a trip down memory lane of those halcyon days of Dr. Seuss. Season is scheduled for Jan '10

The first musical of the year from Roo which will be a major event in the Illawarra. A dynamic cast with an orchestra to match will ensure that you relive the high energy and theatrical prowess of Peter Allen. The season is scheduled for Feb '10

Cloudstreet is a drama based on the novel by Australian writer Tim Winton. It chronicles the lives of two working class Australian families who come to live together at One Cloud Street, over a period of twenty years, 1943 - 1963. It was the recipient of a Miles Franklin Award in 1992.

Oliver! comes to Roo Theatre in a dazzling new production. This much-loved musical vividly brings to life Dickens’ timeless characters with its ever-popular story of the boy who asked for more.

The multi-award winning play follows an unruly bunch of bright and brash sixth-form boys from a northern grammar school in the Thatcherite eighties. The boys are - naturally - in pursuit of sex, sport, spirituality... and a coveted place at one of England's finest universities.

The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. After fifteen years in exile, Benjamin returns to London under the new identity of Sweeney Todd, seeking revenge against Turpin. He meets the widow Mrs. Lovett who is the owner of a meat pie shop who tells him that Lucy committed suicide with arsenic many years ago, and Turpin assigned himself tutor of Johanna. He opens a barber shop above her store, initiating a crime rampage against those who made him suffer and lose his beloved family