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Ensemble Theatre announces its 2026 season

Ten productions have been programmed for Ensemble Theatres 2026 season, including four new Australian productions, one of them by David Williamson.
14 Aug 2025 9:08
Richard Watts
Actor Andrew McFarlane in a promotion image for David Williamson's The Social Ladder', which opens Ensemble Theatre's 2026 season. The actor, a dapper, tanned man with grey hair, wears a suit, shirt and cravat, and is posing before an ornate gilded picture frame against a bright red background.

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Actor Andrew McFarlane in a promotion image for David Williamson’s The Social Ladder’, which opens Ensemble Theatre’s 2026 season. Photo: Supplied.

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Ensemble Theatre, located in Sydney’s northern harbour-side suburb, Kirribilli, has launched its 2026 subscription season.

Ten plays – including the world premiere of Ensemble stalwart David Williamson AO’s new satire, The Social Ladder – have been programmed for subscribers, as well as a ‘special event’: another world premiere, this time by British-born Australian actor Daniel Mitchell.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts

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