Theatre Archive

  FULL DISCLOSURE, folks: This is not my review. It is written by Diana Simmonds of Stage Noise, and she has kindly given her permission to reprint it here. (Why didn’t I review it? The secret is in the cast names! No …

A comedy about climate change? Played by actors, naked apart from crocs and handmade hats? Yes, you can ask why. Here’s the playwright, Ang Collins: ‘Long story short – the combination of a bushfire evacuation, a love of nude beaches and …

Billed as intoxicating blend of spectacle, comedy and cabaret, La Ronde does not disappoint. The performers – who include acrobats, trapeze artistes and aerialists – hail from Australia and overseas, and do things with their bodies which cause us mere mortals wonder …

  Deborah Lawrie was Australia’s first female commercial airline pilot – and what a fight it was for her to overcome the aviation world’s chauvinistic male attitudes to women being anything other than hostesses back in the even more patriarchal 1970s. Writers …

Siena Fagan is a coffee addict Whenever an assignment is feeling a bit static, I pack a bag and set myself up at a coffee shop. Whether it’s the buzz of my skim cappuccino, the hustle and bustle of busy customers, or …

More than 300 athletes from over 40 nations are in Western Sydney this week for the 2025 ICF Slalom World Championships, with racing underway at Penrith Whitewater Stadium. The event was officially launched last Friday at Taronga Zoo, with slalom icons gathering …

The Brisbane Lions have cemented themselves as the AFL’s dominant force of the modern era, backing up last year’s demolition of Sydney with a commanding 47-point grand final win over the Geelong Cats. Unlike 2024’s one-sided contest, the start of this game …

Sam Shepard’s scorching look at sibling rivalry, masculinity and aspects of the American Dream is darkly comedic. Austin (Darcy Kent) has agreed to housesit his mother’s place in a remote part of California while she takes a holiday because it will provide …

Wildly funny and completely outré, Garry Starr’s Classic Penguins had the audience in fits of laughter all the way through his 70-minute foray into the world of books. Starr’s ‘mission’ is to save literature by performing every Penguin Classic novel ever written. …

Playwright Melanie Tait has penned a paeon to A Country Practice with this supremely entertaining take on what happens when a writing team decides it has to up the ratings of an already exceedingly popular soap by ‘killing’ off a beloved young …