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theatre December 13, 2025
Circa artistic director Yaron Lifschitz
For Yaron Lifschitz, artistic director of Circa, theatre is an incandescent encounter between performers and their audience.
opera December 6, 2025
For director Constantine Costi, all the world’s a stage, whether it’s an opera production or a porridge-making competition in a Scottish village.
theatre November 29, 2025
Belvoir’s minimalist King Lear features Colin Friels as a curiously energetic lead in a production propped up by captivating performances.
theatre November 22, 2025
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Sarah Goodes’ production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? adds a vicious new spin to Edward Albee’s portrait of a nightmare marriage.
theatre October 18, 2025
Anne-Louise Sarks’ production of Daphne du Maurier’s subversive Rebecca swaps melodrama for an exploration of subjectivity.
theatre October 4, 2025
Artistic director Petra Kalive
State Theatre Company South Australia’s artistic director, Petra Kalive, brings seldom-heard voices to her imminent first season.
theatre September 20, 2025
Carissa Licciardello and Elsie Yager’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando for Belvoir is most rewarding where it takes the most risk.
theatre September 6, 2025
Kirsty Marillier’s play Destiny captures both the menace of South Africa’s apartheid regime and the joyous energy it sought to stifle.
theatre September 6, 2025
On the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Hisashi Inoue’s great postwar play The Face of Jizo recounts a horrific event with profound humanity.
theatre August 30, 2025
Sydney Theatre Company’s adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley is an entertaining two hours that comes with a geniunely unexpected twist.
theatre August 23, 2025
Independent collective Pony Cam took on Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard to make a work about artists as a vanishing class in today’s Australia.
