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Michael Balfour

Michael Balfour is a Sydney-based theatre researcher and practitioner.

Michael Balfour's Latest Articles

Sydney Theatre Company. Into the Shimmering World. Image is a stage set of a farmhouse kitchen, set upon a platform with stairs up to it. Three of the four walls are missing and a man in farmer's clothes stands on the left of the platform with arms outstretched.
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Theatre review: Into the Shimmering World, Sydney Theatre Company Wharf Theatres

The brutality of the Australian landscape is evoked to tell a story of love, loss and renewal. 

Michael Balfour

Apr 8, 2024

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Theatre review: One Hour No Oil

A powerful exploration of intimacy, masculinity and economic disenfranchisement in modern day Australia.

Michael Balfour

Nov 3, 2022

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Theatre review: End of

A funny-sad monologue about jobs and family, ageing and mortality.

Michael Balfour

Oct 17, 2022

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Theatre review: Razor Gang Wars

An immersive historical drama in the 20s set in Sydney's underworld.

Michael Balfour

Sep 7, 2022

Latest Articles

AGNSW staff protest: installation view of an AGNSW exhibition featuring a shiny metal sculpture in the foreground and Aboriginal art (paintings) in the background.

Second AGNSW staff protest demands answers from Parliament on job cuts rationale

Jo Pickup

Sep 19, 2025

Dancenorth archival costumes from the 1990 production 'Desert Magic'. L-R: Michael Smith, Sabine Crompton-Ward, Tiana Lung and Marlo Benjamin. Four dancers pose playfully in brightly coloured, abstract, skin-tight costumes from four decades ago.

Dancenorth: 40 years of dancing on the shoulders of giants

Richard Watts

Sep 18, 2025

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