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“Macbeth (An Undoing)”: A New Take That Aims To Reimagine Lady Macbeth’s Path – But Ultimately Leaves You Guessing

Posted by Kate Hunter | 24th Jul 2024 | Adaptation, Australia, Review

What if significant portions of William Shakespeare’s text for Macbeth had been lost, leading to a...

Bell Shakespeare’s New “King Lear” Understands The Joy Of A Good Tragedy

Posted by Kirk Dodd | 20th Jul 2024 | Australia, Dramaturgy, Review, Sydney

It is a common reflex to reach for Aristotle’s Poetics to determine what a good tragedy should be....

At This Year’s Rising Festival, I Was Most Excited By The New And Unexpected Audiences

Posted by Sarah Austin | 16th Jul 2024 | Australia, Festivals, Melbourne, Review

Rising situates itself as a festival of new art, performance and music that takes place in the...

Sydney Theatre Company’s “Dracula”: A Virtuosic Performance, Sexy Staging, And A Queer Rewriting

Posted by Huw Griffiths | 16th Jul 2024 | Adaptation, Australia, Review

The figure of Dracula has always lived somewhere between the written word, screen projections and...

Adelaide Cabaret Festival Understands How Its Audiences Long For Connection and Community

Posted by Catherine Campbell | 10th Jul 2024 | Australia, Festivals, Review

Now in its 24th year, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s annual celebration of all things cabaret...

I Wholeheartedly Recommend “The President:” A Brilliant Revival Of A Play Of Decay, Terror And Revulsion

Posted by Alexander Howard | 30th Apr 2024 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics

Decay, terror, revulsion. These are three of the central themes of Thomas Bernhard’s rarely...

‘Strong Theatre With Unwavering Precision’: Into The Shimmering World Asks Us What Does It Mean To Be Good?

Posted by Ian Maxwell | 16th Apr 2024 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender

Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World is an unforgiving and, frankly, bleak meditation on what...

Love, Loss And Tears – But Also Laughter: Belvoir’s Compelling And Skilful Staging Of “Holding The Man”

Posted by Huw Griffiths | 28th Mar 2024 | Australia, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review

Walking through Chippendale on my way to Sydney’s Belvoir Street Theatre, where this production of...

Respect And Disrespect Clash Throughout 37 – A Brilliant New Play Exploring Australian Rules Football

Posted by Julie Andrews | 23rd Mar 2024 | Australia, Documentary Theatre, Review

Guernsey number 37 belonged to Aboriginal star football player Adam Goodes when he played for...

At the End of the Land: an avalanche of images that invites us to sit alone in time and space together

Posted by Leah Mercer | 22nd Dec 2023 | Australia, Review

At the End of the Land, a world premiere production by Western Australian interdisciplinary...

Belvoir’s “The Master and Margarita:” Astonishingly Ambitious, Physically Demanding, and a Resounding Success

Posted by Alexander Howard | 1st Dec 2023 | Adaptation, Australia, Review

Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov’s cult novel The Master and Margarita has inspired many artists....

Venus and Adonis: this “play within a plague” about Shakespeare is wildly romantic, erotic and colorful

Posted by Kirk Dodd | 5th Nov 2023 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender

Shakespeare wrote his famous narrative poem Venus and Adonis in a lockdown era when, in 1593, the...

“My Sister Jill:” Patricia Cornelius’ New Play is a Blistering Post-War Social and Cultural Commentary

Posted by Sarah Austin | 25th Oct 2023 | Adaptation, Australia, Review

Emerging from one of Australia’s most enduring and significant theatrical partnerships between...

A Journey of Discovery and Identity Formation: “The Dictionary of Lost Words” Makes Its Wonderful Stage Debut

Posted by Russell Fewster | 5th Oct 2023 | Adaptation, Australia, Review

The Dictionary of Lost Words follows Esme as she navigates the patriarchal world of Victorian...

Sydney Theatre Company’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”: Fresh, Funny and Completely Joyous

Posted by Huw Griffiths | 28th Sep 2023 | Acting, Adaptation, Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Politics

It is easy to forget that when Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was first written and...

New Aussie Musical “Bloom” Misses An Opportunity To Interrogate The Gaps In Aged Care – And In Our Social Fabric

Posted by Sarah Austin | 29th Aug 2023 | Australia, Melbourne, Review, Theatre and Age

Bloom, the new Australian musical produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company, is proudly billed by...

I Can’t Imagine Anybody Would Come Out Of “On The Beach” And Not Hold Their Loved Ones Just That Little Bit Closer

Posted by Huw Griffiths | 5th Aug 2023 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Politics

Review: On The Beach, directed by Kip Williams. When Nevil Shute wrote his 1957 novel On the...

Rising Has Yet To Establish Its Voice – But This Year’s Festival Gave Us Significant And Thrilling Work By First Nations Artists

Posted by Sarah Austin | 25th Jun 2023 | Australia, Festivals, Melbourne, Review, Theatre and Decolonization

Rising has just completed its second run across Melbourne. The newest addition to the city’s...

Sydney Theater Company’s “Julia” Powerfully Imagines the Life and Emotions of the Woman Behind the “Misogyny Speech”

Posted by Camilla Nelson | 29th Apr 2023 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics

Just over 10 years ago, then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard stood up in the House of Representatives...

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“Macbeth (An Undoing)”: A New Take That Aims To Reimagine Lady Macbeth’s Path – But Ultimately Leaves You Guessing

Bell Shakespeare’s New “King Lear” Understands The Joy Of A Good Tragedy

At This Year’s Rising Festival, I Was Most Excited By The New And Unexpected Audiences

Sydney Theatre Company’s “Dracula”: A Virtuosic Performance, Sexy Staging, And A Queer Rewriting

Adelaide Cabaret Festival Understands How Its Audiences Long For Connection and Community

I Wholeheartedly Recommend “The President:” A Brilliant Revival Of A Play Of Decay, Terror And Revulsion

‘Strong Theatre With Unwavering Precision’: Into The Shimmering World Asks Us What Does It Mean To Be Good?

Love, Loss And Tears – But Also Laughter: Belvoir’s Compelling And Skilful Staging Of “Holding The Man”

Respect And Disrespect Clash Throughout 37 – A Brilliant New Play Exploring Australian Rules Football

At the End of the Land: an avalanche of images that invites us to sit alone in time and space together

Belvoir’s “The Master and Margarita:” Astonishingly Ambitious, Physically Demanding, and a Resounding Success

Venus and Adonis: this “play within a plague” about Shakespeare is wildly romantic, erotic and colorful

“My Sister Jill:” Patricia Cornelius’ New Play is a Blistering Post-War Social and Cultural Commentary

A Journey of Discovery and Identity Formation: “The Dictionary of Lost Words” Makes Its Wonderful Stage Debut

Sydney Theatre Company’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”: Fresh, Funny and Completely Joyous

I Can’t Imagine Anybody Would Come Out Of “On The Beach” And Not Hold Their Loved Ones Just That Little Bit Closer

Rising Has Yet To Establish Its Voice – But This Year’s Festival Gave Us Significant And Thrilling Work By First Nations Artists

Sydney Theater Company’s “Julia” Powerfully Imagines the Life and Emotions of the Woman Behind the “Misogyny Speech”

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