“Don’s Party” at 50: An Achingly Real Portrayal of The Hapless Australian Middle-Class Voter
The play Don’s Party premiered on August 11, 1971 at Carlton’s Pram Factory, home to the radical...
Read MorePosted by Kathryn Kelly | 6th Sep 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 MorePosted by Lara Cox | 30th Jul 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 MorePosted by Heidi Norman and Jennifer Newman | 20th Jul 2021 | Australia, Review, Sydney
Wesley Enoch’s exuberant return to the Sydney Theatre Company to direct African-American...
Read MorePosted by Robert White | 7th Jul 2021 | Australia, Books
John Bell’s new book Some Achieve Greatness is but the latest to use Shakespeare’s works to...
Read MorePosted by Liza-Mare Syron | 13th May 2021 | Australia, Dramaturgy, Review
Review: Dogged, directed by Declan Greene. Griffin Theatre Company in association with Force...
Read MorePosted by Mahsa Foroughi | 1st May 2021 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Theatre and Film
Simon Stone made a contemporary version of Medea by radically adapting Euripides’s Greek tragedy...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan W. Marshall | 24th Mar 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 MorePosted by Leah Mercer | 17th Mar 2021 | Australia, Participatory Theatre, Review
Review: Whistleblower, directed by Arielle Gray, Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd, and Tim Watts. The Last Great...
Read MorePosted by Vanessa Berry | 14th Mar 2021 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Sydney
Playing Beatie Bow is the coming-of-age story of the teenage Abigail, who, from her home in...
Read MorePosted by Leah Mercer | 9th Mar 2021 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Russian Theatre Abroad
Review: The Cherry Orchard, directed by Clare Watson. Black Swan State Theatre Company for the...
Read MorePosted by Chandra Salgado Kent | 4th Mar 2021 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Gender
Review: Whale Fall, written by Ian Sinclair and directed by Melissa Cantwell for The Kabuki Drop....
Read MorePosted by Shiya Lu | 3rd Mar 2021 | Australia, Interview, Musical Theatre, Sydney
From Beatlemania in the sixties to 2010 boy band sensation One Direction, to today’s global...
Read MorePosted by Daniel Johnston | 26th Feb 2021 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Art
Wrapped in COVID-Safe vigilance, Australian theatre has cautiously begun to welcome back...
Read MorePosted by Justin Ellis | 3rd Feb 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 MorePosted by Kate Maguire-Rosier | 2nd Feb 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 MorePosted by Kate Maguire-Rosier | 29th Jan 2021 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Sydney, Sydney Theatre Festival 2021
Review: The Last Season, directed and choreographed by Danielle Micich, Force Majeure at Sydney...
Read MorePosted by Huw Griffiths | 24th Dec 2020 | Australia, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, Sydney
Review: Sydney Theatre Company’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, directed by Kip Williams Australian...
Read MorePosted by Anthony Uhlmann | 13th Nov 2020 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Age
Review: Cursed! by Kodie Bedford, directed by Jason Klarwein Tucked away at the back of the...
Read MorePosted by Jacinthe Flore, Averyl Gaylor, and Natalie Hendry | 11th Nov 2020 | Australia, Covid-19, Essay
The arts industry is among the most devastated by the pandemic. Artists and arts workers often...
Read MorePosted by Leigh Boucher | 9th Nov 2020 | Australia, Playwriting, Review, Sydney
Review: Wonnangatta by Angus Cerini, directed by Jessica Arthur, Sydney Theatre Company Theatre is...
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