Theatre
Youth arts sector fights for the future
The defunding of Young People and the Arts Australia last year shocked the youth arts sector; now its members are…
Kids' stories finding new adult audiences
Harry Potter to War Horse: Why have the boundaries separating children’s entertainment from more adult art forms have become so…
Acting, auditioning, and the audience: lessons from John Bell
With five decades experience behind him, actor and director John Bell has plenty of advice for up and coming thespians.
School Dance
This Eighties-inspired outsider story transports us to a world of schoolyard politics, crushes, faux pas and geeky dancing.
The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge
NEXT WAVE: A thoughtful, playful, evocative and transformative live art experience centred around and upon Melbourne’s Yarra River.
The Importance of Being Earnest
MTC: Wildean wit and wordplay coupled with Geoffrey Rush’s superb turn as Lady Bracknell ensure Simon Phillips’ last production for…
Return to Earth
MTC: A story of returning, reconnecting and belonging, Lally Katz’s hybrid of melodrama and magic realism never quite finds its…
Namatjira - 2011
MALTHOUSE: Theatre at its most moving, storytelling at its best; this Big hART production is the must-see show of the…
Hamlet
MTC: For all its strengths, there’s something of the air of a Hollywood sequel about this new production of Shakespeare’s…
Pin Drop
MALTHOUSE: A sudden noise that wakes you in the night. A shadowy movement glimpsed down a darkened alley. A visceral,…