Seeds of a powerful work need nurturing
"Unfortunately, the rhythm of the piece was broken with long and unnecessary blackouts that jarred the flow of the story." JOE WOODWARD reviews La Souris Blanche (The White Mouse).
Theatre
The Canberra Cabaret Festival is back for three nights, bringing together three distinctive voices for a celebration of music, storytelling and lived experience at the ACT Hub in Kingston, reports HELEN MUSA.
When Canberra Rep lifts the curtain on its 2026 season, it does so with the company’s most-produced modern playwright, reports HELEN MUSA.
Canberra’s secondary colleges have long produced exceptional theatre talent, and this tradition continues in the case of recent Year 12 graduate from Narrabundah College, Wajanoah Donohue, reports HELEN MUSA.
Theatre
Will and Viola make a strong performance partnership
"This adaptation for the stage of the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love works very well as a way of showcasing lots of up and coming talent." writes reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.
Theatre
Kiss me, Kit, the Shrew gets a gender bending
It’ll be a case of “Kiss me, Kit” when Karen Vickery’s gender-bending production of The Taming of the Shrew fronts up to audiences in the seventh iteration of Lakespeare: Shakespeare by the Lakes VII, reports HELEN MUSA.
Theatre
The ‘White Mouse’ reflects on her life, in French
The Street Theatre is hosting a contemporary play about wartime heroine Nancy Wake, known to the Gestapo as "The White Mouse" (La Souris Blanche, in French) and rightly claimed by NZ and Australia.
Two behind-the-scenes champions of Canberra’s theatre scene took top honours at the fourth annual Ovations Awards, at the Hellenic Club on Friday night.
With the name Emily O’Mahoney, there’s a fair chance of Irish ancestry, as HELEN MUSA finds when she catches up with the actor playing the lead role in Never Closer, a 2022 drama by Australian playwright Grace Chapple.
For Canberrans, 2026 is going to be a very good year for those interested in William Shakespeare and his work, writes NOEL BEDDOE.
Canberra theatre director Chris Baldock scooped the pool at the 31st Combined Area Theatre Awards (CATS), held on Saturday at The Q in Queanbeyan.
Narrabundah College student Wajanoah Donohoe will head to Sydney next week for a week-long scholarship placement with Bell Shakespeare.
Canberra’s thriving independent theatre scene is currently the most active and vibrant it has been since the 1990s – and it’s not just confined to the inner city and suburbs.
Patrons of The Q can comfortably expect a year of delicious entertainment if artistic director Jordan Best’s announcement of the 2026 theatre season on Monday evening was anything to go by.
Busy artistic director of The Q in Queanbeyan, Jordan Best, has made life a little busier by casting herself in the double roles of Titania and Hippolyta in an upcoming revival of her outdoor A Midsummer Night’s Dream, writes HELEN MUSA.
Cementing its reputation as one of the go-to places for play watching, ACT Hub announced its fifth annual season at a celebratory event at the Old Causeway Hall in Kingston on Thursday.
"The play God takes on an intriguing courtroom form as it pulls the audience into considering the ethics of assisted dying," writes reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.
“This show is equal parts comedy, chaos, and blasphemy… The Exorcist meets Sesame Street, with more swearing. Perfect for December," says director Jarrad West, who is reviving the play Hand to God.
Tom Stoppard has "died peacefully at home" at the age of 88, United Agents says.
