Theatre
![A bare-chested man is spot lit. He has tattoos on his chest and a while ruff around his neck. He has white make up on his face. His right arm is raised.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/sasha-krohn.png?w=310)
Festival review: The Weight of Shadow, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Physical theatre and dance explore the daily struggles of having anxiety and PTSD.
![A darkened stage lit up by three small lamps. A middle-aged man and a woman are seated centrally at a table. To the left is an older man with a guitar, on the right and older woman knitting.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/UncleVanya_JohnGadenAO_AbbeyMorgan_YalinOzucelik_VanessaDowning_Ensemble_ImageCredit_PrudenceUpton__3131.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Uncle Vanya, Ensemble Theatre
Joanna Murray-Smith's adaptation of Chekhov's classic play is elegant and tasteful.
![Five diverse women sit in chairs on stage as a sixth seated woman speaks into a microphone. A black-clad Auslan interpreter stands at stage left, beside one of the actors.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/POTUS-play-briefing-QT-e1722931779833.jpg?w=310)
Queensland Theatre axes entire run of hit Broadway play
The Australian premiere season of Selina Fillinger’s 'POTUS' has been cancelled outright, the day after its postponed opening night.
![English. Southbank Theatre. A classroom set up on stage, with pastel green walls and an orange curtain on the left side. A woman is standing in front of a whiteboard. There is a man and three women surrounding her.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/1.-Full-Cast_MTC_ENGLISH_Pia-Johnson1.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: English, Southbank Theatre
The challenges of learning a second language are played out in an Iranian classroom.
![A man is lounging in a bed, wrapped up in bedsheets. On the right, crouching is a figure dressed up in a fancy frock and headgear.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Earnest_Bloomshed_Performer-James-Jackson-Tom-Molyneux_photo-Sarah-Walker-02491.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: The Importance of Being Earnest, fortyfivedownstairs
Cucumbers aplenty in a production of Oscar Wilde's classic work that also interweaves the playwright into the show.
![An Asian woman and man are sitting on a floor in a light, white, living room setting. In the background on the left are three men, a band, in another set, with a green framing. The Questions.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/THE_QUESTIONS_stills_by_MATT_BYRNE-1161.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: The Questions, State Theatre SA
A first date that inadvertently becomes extended thanks to lockdown. What could possibly go wrong?
![Karim. Two men. The young one is playing an oud. The old one has his arms in the air.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/NTofP_Karim_Youssef-Sabet-George-Kanaan_Credit-Philip-Erbacher1-e1722317803253.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Karim, National Theatre of Parramatta
How one young man's life changes when he discovers a traditional Middle Eastern instrument.
![A man and a woman are wearing bridal white. She has a crown of flowers on her head. There are other people in the background talking.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/wedding.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Blood Wedding, Flight Path Theatre
A production that has celebrated origins, but does not meet expectations.
![A young couple are sitting on a park bench The male is cradling a white bundle, made to look like a baby is within it.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/romeo.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Romeo & Julie, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre
Though the title alludes to Shakespeare's classic tale, this contemporary play focuses mainly on the struggles of young love.
![Tay Lawler, a balding, older Anglo-Australian man wearing a white shirt and tie, stands in front of a theatre advertising the 1977 revival of 'Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'. He is holding a pink Kewpie Doll, like those featured in the play.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Ray-Lawler-e1722381568607.avif?w=310)
Vale Ray Lawler: the playwright who changed the sound of Australian theatre
Julian Meyrick reflects on the death of playwright Ray Lawler and his landmark play, 'Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'.