Roslyn Packer Theatre, SydneyPeake skilfully navigates the painful, raw experience of struggling to conceive in this stage adaptation of Julia Leigh's memoir In Avalanche: A Love Story, Juli…
Evidence from Ms. Stone, who has accused Mr. Rush, the actor, of inappropriate behavior, was kept out of the trial of his defamation suit against an Australian news outlet.
The actor said two front-page articles in 2017 wrongly accused him of sexually harassing a female co-star during a Sydney theater production.
The country's performing arts funding model favors a group of established organizations at the expense of newcomers. Critics say this stifles innovation.
Bruce Pascoe and Stephen Page tell how a joking remark led to Bangarra's latest productionFifteen thousand years before the Egyptians, Aboriginal Australians were grinding grain " making the…
The female experience of disease is at the heart of an extraordinary and moving showWhen Lara Veitch walks on stage in A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer " until then, a giddy, scatterb…
Hota, Gold CoastAustralia's funniest national treasure utterly unafraid to take the piss out of everyoneFor his first proper concert on home soil in three years, Tim Minchin had two running …
Director Barrie Kosky's wild, grotesque, frenzied production resembles a cross between Mr Bean and the Hunger Games dystopiaEarly on in The Nose, two men in the audience stand up and stride …
Lyric Theatre, QPACQueensland Ballet artistic director Li Cunxin takes the stage for first time in 18 years in pleasing yet predictable balletWhen Li Cunxin " better known as Mao's Last Danc…
Abba is everywhere in PJ Hogan's musical adaptation, which pulsates with high-spirited fun but eschews the film's feminist endingWhen PJ Hogan first approached Abba in the 1990s to ask if he…
Sydney Opera HouseIt's a dance that hits hard, and offers a whirlwind tour of Bennelong's troubled life and deathIn 1793, the Aboriginal warrior Bennelong " taken to London to be shown off a…
Roslyn Packer Theatre, SydneyThe world premiere of Taiwanese choreographer Cheng Tsung-lung's Full Moon opens an uneven but ultimately uplifting showIn folklore, a full moon can lead to madn…
Sydney Lyric Theatre, SydneyEven Australian Idol Paulini's stellar voice can't rescue this musical, which turns the Whitney Houston film into a glitzy but baffling spectacle for the stageThe…
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company People power drives new energy into Australian premiere of Lucy Kirkwood's drama exploring US-China relations and the famous 'Tank Man' photogra…
Though it has a storyline you couldn't make up, this play about a transplant and friendship has a jumpy and unfocused frameworkOn opening night of Mark Colvin's Kidney " in a tense, funny sc…
Pakana writer Nathan Maynard's impressive debut play is about moonbird people but is rooted in the everyday, with an ability to laugh about itself - hard Once a year in Tasmania, Aboriginal …
Theatre companies have no reason to be jealous of Bell Shakespeare's Othello, but artistic director Peter Evans may just be finding his feetWatching Othello once again in Sydney, my first th…
When performers take over a five-star hotel, how much is authentic and how much is PR? And does it matter?Sprawled on the immaculate, crisp white sheets of room 1107 is a man. He lies spread…
Belvoir St theatre, SydneyIn a series of equally impressive and moving monologues, Brian Friel's play asks the audience whether anyone's memory can ever truly be trustedOn a small intimate s…
Ensemble theatre, SydneyWritten by a former Fairfax journalist, Jane Cafarella, the play mixes laugh-out-loud one-liners with flashes of true grief " but it only skims the surfaceE-baby prot…
Western Sydney street acrobatics troupe Dauntless Movement Crew delivers an earnest but underwhelming productionJump first, ask later. That's the motto of the Fairfield-based Dauntless Movem…
Joan Sutherland theatre, Sydney Opera HouseOpera Australia puts on a 60th anniversary crowd-pleaser with a risky attempt to re-create a bygone golden era that succeeds with verveWhenever I f…
Capitol theatre, SydneyInspired by another royal love story, Graeme Murphy's bold and daring update of the Russian classic tells a deeply human story, swans or no swans"There were three of u…
Near operatic storytelling and inspiring music take Bangarra's brilliant effort on a journey from loss and pain to more hopeful themes such as kinship and artOUR land people stories " Bangar…
He was bullied as a teen, trained until he bled, and triumphed. Now Smith bids farewell to his globally acclaimed career on the stage that launched itIn 1989 Damian Smith, then a 16-year-old…