Theatre
![Four figures dressed like cowboys emerge from a yellow-lit haze. A woman kneels in the foreground over a backpack. This is a scene from the 2024 production of NORPA's 'Wildskin'. Photo: Kurt Petersen.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240906-NORPA-Wildskin-2024-Photo-KurtPetersen-DSC07172-copy.jpg?w=310)
From proscenium arch to place-based: reimagining Wildskin
Adapting an existing work for an entirely new setting is not without its challenges, but overcoming such challenges leads to…
![A young blonde woman in denim jacket (Ashleigh Hermann) is staring across a table at an older man (Daniel Mitchell) in 'Blackbird.'](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Blackbird-31.jpeg?w=310)
Theatre review: Blackbird, Wentworth Falls School of Arts
Exploring the devastating power of trauma and guilt, director Paulina Kelly’s production of ‘Blackbird’ was uncomfortable, shocking – and brilliant.Â
![Pamela Rabe, will co-conceive and direct a new production of Beckett's 'Happy Days' with Nick Schlieper. A woman with black hair streaked with white is covered with bits of rubbish, cast offs of material and other detritus.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/06_Happy-Days_Pamela-Rabe_Rene-Vaile.jpg?w=310)
Kip Williams signs off as Artistic Director with STC 2025 season announcement
The STC's 2025 season features some Australian classics, returning and interstate hits, plus some intriguing debuts.
![A kitchen scene. Two women are on the left at a table, one seated, another perched on the table. A man is on the right, riding a tiny child's tricycle. The Children.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Caroline-Brazier-Nicola-Bartlett-Humphrey-Bower.-Image-Philip-Gostelow1.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: The Children, Heath Ledger Theatre, WA
Environmental disaster and the rocky affairs of the heart are braided in this production.
![Two woman are enshrouded in darkness. The one on the left, who has short dark hair, is holding a lamp. The other one has long white hair. The Turn of the Screw by Hayes Theatre.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Julie-Lea-Goodwin-Catherine-Bouchierin-Turn-of-the-Screw-PHOTO-Grant-Leslie-e1725413415883.jpg?w=310)
Opera review: The Turn of the Screw, Hayes Theatre
Director Craig Baldwin and the Hayes Theatre Co breathe new life into a Benjamin Britten classic.
![Anna Yen plays Mrs Chen in ‘AI May’, an elderly migrant mother grappling with grief in an increasingly lonely society. An elderly Asian woman wearing a sage coloured hoodie is holding a burning incense in her hands, she appears to be praying with her eyes closed.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Mother-and-Incense-e1724818190279.jpeg?w=310)
A diasporic theatrical take on AI, with an Asian immigrant mother in futuristic Brisbane
In a new bilingual theatre production, an immigrant mother seeks solace in a humanoid following the death of her daughter.
![The opening night of Hibberd's final play, 'Killing Time' at the Carlton Courthouse. L-R: John Timlin, Jim Daly, Jack Hibberd, Don Bridges, Evelyn Krape. Photo: Courtesy of Don Bridges.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/457061733_1212033913162820_554698131392335101_n_a52d64.jpg?w=310)
Vale Jack Hibberd – great Australian playwright and author of Dimboola
Jack Hibberd, the author of 'Dimboola' and one of Australia's best known and most prolific playwrights, has died.
![Dancer/choreographer Luke Murphy, looking sweaty and slightly dishevelled, holds an old-fashioned alarm clock up to one ear, in a scene from the dance-theatre production Volcano. He wears a dark suit jacket over a grey coat, and stands in front of a background of dingy wallpaper to which sheets of blank paper are pinned.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Volcano_AtticProjects_Emilija-Jefremova_004.jpg?w=310)
Festival review: Volcano, Brisbane Powerhouse
On a glassed-in stage, two men reenact their memories in an endless loop – but what if those memories aren’t…
![Peering inside the set design for the final Slingsby production, 'A Concise Compendium of Wonder'. In the photo, a man peers through a small doorway into the interior of the model.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Building-internal-e1724983491391.jpg?w=310)
Slingsby Theatre Company’s 2026 production to be its last
The South Australian company will wind up in its 20th year with a final, ambitious work.
![Sam Clark has died aged 40. Image is a Caucasian man with slicked back hair, a clipped greying beard and a big smile. He is wearing a white shirt, dark tie and a grey suit jacket.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/457064513_18453549745019414_1119334909274534026_n-e1724875840412.jpg?w=310)
Vale Sam Clark
Sam Clark's impressive theatre career included producing and acting at Brisbane's Metro Arts, before launching a successful New York company.