Theatre
![Priscilla Queen of the Desert. A couple of drag queens and a transwoman stand on stage in front of an orange backdrop and a prop bus. They are in extravagant costumes and are holding hands.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/1aac95f0-9aa3-4dc7-a8ad-dc814b6a5c8c1-e1715733100555.jpg?w=310)
Musical review: Priscilla Queen of the Desert – the musical, Mandurah Performing Arts Centre
This accomplished jukebox musical served as a reminder of how far society has (and hasn’t) evolved.Â
![A stage filled with performers dressed as animals and birds with a backdrop and set covered in Aboriginal designs.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Charlie-Kinross-HR-1562-e1715665467589.jpg?w=310)
Performance review: Parrwang Lifts the Sky, Malthouse Theatre
Based on an original creation story from Wadawurrung Country, this is a tale of a magpie named Parrwang who saves…
![A natural rock formation in the rough shape of a window looks out over a river and surrounding Nanda Country. Two children wearing Akubra hats sit in the window, their backs to the camera.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/nick-dunn-ObqXTSx3cVk-unsplash.jpg?w=310)
APAM heading to WA
The Australian Performing Arts Market will be hosted in Western Australia by PAC Australia in 2026, 2028 and 2030.
![Switzerland. A theatre set of a writer's study with grey concrete walls, a two seater leather backed couch, a wooden coffee table and downstage a cluttered desk with a middle aged white woman working at a typewriter. Behind her a young white man has come through the door and looks nervous.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/ENSEMBLE_Switzerland_LaurenceBoxhall_ToniScanlan_ImageBrettBoardman_0001561.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Switzerland, Ensemble Theatre
Patricia Highsmith is all the rage at the moment, so it's a good time to stage Joanna Murray-Smith's play about…
![Fourteen. A stage set of a two-storey building, in the middle of the stage standing on the middle of three desks is a young man holding a bunch of flowers and throwing both arms in the air extravagantly.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Fourteen-JD-7010-e1715576034824.jpg?w=310)
Why I've programmed Fourteen for Bathurst
The manager of BMEC explains why he has picked this particular production from Shake & Stir Theatre Company to share…
![The Roof is Caving In. La Mama Courthouse. Three young women on a stage draped in fabric. In the middle is a woman in white and light blue with her arms around a woman dressed in orange on the left and purple on the right. They are crouching under the middle woman's grasp and hold their belongings in boxes.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/The_Roof_Is_Caving_In_Darren_Gill-00241-1-e1715567989804.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: The Roof is Caving In, La Mama Courthouse
A very topically-themed play about share housing.
![Image: The Butterfly Club. The Librar(IAN) poster with a digitally edited image showing a portrait of a person smiling set against a bookcase.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/The_LibrarIAN_May_2024.webp?w=310)
Theatre review: The Librar(IAN), The Butterfly Club
‘The Librar(IAN)’ is a semi-autobiographical hour of comedic theatre celebrating the important role libraries and librarians play in their local…
![World Problems. Image is a woman in grey standing on a stage in front of the mouth of a tunnel, that looks as if it's lined in slate. There are boulders at her feet and we can see the silhouetted heads of the front row of the audience from behind.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/worldproblems.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: World Problems, Southbank Theatre
A solo show that spans near and far, borne of personal and global events.
![The Grinning Man. A huddle of seven young actors in vaguely Victorian/Edwardian clothing grasp and peer over each other with manically grinning faces.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/13531-1-e1714963206790.jpg?w=310)
Musical review: The Grinning Man, Alex Theatre
A number of miscalculations may make you grimace instead of grin in the Australian premiere of this British musical.
![WAY. On a dark stage an older worried looking white woman in a grey hoodie is using a phone in a telephone box. A chair is on the right of the picture.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/darren-gill.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: WAY, fortyfivedownstairs
A one-person show that skilfully covers a societal issue with empathy and compassion.