Brett Boardman/Bell Shakespeare
After two years of COVID-delay, Bell Shakespeare’s Hamlet reflects both personal and global tragedies.
Adelaide Festival/Roy Vandervegt
This beautifully crafted production at the Adelaide Festival is an intricate look at families and memory.
Perth Festival/Ben Yew
While spending two years in Dartmoor prison, Kim Crotty wrote and illustrated 47 stories for his sons, desperately seeking to maintain his connection with his family.
Dana Weeks/Perth Festival
David Milroy’s Panawathi Girl is a rocking, vaudevillian, politically sharp and engaging piece of Australian First Nations’ music theatre.
Island Vibrations by Marie-Muriel Hillion Toulcanon.
Photo © Nic Casta
With borders closed indefinitely, this year’s Fringe World is a decidedly local affair.
Ten Alphas
This new Australian play, adapted from Heather Rose’s award winning book, celebrates the power of performance to help us connect.
Prudence Upton
In an unexpected pleasure, Paige Rattray places the stage directions of Arthur Miller’s play front and centre.
Global Creatures/ Michelle Grace Hunder
The ten-time Tony winning production has finally hit Australian stages. It remains faithful to its flamboyant parent movie but features a revamped score and a fiercely talented local lineup.
Belvoir/Brett Boardman
Belvoir’s outrageously fun new pantomime is a celebration of modern Australia.
Julius Caesar STC credit Daniel Boud.
262 Geraldine Hakewill and Ewen Leslie in Sydney Theatre Company’s Julius Caesar, 2021. Photo: Daniel Boud
Kip Williams’ modern telling of Julius Caesar asks us to consider just how political stories are told, re-told, and told again.
David Kelly
At its best, the play Return to the Dirt reminds us of our mortality and the extraordinary people behind the scenes involved in our passing.
Daniel J Grant/Black Swan State Theatre Company
George Orwell’s 1945 novel is given a playful contemporary adaptation by Black Swan State Theatre Company.
David Kelly
A theatrical version of Trent Dalton’s novel is both an exploration of masculinity and an exuberant love letter to Brisbane.
Matt Byrne/State Theatre Company South Australia
In a bold new play, all of humanity takes a drug to induce a year’s hibernation.
The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images
Minor human errors beautifully show Tokyo’s opening ceremony for what it is: real people in real time.
Peter Carroll and Mandela Mathia in The Cherry Orchard, Belvoir St Theatre.
Belvoir/Brett Boardman
When the future is clearly changing but we can’t focus on tomorrow, should we just keep dancing? Pamela Rabe anchors the absurdity of The Cherry Orchard.
Griffin/Brett Boardman
Dogged, a new play at Griffin, seeks to tell both sides of the Australian story, exploring ideas of territory, guilt and culpability.
Brett Boardman/Belvoir
Loosely based on the ABC journalist’s own experiences, Stop Girl opens up a story about PTSD after war.
Ian Wilkes leads a Galup evening tour.
Daniel Grant
Artists Ian Wilkes and Poppy van Oorde-Grainger invite audiences to walk where the first contact between Noongar and white settlers at Lake Monger took place.
Christophe Canato/Perth Festival
Mararo Wangai is captivating in his play, which captures the truth of being Black African in Australia.