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Belvoir St Theatre's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Photo: Brett Boardman.
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead review: a long slog with flashes of brilliance

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a bloated beast of a play – but not without…

Sting in The Last Ship. Photo: Mark Senior.
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The Last Ship review: Sting performs his 'deeply personal' musical in Brisbane

Sting’s childhood-inspired musical The Last Ship is a beautifully crafted, well-realised story of defiance tempered with hope.

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The Farmy Farm

The Farmy Farm has more going on than a chook in a worm farm!

A Transgender Woman on the Internet, Crying. Photo: Brett Boardman.
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A Transgender Woman on the Internet, Crying review: dark, bold and playfully queer

Cassie Hamilton isn't afraid to take risks in A Transgender Woman on the Internet, Crying.

Kyle Stephens of The Theatrical Gaffer. Photo: Christopher Elder.
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Theatre designers are being disrespected – and I should know

Design as a craft and a storytelling discipline seems to be quietly disappearing from Australian independent theatre.

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Festivals & Programs

Woodend Winter Arts Festival

Woodend Winter Arts Festival

The Woodend Winter Arts Festival unites world‑class musicians, performers and thought‑leaders for four days of music, ideas and creativity this…

Stage Kiss at Sydney's New Theatre. Photo: Supplied.
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Stage Kiss review: a 'wonderfully funny' and very meta farce at Sydney's New Theatre

With layered writing and strong performances, Stage Kiss is whip smart.

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Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company

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From set design to touring, how can we make theatre more environmentally sustainable?

The majority of Australian theatre-makers are concerned about climate change but most feel the issue receives limited attention in the…

Daniela Farinacci on the set of MTC's 2026 production, West Gate. The actor, playing a grieving widow, sits in a reproduction of a 1970's kitchen surrounded by the wreckage of the collapsed West Gate Bridge.
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West Gate review: a flawed but powerful play about the loss of 35 lives

The collapse of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge is dramatised in this new MTC production by playwright Dennis McIntosh and director…

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