Daniel Boud/Sydney Theatre Company
The Sydney Theatre Company’s adaptation of the book is both more poignant and more life-affirming from the dry bones of the original.
Clare Hawley/Griffin Theatre Company
This new play by Suzie Miller, the one-time lawyer who wrote Prima Facie, ventures into dark places few want to confront.
Prudence Upton/Sydney Theatre Company
Adapted by playwright Anchuli Felicia King, this ‘Australian classic’ is darkly funny and subversively political.
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The Australian comedian has died at 89, after a career spanning seven decades.
Jess Wyld/Perth Festival
Iain Grandage’s fourth Perth Festival continued his focus on First Nations performance, together with an exhilarating dose of Black Futurism as well as demanding post-classical music.
Brett Boardman/Griffin Theatre Company
At its heart, Sex Magick at Griffin Theatre Company is about subverting expectations, queering desire and digging beneath the surface
Belvoir/Brett Boardman
Maeve Marsden’s play lays bare what happens when love and family are politicised.
Jodie Hutchinson/Red Stitch
Susie Dee directs this dark and spare new play by Mary Anne Butler for Red Stitch.
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.
Helen Garner on stage in Betty Can Jump at The Pram Factory in 1972.
Photo courtesy of the Betty Can Jump collective
In 1972, 5 women – Helen Garner, Claire Dobbin, Evelyn Krape, Yvonne Marini and Jude Kuring –spent 5 months workshopping a play. Frank, angry and explicit, it was a beacon of 1970s women’s liberation.
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.
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Uncle Jack Charles had a remarkable career of truth-telling across theatre, screen and books.
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.
Jodie Hutchinson
Finucane & Smith inject burlesque and vaudeville with witty and often confrontational political provocations.
Rising 2022
Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set Piece explores female intimacy through the relationship between screen and stage.
The Australian cast of SIX: The Musical are currently performing in Adelaide.
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The nine shows include two 2022 Tony Award nominees – and three more Broadway productions are set to open in coming months.