Zizi Strallen as Q, Angela Marie Hurst as Dee, and Carly Bawden as Anna in the new musical production of Rock Follies.
Johan Persson
Foot stomping songs and charismatic performances make the stage adaptation of the 1970s TV series a hit.
Pia Johnson/Melbourne Theatre Company
There is a great track record of musical theatre tackling political material. Bloom seems too afraid of its own subject material to truly tackle the issues.
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.
Sydney Theatre Company/ Prudence Upton
Julia Gillard’s ‘misogyny speech’ forms the inciting incident and climatic ending of Joanna Murray-Smith’s new play Julia, produced by the Sydney Theatre Company.
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.
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.