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Maeve Marsden’s play lays bare what happens when love and family are politicised.
Susie Dee directs this dark and spare new play by Mary Anne Butler for Red Stitch.
This play asks: what if it was Adam who sent an inappropriate photograph to his former lover, Lilith?
The Sydney Theatre Company’s production is beautiful and affecting – but it presents a Shakespeare we wish we had, rather than the one we do.
After the roaring success of Counting and Cracking, S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack have produced another play that will captivate audiences.
In this play, RBG discusses her most famous cases and her conversations with three of the presidents who served during her 27-year term on the US Supreme Court.
In 1972, 5 women – Helen Garner, Claire Dobbin, Evelyn Krape, Yvonne Marini and Jude Kuring –spent 5 months workshopping a play. Frank, angry and explicit, it was a beacon of 1970s women’s liberation.
A collaboration between Polyglot Theatre and the UK’s Oily Cart puts an inclusive, child-led approach at its heart.
Uncle Jack Charles had a remarkable career of truth-telling across theatre, screen and books.
Based on Anne Deveson’s 1991 memoir about her son’s experience with schizophrenia, this play can be achingly sad. But it also offers hope.
Melbourne Theatre Company’s Laurinda is a smart re-framing of Alice Pung’s classic coming-of-age novel.
Finucane & Smith inject burlesque and vaudeville with witty and often confrontational political provocations.
Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set Piece explores female intimacy through the relationship between screen and stage.
The nine shows include two 2022 Tony Award nominees – and three more Broadway productions are set to open in coming months.
In this new work at Melbourne’s Rising Festival, Anything & Everything lets kids tell us how they see themselves and the world around them.
Dr George Ian Ogilvie Duncan was murdered at a gay ‘beat’ in the 1970s. His death was instrumental in South Australia’s decriminalisation of male homosexual acts.
First staged in 2008, Shane Warne: The Musical is an overwhelmingly faithful rendering of Warne’s life, staging both his triumphs and his downfalls.
David Milroy’s Panawathi Girl is a rocking, vaudevillian, politically sharp and engaging piece of Australian First Nations’ music theatre.
Belvoir’s outrageously fun new pantomime is a celebration of modern Australia.
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University
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Lecturer, Performing Arts, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor in Performance Studies, University of Sydney
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Researcher, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in Performing Arts, Adelaide University
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Professor of Theatre Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Academic Director (Indigenous Research), La Trobe University