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A scene from A Daylight Connection's 'A Nightime Travesty' at Malthouse Theatre for Asia TOPA 2025. Two Aboriginal women dressed as airline stewardesses stand on a blue-lit set as bloody rags fall from above. Behind them at stage right stands a sexy, shirtless, Aboriginal actor playing Death; at stage left, two musicians are visible.
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Theatre review: A Nightime Travesty, Malthouse Theatre, Asia TOPA 2025

A ferociously funny, controlled yet chaotic Blak vaudevillian comedy that pulls no punches and decapitates its prisoners.

Two women and five men inside a house. You can see a darkened sky outside.
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Theatre review: And Then There Were None, Comedy Theatre

The best selling crime novel of all time receives another stage adaptation.

An African Australian woman with long dark haired tied back, a Caucasian woman with a messy blonde bun, an Indian man with a black bun and a Caucasian man with short blond hair sit around a pit with sand in it drinking espresso martinis on stage set decorated like a Turkish restaurant. Never Have I Ever, Melbourne Theatre Company.
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Theatre review: Never Have I Ever, Fairfax Studio

Both witty and wily, Deborah Frances-White's play makes for a very entertaining night in the theatre.

Maroon-coloured seating and curtains resembling those of a theatre.
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Immersive review: Invisible: Darkfield, Adelaide Fringe

From out of the darkness, a voice beckons you to embrace the chaos.

A young man holding onto a young woman. The lgiht around them is night-blue.
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Musical review: Hadestown, Theatre Royal Sydney

While some elements are impressive, others are undercooked and underwhelming.

Two figures in shadowed darkness in the middle of the stage holding onto each other. Heavy drapery surround them with red tones.
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Theatre review: Our Monster’s Name is Jerry, Theatre Works

Gothic tropes are explored, but without the promised scares.

Ryuichi Sakamoto in mixed-reality, ‘KAGAMI’. A virtual image of Sakamoto playing a black grand piano in a limbo or dark virtual space.
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Mixed-reality concert review: KAGAMI, Asia TOPA 2025

In this one-on-one encounter with Ryuichi Sakamoto, ‘KAGAMI’ is a tender, yet ambitious, ode to life and death.

Two panels: on the left is a young woman with long dark hair and a white blouse, on the right is a book cover in purple hues, with the words water moon written in white vertically
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Book review: Water Moon, Samantha Sotto Yambao

A dreamy and fantastical tale about choices made and not made.

Five people wearing suits stand across a dark stage, with the large word SILENCE above their heads. Truth at Malthouse.
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Theatre review: Truth, Merlyn Theatre, Malthouse

Patricia Cornelius' latest play tells the story of the WikiLeaks founder who 'wanted to change the world'.

A young woman wearing a black dress with red trim has one arm over her head and one by her stomach.
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Theatre review: Short + Sweet Sydney Opening Week, Heat 1, 2025

A competition to find the best 10-minute play. The first heat was of mixed quality.

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