* The Australian composer Nigel Butterley set the verse in his 2008 choral work " Beni Avshalom ", commissioned by the Sydney Chamber Choir

They include the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, Turin in 2006, Beijing in 2008, Vancouver in 2010, and London in 2012.

* Lucy Chesser, Parting with My Sex: Cross-dressing, Inversion and Sexuality in Australian Cultural Life, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2008.

On 6 December 2008 Crowded House played the Homebake festival in Sydney, with warm up gigs at small venues in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney.

P. Lovecraft: Alone in Space ,” chapter 3 in Emperors of Dreams: Some Notes on Weird Poetry by S. T. Joshi ( Sydney: P ’ rea Press, 2008: ISBN 978-0-9804625-3-1 ( pbk ) and ISBN 978-0-9804625-4-8 ( hbk )), discusses some of Lovecraft's weird poetry.

* 1934 – Sydney Pollack, American director ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ( b. 1934 )

* 2006 – 2008, Lumiere residences, Regent Place, Sydney, Australia

It became a full title in 1972 and was published by Nextmedia Pty Ltd, Sydney until 2008.

Crowe helped to organise a rugby league game that took place in Jacksonville, Florida between the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the English Super League champions Leeds Rhinos on 26 January 2008 ( Australia Day ).

The allegations of corruption against Askin were revived in 2008 when Alan Saffron, the son of the late Sydney crime boss Abe Saffron, published a biography of his father in which he alleged that Saffron had paid bribes to major public officials including Askin, former police commissioner Norman Allan, and other leading figures whom he claimed he could not name because they were still alive.

*" A sorry way to right a terrible wrong ", Anne Summers, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 January 2008

In Round 1, 2008, St Kilda CEO Archie Fraser claimed that Craig Bolton " tunnelled " Saints ' captain Nick Riewoldt numerous times in the low-scoring match ( Sydney losing by two points, 6. 13 ( 49 ) to St Kilda's 6. 13 ( 51 ) in a heavily-criticised match ), leading to outrage amongst Swans fans, and also increasing the rivalry between the two clubs.

A clash in 2008 ended in a controversial draw, Sydney 8. 16 ( 64 ) – Nth Melbourne 9. 10 ( 64 ).

These two teams met in the first week of the 2008 finals, with Sydney running out convincing 35-point winners in front of the lowest ever finals crowd in Sydney, in a rain-affected match.

** Sydney Pollack, American film director ( d. 2008 )

Jørn Oberg Utzon, (), AC ( 9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008 ) was a Danish architect, most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia.

One Foot Island was awarded " Australasia's Leading Beach " at the World Travel Awards held in Sydney in June 2008.

Newton-John released another concert DVD, Olivia Newton-John and the Sydney Symphony: Live at the Sydney Opera House, and a companion CD, Olivia's Live Hits, in January 2008.

2008 saw the event moved to Oran Park Raceway as a dual finale for both the 2008 series, as the veteran Sydney circuit's closure was imminent.

The " Theater am Bahnhof " ( Theatre at the Railway Station ) is mostly used by the Theatergruppe Lampenfieber and was opened on 19 October 2008.

The 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in previews on November 24, 2009 and officially on December 13, 2009, with the same creative team.

On January 11, 2008, Talk Is Free Theatre presented the Canadian professional premiere ( in concert ) at the Gryphon Theatre in Barrie, Ontario, with a fundraiser performance on January 13 at the Diesel Playhouse in Toronto, Ontario.

In 2008 Cronenberg realized two extra-cinematographic projects: the exhibition Chromosomes at the Rome Film Fest and the opera The Fly at the LaOpera in Los Angeles and Theatre Châtelet in Paris.

A production opened at the Campbell Theatre in Martinez, CA on June 13, 2008.

The Off-Broadway theatre The American Place Theatre presented a one man show adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 as a part of their 2008 – 2009 Literature to Life season.

In June 2008, he was appointed as Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine's College, Oxford, succeeding Patrick Stewart in the post.

* A biographical musical of Rockne's life premiered at the Theatre at the Center in Munster, Indiana, on April 3, 2008.

The same production opened in the US at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2008, moving to Broadway ( Lyceum Theatre ) after a sold-out run.

From October 2007 to January 2008, he played the role of Wilbur Turnblad in the London production of Hairspray at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

* Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre ( 2008 )

A brand new English musical adaptation of Mort was presented in Guildford, Surrey, UK in August 2008 by Youth Music Theatre: UK.

" He directed a pre-Broadway production of West Side Story at the National Theatre in Washington, D. C. that ran from December 15, 2008 through January 17, 2009.

San Diego Civic Light Opera ( 1983 ), Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera ( 1965, 1967, 1974, 1984, 1990, 1999, 2008 ), and Banff Musical Theatre ( 1984 ) were among the first smaller regional companies to produce it.

A Philippine version premiered on September 5, 2008 at the Meralco Theatre.

On stage he received extensive critical acclaim for his performances in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the National Theatre ; and Pinter's The Homecoming and Miller's The Price in the West End, also appearing in Visiting Mr. Green in 2007 and 2008.

Seigner in concert at the Mermaid Theatre London, 7 July 2008

The last known OmniVision theatres to exist in USA are The Alaska Experience Theatre in Anchorage, Alaska, built in 1981 ( closed in 2007, reopened in 2008 ), and the Hawaii Experience Theatre in Lahaina, Hawaii ( closed in 2004 ).

Having been staged to great acclaim at the Theatre Royal, Brighton in November 2008, the show was then revived at half a dozen further venues in September / October 2009.

* Michael Frayn's play Afterlife, based on Reinhardt's life: National Theatre, London ( 2008 )

The Waterside Theatre ( which is not part of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre complex ) re-opened in December 2004, then closed again in September 2008.

In 2008, Müller's Anatomie Titus was translated into English by Julian Hammond and performed at the Cremorne Theatre in Brisbane, the Canberra Theatre, the Playhouse in the Sydney Opera House and the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne by the Bell Shakespeare Company and the Queensland Theatre Company.