Jodie Hutchinson/Red Stitch
Susie Dee directs this dark and spare new play by Mary Anne Butler for Red Stitch.
Pia Johnson/Melbourne Theatre Company
Fragmented scenes shift backwards and forwards through time to build an absorbing picture of the circle of artists who gathered around the Reeds.
The Last Great Hunt
This play asks: what if it was Adam who sent an inappropriate photograph to his former lover, Lilith?
Daniel Boud/Sydney Theatre Company
The Sydney Theatre Company’s production is beautiful and affecting – but it presents a Shakespeare we wish we had, rather than the one we do.
Sriram Jeyaraman/Belvoir
After the roaring success of Counting and Cracking, S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack have produced another play that will captivate audiences.
Prudence Upton/Sydney Theatre Company
In this play, RBG discusses her most famous cases and her conversations with three of the presidents who served during her 27-year term on the US Supreme Court.
When the World Turns by Polyglot Theatre and Oily Cart.
Photographer: Theresa Harrison
A collaboration between Polyglot Theatre and the UK’s Oily Cart puts an inclusive, child-led approach at its heart.
Joseph Mayers/Sydney Theatre Company
A Raisin in the Sun is arguably one of the most compelling narratives of 20th century Black American life.
Brett Boardman/Belvoir
Based on Anne Deveson’s 1991 memoir about her son’s experience with schizophrenia, this play can be achingly sad. But it also offers hope.
Jeff Busby/Melbourne Theatre Compnay
Melbourne Theatre Company’s Laurinda is a smart re-framing of Alice Pung’s classic coming-of-age novel.
Daniel Boud/ STC
Gaslight, fog, and mysterious doorways abound in STC’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a play which is a complex portrait of morals being realigned in a new world of discovery.
Chamber Made/Pia Johnson
In this new Australian work, sound, image and physical body are decoupled, and gradually splintered like the many facets of our online presence.
Jodie Hutchinson
Finucane & Smith inject burlesque and vaudeville with witty and often confrontational political provocations.
Sydney Theatre Company/Prudence Upton
Anne Brontë’s novel was a skewering of her sister’s romantic heroes. Now a new adaptation finds something completely modern in her words.
Rising 2022
Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set Piece explores female intimacy through the relationship between screen and stage.
Rising/Sarah Walker
In this new work at Melbourne’s Rising Festival, Anything & Everything lets kids tell us how they see themselves and the world around them.
David Hooley
Son of Byblos, from Brave New World Theatre Company, looks at the forbidden territory of queer sexuality in Lebanese-Australian families.
Matt Byrne/State Theatre Company South Australia
Caleb Lewis’ play, named for a popular but treacherous diving cave, is a sumptuous look at the beauty – and danger – of diving.
Phoebe Powell/Darlinghurst Theatre Company
Aran Thangaratnam’s dark comedy sees two estranged Tamil brothers trying to mend tensions. It doesn’t always go to plan.
Roy Vandervegt/Adelaide Festival
Billed as an opportunity for frank conversations, this beautiful production was a deeply impactful sharing of what matters in life.