Newtown’s New Theatre concluded its New Direction program with two fast paced cutting edge plays that take a hard hitting, confronting look at some of the different ways life can be lived in contemporary society.

The evening started with German

Master chef of the comic twist, and sometimes legal eagle, Tony Laumberg whips up a comic storm with his new play, ‘Undercover Lawyer’.

‘Undercover Lawyer’ sees the return of the playwright’s most popular characters, the ever feuding St Ives couple,

The current Double Bill at Werrington’s intimate Henry Lawson Theatre, Rhonda Hancock’s ‘Catnips’ and Christopher Johnson’s ‘The Dog Logs’ is an animal lovers delight and a crowd pleaser.

The plays are celebrations of the colourful and distinctive personalities of our

They called it ‘The Big One’. A few minutes after midnight on Good Friday, 24 March 1989, an environmental disaster occurred the consequences of which are still felt today. When a massive Exxon tanker spilled its cargo of crude oil

Australian playwright Sam Atwell’s play ‘The Chekhov Term’, the second play in the New Theatre’s current New Directions program, is a contemporary four hander capturing four young people Alex, Jo, Anna and Rire at the prime of their lives, doing

American playwright Mark St. Germain’s drama ‘The God Committee’, similar in style to Reginald Rose’s classic 1956 play ‘Twelve Angry Men’, is the current production playing at Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre.

Both these plays feature a group of people, comprising very

Newtown’s New Theatre started its annual New Directions program on the front foot with its production of ‘Crooked’, a meaty play by young American playwright Catherine Trieschmann.

In ‘Crooked’, Trieschmann captures her main character, fourteen years old Laney in the

Are you in the mood to see something very left field, a bit disturbing and even more outrageous? Then the new offering at the Newtown Theatre, young Polish playwright Dorota Maslowska’s debut play, ‘A Couple Of Poor. Polish-Speaking Romanians’ (translation

The subject of British-Jamaican playwright Debbie Tucker Green’s debut play ‘Dirty Butterfly’, first performed in London’s Soho theatre in 2003, is domestic violence and its devastating repercussions.

Green tackles her subject from a very different angle. Amelia and Jason are

The inner city Genesian Theatre Company’s current production is a revival of leading Australian playwright David Williamson’s confronting 1995 play ‘Dead White Males’.

Similar to British playwright David Hare, Williamson is a playwright who likes to take on important issues.