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A promotional image for Black Swan’s 2025 production, ‘August: Osage County’. Five actors pose for the camera against a bacldrop formed by a bright red field and a blue sky. A tree-encircled family home is visible in the distance.
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Black Swan’s 2025 season designed to challenge and nourish audiences

Seven productions are featured in Black Swan State Theatre Company’s 2025 season, including new Australian works and a modern American…

A publicity image for Griffin Theatre Company's 2025 production 'Naturism'. A naked woman stands with her back to the camera, her buttocks and natural curves on show. She holds a pair of sunglasses in one hand, and is surrounded by stylised 3D plants.
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Griffin Theatre Company’s 2025 season celebrates immediacy and finds common ground

In 2025, Griffin thematically bridges social and generational divides while also celebrating theatre’s ability to predict the future.

A promotional image for Queensland Theatre's 2025 production 'Malacañang Made Us'. A young Filipino person in ragged shorts, thongs and a mesh t-shirt reclines in an ornate gold and velvet throne.
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Queensland Theatre launches 2025 season with AD’s role still vacant

A triumvirate of Associate Artistic Directors have programmed the company’s 2025 season, which includes two world premieres of very local…

Theatre Royal Sydney has had its old wooden stage replaced by a modern, modular design. Taken from the dress circle, the photo shows the replacement of the stage in process.
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Modern new staging installed at Theatre Royal Sydney

The new, modular stage has been built utilising sustainable materials, while the old wooden stage has been repurposed and donated.

Hazem Shammas will play the titular role in Bell Shakespeare's 2025 production of 'Coriolanus'. A man with dark, curly hair and wearing a brown suit holds his right hand to his mouth. A butterfly is perched on his fingertips.
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From rarely seen tragedy to popular history play: Bell Shakespeare launches 2025 season

Rarely staged in Australia, Shakespeare’s ‘Coriolanus’ is one of three major productions presented by Bell Shakespeare in the company’s 35th…

Dressed in yellow and green robes with ornate headwear, two Asian-Australian artists, Joe Paradise Lui (left) and Merlynn Tong (right), pose against a red background. Promotional image for the 2025 MTC production 'Legends (of the Golden Arches)'. MTC 2025 season.
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MTC launches 2025 season with revivals, remounts and new Australian work

Brave programming and resonant stories are central to Anne-Louise Sarks’ third MTC season as Artistic Director.

A publicity image for Belvoir's 2025 adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. A dark-haired woman in a purple jacket, a red-haired woman in a period dress, and a dark-haired young man in a ruffled shirt and frock coat look towards the camera. Golden glitter showers down around them.
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Grief, hilarity, classics and culture are celebrated in Belvoir’s 2025 season

Artistic Director Eamon Flack has launched a season of nine plays for Belvoir’s 2025 subscription season.

Pamela Rabe, will co-conceive and direct a new production of Beckett's 'Happy Days' with Nick Schlieper. A woman with black hair streaked with white is covered with bits of rubbish, cast offs of material and other detritus.
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Kip Williams signs off as Artistic Director with STC 2025 season announcement

The STC's 2025 season features some Australian classics, returning and interstate hits, plus some intriguing debuts.

Anna Yen plays Mrs Chen in ‘AI May’, an elderly migrant mother grappling with grief in an increasingly lonely society. An elderly Asian woman wearing a sage coloured hoodie is holding a burning incense in her hands, she appears to be praying with her eyes closed.
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A diasporic theatrical take on AI, with an Asian immigrant mother in futuristic Brisbane

In a new bilingual theatre production, an immigrant mother seeks solace in a humanoid following the death of her daughter.

The opening night of Hibberd's final play, 'Killing Time' at the Carlton Courthouse. L-R: John Timlin, Jim Daly, Jack Hibberd, Don Bridges, Evelyn Krape. Photo: Courtesy of Don Bridges.
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Vale Jack Hibberd – great Australian playwright and author of Dimboola

Jack Hibberd, the author of 'Dimboola' and one of Australia's best known and most prolific playwrights, has died.

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