Lillian Hellman’s play THE CHILDREN’S HOUR (1934) follows the story of Martha and Karen who run a boarding school for young girls. Mary, a troubled and particularly difficult student, overhears a conversation she wasn’t meant to be privy to. …

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SONG OF FIRST DESIRE upstairs at Belvoir Street Theatre. Production photography by Brett Boardman

SONG OF FIRST DESIRE is a fitful play that dips in and out of time frames and between countries. Written by Australia’s Andrew Bovell in …

Above: one of several video content interludes during the show’s costume changes. Featured image: Joyce in magazine dress mode. Images from the audience: Paul Nolan.

We all need a bit of Maynge in our lives.

Not only for drag …

Above : theatre legend Nancye Hayes plays Leo’s very independent grandmother Vera in Amy Herzog’s play 4000 Miles. Photo Daniel Boud.

About half way through American playwright Amy Herzog’s play 4000 MILES my companion whispers in my ear, sighing, ‘…

Casting for stage plays should be sensible, but right now in Australia sense has been diminished by sensitivity policies. An actor inherently appropriates his or her character’s culture. She or he must. That’s the job. But now “cultural appropriation” policy …

Ray Lawler’s classic play SUMMER OF THE SEVENTEENTH DOLL was first performed at the Union Theatre in Melbourne on the 28th November 1955. The play is considered to be the most significant in Australian theatre history, and a “turning …