Acting
![A woman in a light blue dress and silver boots is holding onto a mop. she is sitting on a table, A band is behind her.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/sally-jubb-e1723532977951.jpeg?w=310)
Festival review: June Carter Cash, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
A tribute to June Carter Cash, interwoven with the life story of a devoted fan.
![Against red drapes stands a dark-haired woman wearing lacey, black underwear-style clothing.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Apologia_Nicola-Gunn_c-Gregory-Lorenzutti.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Apologia, Malthouse Theatre
Reality and surrealism collide in one woman's fantasy of wanting to be a French actress.
![Two black women are dancing in front of a a swirly yellow and black backdrop.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Lyceum-Through-The-Mud_-Apphia-Campbell-Tinashe-Warikandwa_Photo-Credit_-Stuart-Armitt.jpg-21.jpg?w=310)
Festival review: Through the Mud, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Protest theatre about the US Civil Rights Movement that uses original songs and traditional gospel to tell its stories.
![A blonde woman is peering over the top of a chair. You can only see her head and upper body.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Roisin.jpg?w=310)
Festival reviews: Did You Mean to Fall Like That, The Daughters Of RóisÃÂn, Beyond Krapp, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Three solo acts in The Edinburgh Festival Fringe show a range of styles and subject matter.
![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.
![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?
![Actor Janet Andrewartha smiles for the camera in a publicity photo. She is an Anglo-Australian woman with carefully styled brown hair and wearing a white jacket.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Janet-Andrewartha-Neighbours-e1722313041690.jpg?w=310)
Vale Janet Andrewartha
The Australian actor, best known for long-running appearances in Australian TV dramas as well as her many stage performances, has…
![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.