“Stay Woke” Reminded Me of The Importance of Telling Stories of Injustice by Those Most Affected by It
Review: Stay Woke, by Aran Thangaratnam, directed by Bridget Balodis. The lingering smell of...
by Niro Kandasamy | May 17, 2022 | Australia, LGBTQ Theatre, Review | 0
Review: Stay Woke, by Aran Thangaratnam, directed by Bridget Balodis. The lingering smell of...
by David O'Donnell | May 14, 2021 | Interview, LGBTQ Theatre, New Zealand, Playwriting, Theatre and Gender, Theatre for Young Audiences | 0
The Glitter Garden by George Fowler and Lori Leigh. Directed by Lori Leigh. Circa Theatre,...
by David O'Donnell | Oct 9, 2020 | Acting, New Zealand, Russia, Theatre and Age | 0
by Niro Kandasamy | May 17, 2022 | Australia, LGBTQ Theatre, Review
Review: Stay Woke, by Aran Thangaratnam, directed by Bridget Balodis. The lingering smell of...
Read Moreby Julian Meyrick | May 3, 2022 | Australia, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics
Why did 46.8% of Americans vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election? Why did approximately 2,000...
Read Moreby Julian Meyrick | Apr 8, 2022 | Australia, Directing, Essay, Theatre and Politics
In 1943, Dolia Ribush, a Russian-speaking Latvian theatre director of medium height and...
Read Moreby William Peterson | Apr 5, 2022 | Australia, LGBTQ Theatre, Musical Theatre, Review
Review: Watershed: The Death of Dr. Duncan, directed by Neil Armfield for the Adelaide Festival....
Read Moreby Gabrielle Edelstein | Apr 3, 2022 | Adaptation, Australia, Directing, Review
In a speech to the United Kingdom’s House of Commons on March 9, Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
Read Moreby William Peterson | Mar 26, 2022 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Age, Transmedia
Review: Sex and Death_ and the Internet, directed by Samara Hersch My last experience as an...
Read Moreby Leah Mercer | Mar 20, 2022 | Australia, Devised Theatre, Festivals, Review
Review: The Smallest Stage, by Kim Crotty for Perth Festival A small, white rectangle taped onto...
Read Moreby Jonathan W. Marshall | Feb 18, 2022 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names of people...
Read Moreby Claire French | Feb 7, 2022 | Australia, Devised Theatre, Review
At this year’s Fringe World Festival in Perth, the “theatre of the real” is everywhere: theatre,...
Read Moreby Kate Maguire-Rosier | Feb 6, 2022 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Politics
Review: Jurrungu Ngan-ga, directed by Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain for Marrugeku Jurrungu...
Read Moreby Gabrielle Edelstein | Feb 5, 2022 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Art
When was the last time you looked at a stranger in the eyes? Really looked, for an uncomfortably...
Read Moreby Sally Breen | Nov 10, 2021 | Australia, Playwriting, Review
Review: Return to the Dirt, written by Steve Pirie and directed by Lee Lewis, Queensland Theatre I...
Read Moreby Helen Trenos | Oct 20, 2021 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
In 1937, George Orwell witnessed a boy whipping a horse. This was a catalyst for his novel Animal...
Read Moreby Gillian Arrighi and Clare Irvine | Oct 18, 2021 | Australia, Covid-19, Theatre and Politics
Australia’s performing arts sector has long been recognized as an ecosystem. It is a community of...
Read Moreby Kate Cantrell and David Burton | Oct 14, 2021 | Adaptation, Australia, Essay, Theatre and Politics
The stage adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has opened in Brisbane. Charlie, like...
Read Moreby Kathryn Kelly | Sep 6, 2021 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Politics
The play Don’s Party premiered on August 11, 1971 at Carlton’s Pram Factory, home to the radical...
Read Moreby Lara Cox | Jul 30, 2021 | Australia, Avignon 2021, France, Immersive Theatre, Review
One of the highlights of this year’s Avignon Festival was Boxing Shadows, written especially by...
Read Moreby Heidi Norman and Jennifer Newman | Jul 20, 2021 | Australia, Review, Sydney
Wesley Enoch’s exuberant return to the Sydney Theatre Company to direct African-American...
Read Moreby Robert White | Jul 7, 2021 | Australia, Books
John Bell’s new book Some Achieve Greatness is but the latest to use Shakespeare’s works to...
Read Moreby David O'Donnell | May 14, 2021 | Interview, LGBTQ Theatre, New Zealand, Playwriting, Theatre and Gender, Theatre for Young Audiences
The Glitter Garden by George Fowler and Lori Leigh. Directed by Lori Leigh. Circa Theatre,...
Read Moreby Liza-Mare Syron | May 13, 2021 | Australia, Dramaturgy, Review
Review: Dogged, directed by Declan Greene. Griffin Theatre Company in association with Force...
Read Moreby David O'Donnell | May 6, 2021 | Documentary Theatre, New Zealand, Review, Theatre and Politics
Transmission written by Stuart McKenzie. Directed by Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie. 20...
Read Moreby Mahsa Foroughi | May 1, 2021 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Film
Simon Stone made a contemporary version of Medea by radically adapting Euripides’s Greek tragedy...
Read Moreby Jonathan W. Marshall | Mar 24, 2021 | Australia, Immersive Theatre, Review, Theatre and Decolonization
Review: Galup, by Ian Wilkes and Poppy van Oorde-Grainger, Perth Festival with Same Drum and...
Read Moreby Leah Mercer | Mar 17, 2021 | Australia, Participatory Theatre, Review
Review: Whistleblower, directed by Arielle Gray, Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd, and Tim Watts. The Last Great...
Read Moreby Vanessa Berry | Mar 14, 2021 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Sydney
Playing Beatie Bow is the coming-of-age story of the teenage Abigail, who, from her home in...
Read Moreby Leah Mercer | Mar 9, 2021 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Russian Theatre Abroad
Review: The Cherry Orchard, directed by Clare Watson. Black Swan State Theatre Company for the...
Read Moreby Chandra Salgado Kent | Mar 4, 2021 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Gender
Review: Whale Fall, written by Ian Sinclair and directed by Melissa Cantwell for The Kabuki Drop....
Read Moreby Shiya Lu | Mar 3, 2021 | Australia, Interview, Musical Theatre, Sydney
From Beatlemania in the sixties to 2010 boy band sensation One Direction, to today’s global...
Read Moreby Daniel Johnston | Feb 26, 2021 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Art
Wrapped in COVID-Safe vigilance, Australian theatre has cautiously begun to welcome back...
Read Moreby David O'Donnell | Feb 25, 2021 | Dramaturgy, New Zealand, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics
Company Kamupene Written and performed by Jamie McCaskill. Presented by Tikapa Productions and The...
Read Moreby Justin Ellis | Feb 3, 2021 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Sydney, Sydney Theatre Festival 2021
The Rise and Fall of Saint George is a story about place, belonging, and community that taps into...
Read Moreby Kate Maguire-Rosier | Feb 2, 2021 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Sydney, Sydney Theatre Festival 2021
Review: Humans 2.0, directed by Yaron Lifschitz, Circa at Sydney Festival The black circular stage...
Read Moreby Kate Maguire-Rosier | Jan 29, 2021 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Sydney, Sydney Theatre Festival 2021
Review: The Last Season, directed and choreographed by Danielle Micich, Force Majeure at Sydney...
Read Moreby Huw Griffiths | Dec 24, 2020 | Australia, LGBTQ Theatre, Review, Sydney
Review: Sydney Theatre Company’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, directed by Kip Williams Australian...
Read Moreby Anthony Uhlmann | Nov 13, 2020 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Age
Review: Cursed! by Kodie Bedford, directed by Jason Klarwein Tucked away at the back of the...
Read Moreby Jacinthe Flore, Averyl Gaylor, and Natalie Hendry | Nov 11, 2020 | Australia, Covid-19, Essay
The arts industry is among the most devastated by the pandemic. Artists and arts workers often...
Read Moreby Leigh Boucher | Nov 9, 2020 | Australia, Playwriting, Review, Sydney
Review: Wonnangatta by Angus Cerini, directed by Jessica Arthur, Sydney Theatre Company Theatre is...
Read Moreby Hilary Halba and Stuart Young | Oct 25, 2020 | Festivals, New Zealand, Transcultural Collaborations
In September 2019, the UNESCO Cities of Literature Short Play Festival took place in Dunedin, New...
Read Moreby Leigh Boucher | Oct 14, 2020 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Politics
Review: Wonnangatta by Angus Cerini, directed by Jessica Arthur, Sydney Theatre Company Theatre is...
Read Moreby David O'Donnell | Oct 9, 2020 | Acting, New Zealand, Russia, Theatre and Age
In June 2017 the eminent New Zealand actor Dame Kate Harcourt celebrated her 90th birthday at...
Read Moreby Peter Tregear | Oct 6, 2020 | Australia, Covid-19, Theatre and Opera
Anyone looking for evidence of just how devastating the COVID-19 pandemic has been to Australia’s...
Read Moreby Hilary Halba and David O’Donnell with David Hutchinson, Rua McCallum and Martyn Roberts | Sep 18, 2020 | Devised Theatre, New Zealand, Theatre and Science, Transcultural Collaborations
In the era of Covid 19, when our theatres have been forced to close throughout Aotearoa/New...
Read Moreby International Online Theatre Festival | Aug 27, 2020 | Australia, Covid-19, Interview, IOTF 2020: Archives, Theatre and Pandemic: Asynchronous Discussion Panel at IOTF2020
The Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company is the Australia’s biggest Aboriginal-led theatre company. Yirra...
Read Moreby Julian Meyrick, Julianne Schultz, and Justin O'Connor | Aug 19, 2020 | Australia, Covid-19, News
Written by Julian Meyrick, Julianne Schultz, and Justin O’Connor National crises, like the...
Read Moreby David Geary | Jul 6, 2020 | Canada, Dramaturgs’ Network: Invisible Diaries, Dramaturgy, Essay, New Zealand, Theatre and Decolonization
I’ve hit the wall. The big move is over but moving the “small stuff” all day reminded...
Read Moreby David Geary | Jul 4, 2020 | Canada, Covid-19, Dramaturgs’ Network: Invisible Diaries, Dramaturgy, Essay, New Zealand
It’s TRIV NIGHT! Some TV People we know have kept the community vibe going by organizing online...
Read Moreby John Smythe | Jun 16, 2020 | Covid-19, New Zealand, News
Zoom became the tool-de-jour for work meetings and social interaction with family and friends – and its potential for creating Lockdown Theatre was immediately explored, using either Facebook Live or YouTube as platforms for the recorded shows.
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