The “Dancer’s Body” Is Fat: Force Majeure’s “Nothing To Lose”
The fear and loathing of fat is such a ubiquitous part of contemporary Western culture that it...
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Australia
The Amateur’s Age Of Unriddling: “Finnegans Wake” On Stage
Seventy-five years after publication, James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake may finally be starting to make...
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Theatre Reviewing Is A Responsible Job–And It Requires Care
Is there any job other than theatre critic where so little knowledge can carry so much weight? If...
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Western Sydney Meets The City In Nakkiah Lui’s “Kill The Messenger”
Last week I went to the theatre. Unusual? No. But I say this because this event was real theatre...
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A National Theatre Of Australia Is Needed, And It’s Time
Sociologist Max Weber once called politics “the slow boring of hard boards”. If he had been in the...
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Q And A With Author Of “The Tribe”: Michael Mohammed Ahmad
This week, as part of Sydney Festival’s Bankstown: Live program, Michael Mohammed Ahmad will...
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Every Detail Counts In “Wot? No Fish!!” At Sydney Festival
During an artist talk just an hour before performing Wot? No Fish!! on Saturday at the Sydney...
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Staging Power: David Williamson’s Portrait Of Citizen Murdoch
The Melbourne Theatre Company’s (MTC) production of David Williamson’s 2013 play Rupert has...
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Pinchgut’s “Iphigénie En Tauride”: A Work Of Pure Theatrical Magic
In any Opera History 101 course, Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) is cited as one of the...
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Can Keene/Taylor’s New Play “Dreamers” Keep Us From Despair?
More than ten years after the last production by the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project (KTTP),...
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Striking, Original Theatre: Heiner Goebbels At The Melbourne Festival
When the Mountain Changed its Clothing, the Heiner Goebbels-directed show currently on at the...
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Big hART’s “Hipbone Sticking Out”: Truthful And Ambitious Theatre
Hipbone Sticking Out, the Big hART production now playing at the Melbourne Festival, begins in...
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“The Complexity Of Belonging” At The Melbourne Festival–Reviewed
I’ve often lamented that choosing to study the most complex organisms on Earth was the dumbest...
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“Black Diggers”: Out Of The Trenches At The Brisbane Festival
The performance space in which Wesley Enoch‘s play Black Diggers is being performed at the...
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Spectacle and Tradition at the 2014 Lincoln Center Festival
In 2014, Marcina Zaccaria wrote about The Lincoln Center Festival, including productions of...
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Lachlan Philpott on the Flux in Australian Programming
Australian playwright and Fulbright scholar, Lachlan Philpott, writes about the socio-cultural...
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Amanda Macri on the Need for Storytellers: New Playwriting in Australia
Amanda Macri, General Manager at Playwriting Australia, writes about the broad range of resilient...
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Anthea Williams on Belvoir’s Important New Season
Anthea Williams, Associate Director-Literary at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney, writes about...
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Sydney Theatre Guide
As NITEnews publishes our Spotlight: Sydney, we’ve created a field-guide to the...
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Cristin Kelly Goes from Expat to Expert in 100 Days
American dramaturg, Cristin Kelly, reflects on her personal project, 100 Aussie Plays in 100 Days,...
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