Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Starring Rosamund Pike as a judge whose son is accused of sexual assault, a filmed version of the hit play lands in UK and Australian cinemas this month
When Prima Facie premiered at the Sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMTuesday, January 14, 2025
The maverick magicians return to the Sydney Opera House and beyond with a delightful new tour that emphasises the audience – and the doubters
More summer essentials
The uncomfortable …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMMonday, January 13, 2025
Brendan Cowell, Ewen Leslie and Toby Schmitz insist they're not playing themselves in Hamlet Camp – where actors go to recover not from drugs or sex, but Shakespeare
Get our weekend c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMSunday, January 5, 2025
Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera tells the incredible story of the tiger-loving partners, from traumatic childhoods to Las Vegas stardom – and their shocking career-ending …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PMThursday, June 6, 2024
Sydney Opera HouseChoreographer's queer, condensed version dissolves the boundaries of the stage and, in a brilliant passage of dancing, the walls of the Joan Sutherland theatre itself
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMWednesday, March 20, 2024
Cast as George Washington, in his first major musical, Googoorewon Knox says 'it's important to see a First Nation fella doing such a big thing'
If Googoorewon (Goori) Knox had followed in f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMThursday, April 27, 2023
The playwright's one-woman legal drama has gone from Australia to the West End and now Broadway. She talks about juggling law and theatre, and longing for home
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMSaturday, November 12, 2022
Kip Williams has revolutionised the stage with his use of 'cine-theatre', in shows such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and Jekyll and Hyde. Ahead of his take on The Tempest, he talks about hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMFriday, December 10, 2021
After 44 years as Australia's national circus, members voted to reject the reform proposed by its funding partners – reluctantly choosing to close shop instead
Details of the shock de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMMonday, June 7, 2021
It is the hit musical inspired by a Canadian town's goodwill during 9/11. Twenty years on, its real-life characters say they're 'like family' now
This September marks 20 years since the atta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMMonday, January 4, 2021
The first major Australian arts festival of 2021 will be a litmus test for those to come as it navigates shifting sands around the city's recent Covid outbreak
Sydney festival, the first maj…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMTuesday, July 28, 2020
For students of Sydney's National Institute for Dramatic Art, it hasn't exactly been the year they signed up for
Final-year acting student Alex Stamell was deep into rehearsals for Will Eno'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMWednesday, April 29, 2020
Grahame Best sees more than 100 shows a year and rises to his feet to applaud every one. Now under lockdown, he's suffering
Grahame Best keeps a ghost light burning 24/7 in his Wollongong ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PMTuesday, December 1, 2015
Of all the theatrical forms, musical theatre is slowest to recognise it has a gender problem, says the multi-award-winning Broadway composer Jeanine Tesori​ ahead of the Australian pr…
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 06:23AMTuesday, May 22, 2012
Despite the gloomy statistics, female directors and playwrights are staking out new ground on stage.
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 09:15AM 
