Sue Smith’s “Hydra:” How Love, Pain, and Sacrifice Produced an Australian Classic
Running through Hydra, the new play by Australian playwright Sue Smith, is the myth of Icarus, the...
Read MorePosted by Alastair Blanshard | 15th May 2019 | Australia, Review
Running through Hydra, the new play by Australian playwright Sue Smith, is the myth of Icarus, the...
Read MorePosted by Jane Woollard | 14th May 2019 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Gender
In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. In December 1882, Eliza...
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Moran | 15th Apr 2019 | Australia, Directing, Interview
Samara Hersch is a theatre-maker, director, and teaching artist from Australia. She received her...
Read MorePosted by Lisa Harper Campbell | 31st Mar 2019 | Acting, Australia, Review
In a new one-man production, Renato Musolino brings George Orwell’s classic novella, Animal...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 29th Mar 2019 | Australia, Festivals, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, Switzerland
Review: La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre, Adelaide Festival By chance, I happened to overhear a...
Read MorePosted by Sandra D'urso | 10th Mar 2019 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
In the world premiere production of Arbus and West, Playwright Stephen Sewell appears to be...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 10th Mar 2019 | Australia, Essay, Melbourne
“This,” the Chicago Tribune critic reminds us on the billboard of seemingly every tram stop in...
Read MorePosted by Rosalind Smith | 9th Mar 2019 | Australia, Essay, Sydney, Theatre and Gender
The dramatic life of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots is a hot topic in popular culture. Josie Rourke’s...
Read MorePosted by Vivienne Glance | 6th Mar 2019 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Transcultural Collaborations
Review: Kwongkan, Perth Festival 2019 “Kwongkan” means sand in the language of the Nyoongar...
Read MorePosted by Leigh Boucher | 5th Mar 2019 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Politics
How To Rule The World is Indigenous playwright Nakkiah Lui’s critical riposte to the intellectual...
Read MorePosted by Judith Greenaway | 26th Feb 2019 | Australia, Interview, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Transcultural Collaborations
For Mardi Gras 2019, Shaun Parker & Company will present the world premiere of KING, an...
Read MorePosted by Caroline Wake | 11th Feb 2019 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Disability
Review: Beware Of Pity, Sydney Festival 2019 Performances in the Roslyn Packer Theatre typically...
Read MorePosted by Michael Ewans | 9th Feb 2019 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Opera
Alban Berg’s Wozzeck is arguably the most important opera composed in the first half of the 20th...
Read MorePosted by Kiu-wai Chu | 9th Feb 2019 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Dance
In an age of growing mistrust, the Chinese-Australian artistic collaboration One...
Read MoreThe biggest little theatre festival in the world is all grown up! The popular staple of the Sydney...
Read MorePosted by Justine Shih Pearson | 30th Jan 2019 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Sydney
What kind of world are we leaving for our children? So goes our conversation everywhere these...
Read MorePosted by Caroline Wake | 25th Jan 2019 | Australia, Canada, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Gender
One of the most exhilarating things about Wesley Enoch’s tenure as Artistic Director of the Sydney...
Read MorePosted by Stuart Kells | 2nd Dec 2018 | Australia, Essay
It’s hard to imagine a more literary or successful author than William Shakespeare, formerly...
Read MorePosted by Clement Lee | 9th Nov 2018 | Applied Theatre, Australia, Hong Kong, Review
Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (HKREP) has been presenting the biannual International Black Box...
Read MorePosted by Laura Bisaillon | 8th Nov 2018 | Australia, Essay, Iran, Transcultural Collaborations
In the summer of 2015, I conducted fieldwork in Tehran and Qom, Iran, with a small team of...
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