An Evening with Alison Roman In conversation with Adam Liaw
9 May 2023
In the Concert Hall
Talks and Ideas
New York Times best-seller Alison Roman joins Adam Liaw in a fun and lively conversation about food, friends, and why Roman’s no-fuss style strikes a chord.
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Tuesday 9 May |
8pm |
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$45 |
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$59 |
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Run time
This show runs for approx. 1 hour.
Event duration is a guide only and may be subject to change.
Age
16+ recommended.
Recommended for mature audiences only. Contains coarse language & adult themes.
Children aged 15 years and under must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
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A delicious offering best enjoyed in company
Following the release of her third book, Sweet Enough, New York-based cook and writer Alison Roman comes to the Concert Hall for one night only as part of her 2023 Australian Tour.
Roman brings an authentic style to the role food plays in our lives, creating recipes so iconic they have become known by definitive hashtags: #thecookies, #thepasta, #thedip. Capturing global attention through her New York Times bestselling cookbooks Nothing Fancy and Dining In, Substack’s most popular food newsletter titled A Newsletter, and her YouTube series Home Movies, Alison Roman is single-handedly encouraging a generation to ditch “domestic goddess” perfection and embrace a no fuss, no-nonsense approach to cooking for friends.
With her personality just as much a key ingredient in her food as any shallot or anchovy, Alison Roman promises to serve up a healthy side of pragmatism and carefree attitude live on-stage.
Alison Roman will also appear as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival and at Brisbane’s Powerhouse.
The New YorkerAt her place, it’s nighttime, the plates don’t match, your phone’s on the table, and the candle’s burning down to a nub. Her high-spirited, offhand quality makes you feel that the most important element to any meal is gameness. If you could “throw your own hot dog party,” why wouldn’t you?
Meet the speakers
Alison Roman
Alison Roman is a New York–based cook, writer, and author of the New York Times bestselling cookbooks Nothing Fancy and Dining In. She is the host and producer of CNN’s (More Than) A Cooking Show with Alison Roman, the creator of a bi-weekly YouTube series called Home Movies, and the author of a bi-weekly newsletter titled A Newsletter. You can find recipes, videos, recommendations and more, at alisoneroman.com
Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw is a cook, writer and broadcaster. One of Australia’s most in-demand media personalities, Adam hosts The Cook Up with Adam Liaw (SBS), Tomorrow Tonight (ABC), and Good Food Kitchen (Nine) and presents the podcast “How Taste Changed the World” for Audible. He is the author of eight cookbooks, with a 9th due out in October, is the #1 recipe writer for Good Food in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times and WA Today, a weekly columnist for Sunday Life magazine, and columnist for The Guardian. He is also UNICEF Australia’s National Ambassador for Nutrition.
Other information
Venue information
Our foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.
All Sydney Opera House foyers are pram accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators). Pram parking will be available outside the theatres in the Western Foyer.
Getting here
The Sydney Opera House Car Park, operated by Wilson Parking, is open and available to use. Wilson Parking offer discounted parking if you book ahead. Please see the Wilson Parking website for details.
Please check the Transport NSW website for the latest advice and information on travel. You can catch public transport (bus, train, ferry) to Circular Quay and enjoy a six minute walk to the Opera House.
Covid-safe information
The health and wellbeing of everyone attending the Opera House is our top priority. We’re committed to making your experience safe, comfortable and enjoyable, with a number of measures in place including regular cleaning of high-touch areas, air conditioning systems that maximise ventilation, and hand sanitiser stations positioned in all paths of travel. We remind our audiences and visitors to please stay home if you feel unwell. If you need to discuss your ticketing or booking options, contact our Box Office team on 02 9250 7777.
The health and wellbeing of everyone attending the Opera House is our top priority. We have a number of safety measures in place including regular cleaning of high-touch areas, air conditioning systems that maximise ventilation, and hand sanitiser stations positioned in all paths of travel. While face masks are no longer required, we ask all our patrons and visitors to practise good hygiene.
The Sydney Opera House no longer requires patrons to show that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Frequently asked questions
Ticket purchases and collection at our Box Office is discouraged and eTicket or postal delivery methods should be used, wherever possible. However, if you are collecting your tickets from the Box Office, we recommend doing this at least 60 minutes before the event starts. If you have already received your tickets, the venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Please take your seats as soon as you arrive.
If you are late, we will seat you as soon as we can and, where possible, in your allocated seat. However, to reduce movement in the venue as well as minimise disruption to the performance and other patrons, ticketholders may be seated in an allocated latecomer’s seat. Please be aware that some events have lock-out periods. In these cases, latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance. On occasions, this may not be until the interval, or at all where there is no interval.
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In accordance with our venue security procedures, Opera House security will be scanning and checking bags under the Monumental Stairs, prior to entering the building. Bags will be scanned by an x-ray machine, and staff will wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) when handling your belongings, such as gloves. Cloaking facilities will be open 60 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 60 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. However it is strongly encouraged that you travel lightly to minimise contact and queuing. Any bags larger than an A4 piece of paper will need to be checked into the Cloak Room.
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Please contact Box Office on +61 2 9250 7777 as soon as possible to advise if you can no longer attend.
Foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.
The venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances.
Please bring a credit or debit card for any on site purchases to enable contactless payment. You’re welcome to bring your own water bottle but no other food and drinks are permitted inside our venues.
The health, safety and wellbeing of everyone at the Sydney Opera House is our top priority. In line with this commitment, the Opera House became a smoke-free site in January 2022. Read our Smoke-free Environment Policy.
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