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Simon Burke gives a bold, brave performance of a cross-dressing elocution teacher who lives in Double Bay in the 1970s, in this new production from Griffin Theatre.
Shen Yun is one of Falun Gong’s culture outreach organisations. It markets its dance performances as a revival of ‘traditional Chinese culture’.
Melbourne’s Red Stitch is reviving Summer and the Seventeenth Doll and its two prequels, together for the first time since 1985.
This new play at Melbourne Theatre Company is a sharp, often darkly comic examination of conformity and resistance within the modern corporate structure.
Around a familiar outdoor table, Black Light at Malthouse Theatre tells an intergenerational story of four First Nations women.
Playwright Larry Kramer has been a polarising figure in queer politics. But this production of The Normal Heart in Sydney feels more urgent than ever.
Master clown and French theatre guru Philippe Gaulier has died at 82. His influence will live on in generations of artists from New Zealand.
In the play Cowbois, rugged individuality and hyper masculinity are challenged and eventually replaced by joy, freedom and resistance.
Noongar dance can restore connections between those who live in Perth and the sharks who swim in the city’s river.
One of the most critically acclaimed playwrights of our age, Tom Stoppard, has died at 88. He assumed his audience was as well read and inquisitive as he was.
Unfortunately, despite an impressive cast and some outstanding performances, this King Lear is as exciting as boiled cabbage.
This year’s OzAsia festival demonstrated both the strength and the fragility of cultural translation
Sammy J’s Fiasco gives a model forr non-Indigenous artists making theatre about our collective histories by working alongside First Nations people.
Cory Taylor’s 2016 book Dying: A Memoir spoke of her cancer diagnosis and impending death. Now it’s on stage with the Melbourne Theatre Company.
Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette is given a significant new production from State Opera South Australia, West Australian Opera and the Irish National Opera.
Meow Meow’s The Red Shoes is her latest interpretation of a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, told through the story of a showgirl.
The classic 1955 D’Arcy Niland novel has been dapted by Kate Mulvany and directed by Jessica Arthur for the Sydney Theatre Company
This triple bill from William Forsythe, Jerome Robbins and Stephanie Lake is quite unlike anything the Australian Ballet has done before.
First published in 1928, Virgina Woolf’s Orlando throws gender politics into the air. A new adaptation fails to define a problem for Orlando to push back against.
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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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Lecturer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate in Dance and Dance History Tutor, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Performing Arts, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW
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Honorary Research Associate, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate in the History Program, La Trobe University; The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Lecturer, Creative Arts, Flinders University
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Research Officer, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University
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Professor and Academic Director (Indigenous Research), La Trobe University