It feels entirely appropriate that D’arcy Niland’s novel SHIRALEE opened in the same year, as the premiere production of Ray Lawler’s play The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Both works were very Australian, in its sense of the vast …
Melanie Tait is one of our finest playwrights, writing gently observant theatre featuring well drawn, easily recognisable characters.
Tait’s play THE APPLETON LADIES’ POTATO RACE was commissioned by Kirribilli’s Ensemble Theatre and first performed in 2019, the year in which …
Photographer: Phil Erbacher.
4 MINUTES 12 SECONDS is the title not the running time of this one hour and twenty minutes of coruscating contemporary theatre.
Frightening and frequently funny, James Fritz’s forensically layered play peels away at the pernicious phenomenon …
How refreshing to be accosted by five vibrant, orange-clad airline steward-ees in the crowded, pre-show foyer and seating of the Ensemble Theatre.
It makes you want to order a drink and buckle up.
Such was the riotous atmosphere of the …
Hello wall! Talking to her kitchen wall the opening scenes of this production of SHIRLEY VALENTINE set the stage for the life affirming journey that is her inimitable story.
Shirley Valentine the ordinary housewife from Liverpool opens with her overwhelmed …
’Deewane’ in Hindi translates as ‘crazy or mad about’ and the Riverside National Theatre of Parramatta performance of Azan Ahmed’s play DAYTIME DEEWANE delivers all the high energy, movement and music suggested by the title.
It’s set in a …
For a great night of musical theatre get to Hornsby Musical Society’s production of City Of Angels. The Tony Award winning musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel, and a book by Larry Gelbart is not …
ntroduction sabotaged by an incapacitated Meow Meow forewarns the audience about this captivating production. An entertaining, thoughtful and amusing show subsequently enthrals the audience at the Belvoir Street Theatre. The diverse elements of the performance are tied together by …
Newtown’s New Theatre has announced the winner of The Silver Gull Play Award for 2025. The winner is Steven Vidler for his play THE VANYA VARIATIONS.
The Silver Gull Play Award is a competition open to NSW and ACT-based writers …
In Carol Dance’s new play SEED HUNTERS, Bob is a student ijn Peking. China is opening to the world, post Mao, and international students have arrived. When a beautiful South American student attempts to seduce him and he encounters …