In one research project, more than 93% of stage managers interviewed said they had ‘probably’ or ‘definitely’ experienced burnout.
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Happy Days serves as a reminder to look after our planet while we still can.
Female employees of a tech company get stuck in an elevator in Eloise Snape’s timely play about AI, corporate culture and the patriarchy.
Practical Magic 2 and an Australian horror film are among our recommendations this week.
From lights up to the production’s satisfying conclusion, Day (After Day) in the Life of the Useless is seriously funny and surprisingly moving.
Tim Curry built a career out of charismatic villains and unforgettable characters. His greatest talent, though, may have been making himself disappear inside them.
Concerns about the effect of social media on young minds mirror fears in ancient times around the way heightened drama affected audiences of public theatre.
Best known for his role in the Rocky Horror Show, Curry’s career of more than five decades was defined by extraordinary range and theatricality.
Commentary, the new play now on at State Theatre Company South Australia, is an acerbic flaying of public and private personas.
For deaf audiences, inclusion means more than being welcomed; it’s being able to attend performances with the same spontaneity and freedom as everyone else.
Shakespeare used music in a multitude of ways to delight, amuse, relax, confuse and frighten his audiences.
Where Lestat (2005) killed off the vampire musical, TV’s Lestat is resurrecting it.
The new play by award-winning playwright Jane Harrrison examines who has the authority to tell Aboriginal stories, and how they should be told.
People in prison may be uniquely placed to rethink justice and morality.
Mamet’s classic play is famous for its macho swagger. A recent production suggests the real subject was always work and power.
Both are tales set on islands where romance and mystery abound.
Count Dracula was originally a rank-breathed predator. His transformation into a tragic romantic mirrors a century of shifting attitudes about sex, gender and desire.
Around a familiar outdoor table, Black Light at Malthouse Theatre tells an intergenerational story of four First Nations women.
I track my characters from the dog-days of the pandemic to an undisclosed near future where mainstream politics has collapsed and a populist revolt is unleashed.
Performance in museums can be one way that an interest in history, and in turn wider societal issues, is cultivated from a young age.
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Researcher, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Research Affiliate, Monash University
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Lecturer in English, Australian National University
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Full Professor/CRC in Socially Engaged Theatre; Director, C-SET, University of Regina
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
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Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Lecturer, Performing Arts, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, English and Theatre Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University
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Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, The University of Melbourne
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Sessional lecturer and researcher, The University of Melbourne