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The Great Australian Plays: Williamson, Hibberd, And The Better Angels Of Our Country’s Nature

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 15th Oct 2017 | Australia, Playwriting

Two of Australian theatre’s most celebrated artists are scientists. Their CVs may not be...

Ancestry, Storytelling, And Fighting Racism With Rap

Posted by William Peterson | 9th Oct 2017 | Australia, Theatre and Politics

“We are our ancestors’ unfinished sentences, we are their wildest dreams and their most elaborate...

Sydney Festival Review: Beckett’s “All That Fall”

Posted by Anthony Uhlmann | 27th Sep 2017 | Australia, Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Sydney

In the program notes to Pan Pan Theatre’s outstanding production of All That Fall at the Sydney...

Patricia Cornelius’ “Big Heart” Exposes Hypocrisy In Tale Of Multicultural Adoption

Posted by Sandra D'urso | 23rd Sep 2017 | Australia, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics

Playwright Patricia Cornelius is known for populating the stage with complex, working-class,...

“Laser Beak Man” Busts The Fourth Wall And Blows Minds With Superheroic Puppetry

Posted by Peter Moyes | 20th Sep 2017 | Australia, Puppetry, Theatre and Disability

Laser Beak Man, the madcap superhero creation of artist Tim Sharp, who has autism, flew into La...

From Elvis to Cobain, “The Sound of Falling Stars” Revives Those Dead Before Their Time

Posted by William Peterson | 16th Jul 2017 | Australia, Festivals

What unites Sid Vicious and Ricky Nelson, Elvis, and Kurt Cobain, is not just that they were...

Melbourne’s La Mama Demonstrates The Value of Independent Theatre

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 12th Jul 2017 | Australia, Management, Melbourne

This year Melbourne’s La Mama Theatre celebrates its 50th year of operation. In an interview for...

50 Years of Melbourne’s La Mama Theatre

Posted by Denise Varney | 12th Jul 2017 | Australia, Melbourne

When Betty Burstall returned to Australia in 1967 after two years in New York with her husband,...

Vivacious and Unapologetic, “The Rover’s” 17th-century Feminism is Painfully Pertinent

Posted by Claire Hansen | 9th Jul 2017 | Australia, Sydney, Theatre and Gender

The Rover, now on at Belvoir Theatre in Sydney, starts unexpectedly, with long-dead 17th-century...

Why International Bias Has Caused Few Opportunities For Australian Musical Theatre Creators And Performers

Posted by Trevor Jones | 4th Jul 2017 | Australia, Musical Theatre

Last week’s nominations for the Helpmann Awards, which recognize the performing arts in Australia,...

‘Who Knew the World Could be so Awful’: Alice Birch’s Apocalyptic Feminist Theatre

Posted by Sandra D'urso | 3rd Jul 2017 | Australia, Theatre and Gender

Alice Birch’s production, Revolt. She said. Revolt again., currently on at Melbourne’s Malthouse...

Boylesque Redefines Burlesque and Masculinity

Posted by Gina Robilliard | 18th Jun 2017 | Australia, LGBTQ+ Theatre

Burlesque is an art form that has polarized Western society for centuries. In his 1991 publication...

“Only Heaven Knows” Brings 1940s Queer Sydney Roaring Back to Life

Posted by Leigh Boucher | 7th Jun 2017 | Australia, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Melbourne, Musical Theatre

Only Heaven Knows, a musical about a young Melbourne man who discovers the queer delights of...

“The Book of Exodus – Part I” at Theatre Works

Posted by Sarah Balkin | 6th Jun 2017 | Adaptation, Australia, Melbourne, Theatre for Young Audiences

Retelling the Biblical Book of Exodus through the eyes of children The biblical Book of Exodus...

“Mr Burns”: Post-Apocalyptic Simpsons Musical Shows Theatre’s Future Is Dazzling

Posted by Bryoni Trezise | 24th May 2017 | Adaptation, Australia

There has been a nuclear event. The grid is down. The radio is out. Most are dead, and those who...

“Black Is The New White” Gives The Comedy Of Manners An Irreverent Makeover

Posted by Huw Griffiths | 14th May 2017 | Australia, Sydney

Black is the New White is Nakkiah Lui’s latest play, following last year’s well-received Kill the...

Lies, Monsters and Kate Mulvany’s Intensely Human Portrayal of Richard III

Posted by Christian Griffiths | 8th May 2017 | Australia, Melbourne, Theatre and Disability

As we all know, the first line of Shakespeare’s Richard 3 reads, “Now is the winter of our...

The Great Australian Plays: Sex, Poetry and “The Chapel Perilous”

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 7th May 2017 | Australia, Playwriting

When she died in 2002, The Age hailed Dorothy Hewett as “the grande dame of Australian literature”...

Good Friday Essay: Passion Plays and The Ethics of Spectacular Violence

Posted by Paul Megna | 16th Apr 2017 | Australia, Worldwide

In 1985 Filipino carpenter Ruben Enaje fell three storeys and remarkably, survived. To give thanks...

#Not Pho Your Entertainment

Posted by May Tran | 10th Apr 2017 | Australia, Musical Theatre, Theatre and Politics, Vietnam

Over the past year and a half, May Tran (writer, student and professional procrastinator of...

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The Great Australian Plays: Williamson, Hibberd, And The Better Angels Of Our Country’s Nature

Ancestry, Storytelling, And Fighting Racism With Rap

Sydney Festival Review: Beckett’s “All That Fall”

Patricia Cornelius’ “Big Heart” Exposes Hypocrisy In Tale Of Multicultural Adoption

“Laser Beak Man” Busts The Fourth Wall And Blows Minds With Superheroic Puppetry

From Elvis to Cobain, “The Sound of Falling Stars” Revives Those Dead Before Their Time

Melbourne’s La Mama Demonstrates The Value of Independent Theatre

50 Years of Melbourne’s La Mama Theatre

Vivacious and Unapologetic, “The Rover’s” 17th-century Feminism is Painfully Pertinent

Why International Bias Has Caused Few Opportunities For Australian Musical Theatre Creators And Performers

‘Who Knew the World Could be so Awful’: Alice Birch’s Apocalyptic Feminist Theatre

Boylesque Redefines Burlesque and Masculinity

“Only Heaven Knows” Brings 1940s Queer Sydney Roaring Back to Life

“The Book of Exodus – Part I” at Theatre Works

“Mr Burns”: Post-Apocalyptic Simpsons Musical Shows Theatre’s Future Is Dazzling

“Black Is The New White” Gives The Comedy Of Manners An Irreverent Makeover

Lies, Monsters and Kate Mulvany’s Intensely Human Portrayal of Richard III

The Great Australian Plays: Sex, Poetry and “The Chapel Perilous”

Good Friday Essay: Passion Plays and The Ethics of Spectacular Violence

#Not Pho Your Entertainment

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