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English review: an insistently brilliant prize-winning play

Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play takes to the Seymour Centre stage for its Sydney debut.

Belvoir St Theatre's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Photo: Brett Boardman.
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead review: a long slog with flashes of brilliance

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a bloated beast of a play – but not without…

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The Last Ship review: Sting performs his 'deeply personal' musical in Brisbane

Sting’s childhood-inspired musical The Last Ship is a beautifully crafted, well-realised story of defiance tempered with hope.

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A Transgender Woman on the Internet, Crying review: dark, bold and playfully queer

Cassie Hamilton isn't afraid to take risks in A Transgender Woman on the Internet, Crying.

Kyle Stephens of The Theatrical Gaffer. Photo: Christopher Elder.
Opinions & Analysis

Theatre designers are being disrespected – and I should know

Design as a craft and a storytelling discipline seems to be quietly disappearing from Australian independent theatre.

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Stage Kiss review: a 'wonderfully funny' and very meta farce at Sydney's New Theatre

With layered writing and strong performances, Stage Kiss is whip smart.

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From set design to touring, how can we make theatre more environmentally sustainable?

The majority of Australian theatre-makers are concerned about climate change but most feel the issue receives limited attention in the…

Daniela Farinacci on the set of MTC's 2026 production, West Gate. The actor, playing a grieving widow, sits in a reproduction of a 1970's kitchen surrounded by the wreckage of the collapsed West Gate Bridge.
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West Gate review: a flawed but powerful play about the loss of 35 lives

The collapse of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge is dramatised in this new MTC production by playwright Dennis McIntosh and director…

Scott Shepherd in the New York encore production of Gatz at The Public Theater. Photo: Joan Marcus.
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Gatz review: it’s The Great Gatsby (Jim) but not as we know it

Gatz, the acclaimed adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, returned to Australia for the Adelaide Festival.

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The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin review: landmark 1970s play revived for a new audience

Some 50 years on, The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin remains just as urgent as ever.

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