Theatre
![The Bridal Lament. Image is a close-up of an Asian woman's face with a complex headdress, heavy makeup and facial adornments in the form of eight white pearl tears. She looks sad.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/383983231_18278518477152764_5729653022800828608_n.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: The Bridal Lament, Space Theatre
Rainbow Chan's OzAsia contribution was 'an ambitious work infused with vulnerability, grief, and empowerment'.
![spooktacular. Image is illustration of two ghosts beside two people performing into mics to three ibises against a circular multicoloured backdrop with the silhouette or a large spooky hand across it.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/bris.jpg?w=310)
Performance review: Spooktacular, Sue Benner Theatre
A cabaret treat on the spookiest night of the year.
![Girls in Boys' Cars. Image is two young women, one with shoulder length hair grinning and wearing a blue short sleeved shirt and the other looking off to the right in sunglasses and headscarf. They are seated behind a block, representing a car.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Phil-Erbacher_Ziggy-REsnick-Nikita-Waldron.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Girls in Boys' Cars, National Theatre of Parramatta
Two young women on a road trip in Western Sydney. What could possibly go wrong?
![The Memory of Water. Image is of one women in a pink hued bed, another sitting on it with her leg dangling over the side and a third standing by the side of the bed holding her head.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Michala-Banas_Jo-Downing_Madeleine-Jones_Ensemble_ImageCredit_PrudenceUpton_036.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: The Memory of Water, Ensemble Theatre
This award-winning play about three sisters is a bittersweet comedy.
![Twelfth Night. A dark spotlit stage features small trees in large pots, a couple of actors cuddle on. either side of the stage and a person centre stage with arm raised, wearing a white waistcoat, braces and black shorts.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/BellShakespeare_TwelfthNight_Production_PhotoBrettBoardman_014183-2.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Twelfth Night, Sydney Opera House
This production of Shakespeare's classic gender swap comedy deliberately dramatises its tragic elements.
![Myth, Propaganda and Disaster and the Heirs of America. Image is a woman standing in front of a blackboard writing, the blackboard has NEW YORK 2003 in large letters.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/IMG_3759-e1698665051435.jpeg?w=310)
Prophecy comes full circle in Heirs of America
Dr Robert Reid’s sequel to Stephen Sewell’s post 9/11 classic comes at a time when so much of what the…
![Bacon. Image is a woman in a white wedding-like dress trying to dodge six orange balls being thrown at her.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Cameron-Grant-Parenthesy.jpg?w=310)
Performance review: Bacon, A Dodgeball Named Desire, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Navigating self-acceptance and homophobia in one show, dodging a slew of balls in another, with sport versus arts.
![Flake. Image is a grungy kitchen theatre set with two people sitting at a table, a young woman of Asian appearance on a stool with white shirt, grey trousers and hands on knees and an older bent over man with black trousers, white shirt, glasses and straggly grey hair.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/redstitch-flake-recom.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Flake, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre
A story of family, connection and dislocation set in Hanoi.
![path. Image is a green hedge maze.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/shutterstock_8581885.jpg?w=310)
Entering theatre at different life stages – taking another path
Some arts practitioners follow a straight line into their chosen profession. Others take a more circuitous path to get there...
![Anna Kolusniewski, visual arts teacher and costume and jewellery designer. head and shoulders of woman with shoulder length hair and a fringe, looking knowingly at the camera against a purple background with the words 'so you want my arts job?' in white.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/SYWMAJ-2023-27October.jpg?w=310)
So you want my arts job: Art Teacher, Costume and Jewellery Designer
Anna Kolusniewski runs a successful business teaching art classes for children and adults, while also creating stunning wearable pieces on…