Deadhouse Productions, purveyors of tales from the Sydney Morgue, once again both thrill and haunt their audience with their very successful immersive presentation of Juanita Nielsen: The Final Days.
As well as explaining the details of a major constitutional crisis with clarity, The Dismissal is also a stylish musical satirising Australian politics and politicians.
Under Molly Hadden’s direction, Agatha Christie’s “country house murder”, beautifully indulges our nostalgia for a partly imaginary past while allowing its major characters complex motivation.
Subtlenuance’s return production of Paul Gilchrist’s Catherine at Avignon is very relevant in the wake of Greta Thunberg’s challenge to world leaders to act on climate change.
Although not without its dramatic moments, The Weekend is deeply moving because its disclosures are low key, often almost tacit and often suggested through stage effects.
Richard Hilliar’s stage adaptation of Henry James’s much-debated novella The Turn of the Screw delights in presenting a range of Gothic horror elements while giving James’s apparent theme a more contemporary perspective.
Yuldea, the anticipated full-length performance choreographed by Frances Rings in her new role as Artistic Director of the iconic Bangarra Dance Company, is an extraordinary achievement.
The Genesian’s production of Steven Canny and John Nicholson’s hilarious re-invention of the celebrity detective Sherlock Holmes’s well-known case The Hound of the Baskervilles is a must-see.
According to author A. D. Aliwat, “When done right, a sandwich can lead to transcendence”, and so it does, or something like it, in Lynn Nottage’s very funny truck stop café play Clyde’s .
In Expiration Date, Flynn Mapplebeck and Lana Filies are trapped in a shiny lift but, more importantly, in a society which still is uneasy with women who choose profession over motherhood.
Emergence is a retrospective look at, and a celebration of, Milk Crate’s 24 years of making performance work by and with people with lived experience of homelessness, mental health issues and disability.
Jay James-Moody’s successful adaptation of On a Clear Day explores the complex themes of loss, gender, sexuality, and power amid the hilarity generated by a comedy of errors.
In Sex Magick, Nicholas Brown’s both playful and inclusive approach to sexuality and identity is enlightening and most welcome in a time obsessed with labelling.
Powerhouse Ultimo’s spectacular exhibition of queer creativity curated to coincide with Sydney WorldPride 2023, Absolutely Queer, is absolutely fabulous. Launched on February 16, excited...
The Resistance is a great option for a family outing, for lovers of interactive theatre and for those who like a rollicking comedy with a serious message.
A Broadcast Coup is both laugh-aloud funny and bitingly observant as playwright Melanie Tait examines the complex workplace issues given prominence by the 2017 #MeToo movement.
This year’s thrillingly bold revival of the Dance Clan program begins a new era as the gracious Frances Rings assumes the role of Artistic Director at Bangarra, formerly held by the iconic Stephen Page.
The award-winning Monkey Baa’s inventive, loving, and hilarious production of Edward the Emu combines two classic Australian children’s picture books by Sheena Knowles and Rod Clements.
Shopfront Arts Co-op offers emerging artists the valuable opportunity to work with a mentor and the gift of having their work exhibited or staged at an ArtsLab festival. The latest offering is fresh and energetic.
Co-written and directed by S.Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack, the deeply moving The Jungle and the Sea is prequel to the internationally successful and award-winning Counting and Cracking.
Writer and director Geoffrey Sykes has drawn on the D.H. Lawrence novel Kangaroo to create Somewhere South in which he explores Lawrence’s complex and shifting responses to a raw society and to the ancient Australian landscape.
Let the Right One In obviously speaks to contemporary times but it is the appealing age-old story of lovers frustrated by circumstance that wins our hearts.
Adapted from Favel Parrett’s award-winning novel by Julian Larnach, and sensitively directed by Ben Winspear, Past the Shallows is a haunting blend of lyricism and violence.
Adapted by Vidya Rajan and Stephen Nicolazzo from Melina Marchetta’s much-loved ’90s novel, Looking for Alibrandi is a refreshing, funny, painful and invigorating revisiting of the migratory encounter with a dominant culture.
Created by Stephen Page together with writer, Hunter Page-Lochard, and Bangarra alumni dancers and choreographers, Elma Kris and Sani Townson, Waru is Bangarra’s first dedicated work for children.
