This year Melbourne’s La Mama Theatre celebrates its 50th year of operation. In an interview for the company’s 20th anniversary, the founding director Betty Burstall said: The basic thing is the money…
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From Cate Blanchett to David Williamson, some of Australia’s most well known theatre artists have performed at La Mama, which celebrates its 50th birthday this year.
The Rover begins with 17th-century playwright Aphra Behn inviting those who don’t like the idea of a female writer to fuck off, setting the tone for a hilarious and utterly relevant romp through Naples.
New survey from the Australia Council shows pretty much all Australians engage with the arts, and 8-in-10 do so online. However more people are ambivalent about public arts funding, and more people think the arts are too expensive.
The Sound of Falling stars brings 31 male singers who died young, including Sid Vicious, Jim Morrison and Jeff Buckley, back to life, and forces us to question our role in their fates.
‘Well behaved women seldom make history,’ wrote historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Revolt. She said. Revolt again. at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre takes the idea to its apocalyptic extremes.
Musical theatre nominees at the 2017 Helpmann Awards are dominated by overseas productions. Our own productions need way more support to compete on the world stage.
Queer life thrived in 1940s Sydney despite policing and prohibition, as a new production of the musical Only Heaven Knows demonstrates. But it was not to last.
The Book of Exodus is a provocative work that sees children retelling the biblical tale.
Mr Burns is a dazzling meditation on the meaning of theatre through The Simpsons.
Nakkiah Lui’s Black is the New White takes 17th-century comedy of manners and uses it to probe race and class to great effect.
In TV and film the British monarchy have never had it so good – it’s about time something took a more sceptical eye.
In Germany – a country where going to the theater is a deeply ingrained cultural tradition – the stage is a place to confront pressing political issues.
No other Australian playwright has mined their own life as much as Dorothy Hewett. In this expressionist drama, she depicts a girl of yearning heart, looking for love and hungry for life.
Each year at Easter, Christians recreate the spectacularly violent end of Jesus’s life, raising some tough questions about the depiction of suffering on stage.
Scrutinising the output of a national theatre at a time of rising nationalism is a worthwhile activity, but it needs either radical intention or emotional insight.
Every part of this production - staged outdoors in a quarry - shows evidence of the highest degree of collaboration and the greatest subtlety of decision.
It’s one thing to read Irvine Welsh’s grim tale of 1980s Scotland - it’s another to see it happen three feet away from you.
China’s demographic experiment come to life in Little Emperors, but not always successfully.
The plays of Alex Buzo captured the spirit of rebellion of a new generation of theatre artists.
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Researcher, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
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Lecturer in English, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, English and Theatre Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway University of London
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Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre; Director, Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET), University of Regina
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Research assistant, Empire, Migration and Belonging, University of Oxford
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Sessional lecturer and researcher, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
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Hon Research Fellow in Poetry and Theatre studies, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer – Modern History, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in Musical Theatre, Griffith University
