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The Nightline at Malthouse Theatre. Photo: Simon Fazio.
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The Nightline review: dial into this surreal hotline and eavesdrop on sleepless strangers

Part theatre, part audio experiment, The Nightline transforms anonymous confessions into an immersive experience.

Queensland Theatre's Do Not Go Gentle. Photo: Stephen Henry.
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Do Not Go Gentle review: award-winning play makes Brisbane debut

Five residents of an aged care home relive Robert Scott's famous South Pole expedition in Queensland Theatre's Do Not Go…

Cut Chilli. Photo: Sarah Walker.
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Cut Chilli review: Australian race relations play is pacy, funny and thought-provoking

Chanturan Aran's Cut Chilli offers an important, and humorous, take on contemporary Australian race relations.

Death of a Salesman. Photo: Jeff Busby.
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Death of A Salesman review: still relevant, still brilliant

Anthony LaPaglia and Alison Whyte lead a terrific cast in Neil Armfield's winning production of Death of a Salesman.

Fiddler on the Roof. Photo: Daniel Boud.
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Fiddler on the Roof review: this joyous production pulses with life

Fiddler on the Roof, at Theatre Royal Sydney, somehow manages to be the show we need right now.

Installation view – ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste,’ NAS Gallery. Photo: Gina Fairley.
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Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste offers a new way to see a beloved artist

The National Art School delivers the near impossible: an expansive yet intimate show that shepherds fresh conversations about Margaret Olley.

Lucy Ansell in Red Stitch's Funeral Flowers. Photo: Jess D'cruze.
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Funeral Flowers review: a one-woman masterpiece at Red Stitch

Lucy Ansell delivers a knock-out performance in Funeral Flowers, a Scotsman Fringe First-winning play by British playwright Emma Dennis-Edwards.

Mackenzie turns Shakespeare's Macbeth into a teen pop star. Photo: Brett Boardman.
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Mackenzie is more than a teen-pop twist on Macbeth – it's a test for Australian theatre

By betting on Mackenzie, Yve Blake's Y2K-inspired adaptation of the Bard’s darkest tragedy, Bell Shakespeare wagers that the classics still…

Daniel Henshall in Uncle Vanya. Photo: Pia Johnson.
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Uncle Vanya review: Chekhov's classic gets a barnstorming update

This Melbourne production of Uncle Vanya ups the laughter without losing sight of the class divide that fuelled Chekhov’s work.

Stephanie Lake Company's Vista. Photo: Pippa Samaya.
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Vista by Stephanie Lake Company review: from monochrome to full colour

The latest work from Melbourne-based Stephanie Lake Company, Vista gives us one view of the vicissitudes of life… and then…

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