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.
Janet Anderson, as trans-woman Rosie in Overflow, struggles to confront and control the emotions overwhelming her as she seeks refuge from a threatening world in the women’s bathroom. A mesmerising performance!
Brain-child of Stephen Carnell, the popular DeadHouse: Tales of Sydney Morgue, returns for a third season featuring Razor Gang Wars: The Rise of Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh.
Tell Me I’m Here, at Belvoir Street Theatre, is based upon Anne Deveson’s personal and passionate account of her son’s battle with schizophrenia, her struggle to find help for him and the chaos his condition wrought on her own and her family’s lives.
Much Ado at the Flight Path Theatre in Marrickville is well-worth seeing for its quirky transplantation of Renaissance court conduct into the modern and equally demanding code of effortless cool.
In The One, Vanessa Bates takes the now familiar theme of cultural belonging and creates a potent mix of exuberant comedy and moving insight into the challenges of being Eurasian in contemporary Australia.
Ray Lawlor’s characterisation of the four doomed characters in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll is complex and their changing relationship nuanced, and the four actors in the Genesian Theatre's iteration fully meet the challenge.
Lachlan Philpott’s M. Rock has something important to say about our compulsively label-driven world and says it in a very funny and sweetly eccentric way.
Terrain can also be read as an affirmation of the survival, and the resurgence, of Aboriginal culture and the very real possibility that ancient ways may yet protect the land from the ravages of climate change.
While the proliferation of digital theatre during Covid had live theatre anxious over its future the technologically tuned-in Coil offers the theatrical equivalent to the hybrid car. Coil is a live-cinema event, that is, a mix of live performance and screen action, and while hilarious is, at the same time, elegiac in mood.
In Hercule Poirot’s First Case, be prepared for a new, pared-down, fast-paced adaptation of Agatha Christie’s first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles under the vigorous direction of Tom Massey.
You may hesitate to leave your warm home on a very cold evening to go to the theatre but you will be well rewarded if the production is Belvoir Street’s Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes. Playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s engaging script charting one young woman’s reversal of the embedded gender power imbalance underlying our everyday transactions is superbly performed and stylishly staged.
Alana Valentine’s Wayside Bride, a warm tribute to the work of the Reverend Ted Noffs and the Wayside Chapel, is a moving affirmation of the power of acceptance to transform human lives.
In A is for Apple the battleground is the long-established Jewish patriarchal traditions that shape the behaviour, and the role in the Judaic community, of Jewish womanhood. It ends with a passionate, deeply moving appeal by the young Shoshana for new stories, new and inclusive imaginings.
Heroes of the Fourth Turning explores why individuals adhere to beliefs and ideologies and what that means for the future of humanity. As theatre it is totally engrossing.
It is a pity that Lily Hayman’s Fledgling is showing for such a short time as it offers its audience a deeply emotional, intellectually provocative, and aesthetically satisfying experience.
Carissa Licciardello’s clever adaption of Opening Night prompts the audience to realise the extent to which current perception has rejected an age or gender limitation on women’s self-development.
While Kirsty Marillier’s debut play Orange Thrower lights up the Stables’ small stage with the energy of its lovely young cast it also explores the dark side of the coming-of-age of two mixed-race South African immigrant sisters.
Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s dazzling production of all-time favourite musical A Chorus Line immediately engages the audience in an epic world of passionate hope and desperate self-doubt.
