“My Sister Jill:” Patricia Cornelius’ New Play is a Blistering Post-War Social and Cultural Commentary
Emerging from one of Australia’s most enduring and significant theatrical partnerships between...
by Sarah Austin | Oct 25, 2023 | Adaptation, Australia, Review | 0
Emerging from one of Australia’s most enduring and significant theatrical partnerships between...
by David O'Donnell | Jun 28, 2023 | Education, New Zealand, News, Oceania | 0
Due to the current financial crisis in the tertiary education sector in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the...
by Sarah Austin | Oct 25, 2023 | Adaptation, Australia, Review
Emerging from one of Australia’s most enduring and significant theatrical partnerships between...
Read Moreby Russell Fewster | Oct 5, 2023 | Adaptation, Australia, Review
The Dictionary of Lost Words follows Esme as she navigates the patriarchal world of Victorian...
Read Moreby Huw Griffiths | Sep 28, 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...
Read Moreby Sarah Austin | Aug 29, 2023 | Australia, Melbourne, Review, Theatre and Age
Bloom, the new Australian musical produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company, is proudly billed by...
Read Moreby Huw Griffiths | Aug 5, 2023 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Politics
Review: On The Beach, directed by Kip Williams. When Nevil Shute wrote his 1957 novel On the...
Read Moreby David O'Donnell | Jun 28, 2023 | Education, New Zealand, News, Oceania
Due to the current financial crisis in the tertiary education sector in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the...
Read Moreby Sarah Austin | Jun 25, 2023 | Australia, Festivals, Melbourne, Review, Theatre and Decolonization
Rising has just completed its second run across Melbourne. The newest addition to the city’s...
Read Moreby Camilla Nelson | Apr 29, 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...
Read Moreby Aisha Malik | Mar 20, 2023 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender
Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl and follows her to India. Boy has a transformative...
Read Moreby Kate Hunter | Feb 17, 2023 | Australia, Melbourne, Review, Theatre and Science
Deep in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia, the town of Wittenoom lies empty,...
Read Moreby Helen Trenos | Jan 11, 2023 | Australia, Design, Directing, Review, Theatre and Gender
Review: D*ck Pics in the Garden of Eden, written and directed by Jeffrey Jay Fowler, The Last...
Read Moreby Niro Kandasamy | Dec 9, 2022 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
Review: The Jungle and the Sea, directed by Eamon Flack and S. Shakthidharan, Belvoir. After the...
Read Moreby Penelope Crossley | Dec 7, 2022 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
Review: RBG: Of Many, One, directed by Priscilla Jackman, Sydney Theatre Company Writing a play...
Read Moreby Gabrielle Edelstein | Nov 25, 2022 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Sydney
Review: The Tempest, directed by Kip Williams, Sydney Theatre Company. The Tempest, first...
Read Moreby Sarah Austin | Oct 27, 2022 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Disability, Theatre for Young Audiences
Review: When the World Turns, by Polyglot Theatre and Oily Cart When the World Turns is a...
Read Moreby Miriama Young | Sep 20, 2022 | Australia, Design, Musical Theatre, Review, Transmedia
Review: My Self in That Moment, directed by Tamara Saulwick for Chamber Made. In his visionary...
Read Moreby Michelle Arrow | Sep 19, 2022 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Theatre and Disability
Review: Tell Me I’m Here, directed by Leticia Cáceres, Belvoir. Released in 1991, the memoir Tell...
Read Moreby Lara Cox | Sep 15, 2022 | Interview, Oceania, Producing, Theatre and Decolonization
On June 13, 2022, I spoke with Guillaume Gay, who is operational and artistic director of the...
Read Moreby Huw Griffiths | Sep 13, 2022 | Acting, Adaptation, Australia, Review
Review: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, directed by Kip Williams for Sydney Theatre Company...
Read Moreby Chris Thompson | Aug 3, 2022 | Acting, Australia, Melbourne, Musical Theatre, Review
Review: Future. Joy. Club., Finucane & Smith The theatre of the occasion starts with a...
Read Moreby Vanessa Smith | Jul 29, 2022 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender
Review: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, directed by Jessica Arthur for the Sydney Theatre Company...
Read Moreby Sarah Balkin | Jul 16, 2022 | Australia, LGBTQ Theatre, Melbourne, Review, Transmedia
Review: Set Piece, by Nat Randall and Anna Breckon, for Rising. Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set...
Read Moreby Thuy Tran | Jun 29, 2022 | Australia, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences, Transmedia
Review: Anything & Everything, Platform Arts, infinity ensemble for Rising. Anything &...
Read Moreby Craig Dalton | Jun 23, 2022 | Australia, Musical Theatre, News
With nine Broadway musicals currently playing on Australian stages – and a further three set to...
Read Moreby William Peterson | May 30, 2022 | Australia, Design, Review, Theatre and Science
Review: Cathedral, directed by Shannon Rush for the State Theatre Company of South Australia...
Read Moreby Cherine Fahd | May 27, 2022 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Gender
Review: Son of Byblos, directed by Anna Jahjah for Brave New World Theatre Company The downstairs...
Read Moreby 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 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Theatre and Film
Simon Stone made a contemporary version of Medea by radically adapting Euripides’s Greek tragedy...
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