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Lost and Finding review: raw energy at Flight Path Theatre

Lost and Finding is a fantastical comedy with a sense of adventure (and puppets).

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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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…

A man, Ian Stenlake, sitting in a chair near a shuttered blind in The 39 Steps.
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The 39 Steps review: Hitchcock gets the slapstick treatment

Hitchcock spy thriller meets Monty Python-style humour in The 39 Steps, a rollicking action-comedy. 

A classroom scene in Trophy Boys, with three students. One is standing on a table.
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Trophy Boys review: boys will be boys on tour

Runaway hit play Trophy Boys returns to excoriate a world of privilege and male collusion.

A promotional photograph of the late Noel Tovey AM from the 2014 season of 'Little Black Bastard', presented by ILBIJERRI and Arts House. The photo shows an elder but still vigorous Aboriginal man with grey hair; he poses regally and is looking gravely down at the camera.
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Vale Uncle Noel Tovey AM: Indigenous champion of gay rights

Tovey is remembered for his spirit, courage and creativity, and as a courageous elder with a sly wit.

A man with holding a phone in his ear in the dark in Dial M for Murder.
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Dial M for Murder review: dial NQ for not quite

A new adaptation of Frederick Nott's 1952 play Dial M for Murder at Melbourne's Theatre Works feels like a missed…

Five people dancing in further coats in The Orchard.
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The Orchard review: Pony's Cam's radical interpretation of Chekov classic at the Malthouse

In The Orchard Chekov’s classic play is deconstructed as the jumping-off point for a smart, uncompromising rant against our dehumanised…

A man is standing on a milk crate. There are people dancing around him in a production of In The Heights.
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In The Heights review: Lin-Manuel Miranda will have you dancing in your seat

In The Heights, by the theatrical force behind Hamilton, pulses with heritage and history.

A woman is looking at a man through a veiled frame in Three Plays.
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Three Plays review: Tennessee Williams in snack form by Ground Floor Theatre

Three rarely seen one-act plays by Tennessee Williams are given the omnibus treatment on the Old Fitz stage in Three…

Four men in front of various contraptions in production of The War of The Worlds.
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The War of the Worlds review: the radio adaptation in a new Perth venue

This production of The War of the Worlds is based on Orson Welles' radio version of HG Wells' famous book.

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