Eurydice play turns the spotlight on the female psyche
Arts editor HELEN MUSA previews the upcoming season of American playwright Sarah Ruhl’s play Eurydice, where the ancient myth is shown from the female perspective.
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Reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN says the new Aunty Louise Brown Park outside The Q turns out to be just the space for Echo Theatre’s lively take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Charles Dickens is often credited with having invented Christmas as we know it, so news that Canberra Theatre's next big production, Jack Maggs, is based on Dickens may have patrons quivering with Yuletide excitement, writes HELEN MUSA.
Likening the Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre’s 2025 theatre program to a patchwork quilt, The Q's artistic director Jordan Best promised it would be “always colourful, interesting and full of excitement”.
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Murder cast rebel against the writer and the fun begins…
"Canberra Rep usually presents a fun and enjoyable end-of-year show. This very funny play and its highly effective production make this one of the most memorable." LEN POWER reviews the comedy Bloody Murder.
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When the persecuted become the persecutors
"Ben Rivers is a slowly compelling performer, whether speaking, dancing or breaking into song; focused and skilled." ALANNA MACLEAN reviews The Invaders’ Fear of Memories.
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Hub’s ambitious season of 11 productions and a mini-festival
At a lively event onstage at the Causeway Hall in Kingston, ACT Hub unveiled an ambitious season of 11 productions and a mini-festival of plays on Thursday evening.
Jordan Best's coming production of A Midsummer Night's Dream will also serve as the effective unveiling of the newly-landscaped Aunty Louise Brown Park directly outside The Q, writes HELEN MUSA.
"A show with a difference, about difference, that deserves to find its audience." ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Drizzle Boy at The Playhouse.
An actor known for penetrating the surface of stage characters to show us their inner workings was presented with the Helen Tsongas Award for Excellence in Acting at the ACT Arts Awards on Tuesday evening.
BILL STEPHENS reviews Marcel Cole's performance of Smile: The Story of Charlie Chaplin.
"Seeing it performed on stage is a must for anyone with a sense of theatre history." JOE WOODWARD reviews The Street Theatre's production of Waiting for Godot.
"A short season but a good little show." ALANNA MACLEAN reviews A Balloon Will Pop At Some Point During This Play, a solo show written and performed by Andrew Macmillan.
In a sweeping gesture signalling generational change, the 92 -year-old Canberra Rep has announced a line-up of almost entirely youthful directors for its 2025 season, repots arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Street Theatre director Caroline Stacey is determined that audiences should know that Waiting for Godot is not a difficult intellectual play, but one that “offers an affirming act of hope”, writes HELEN MUSA.
"Referencing much of their 25 years, Jonathan Biggins, Mandy Bishop, Drew Forsythe, Phillip Scott and David Whitney exceeded expectations with this final season." JOE WOODWARD reviews The Wharf Revue – The End of the Wharf As We Know It.
LEN POWER reviews Tempo Theatre's production of Agatha Christie's Love from a Stranger, directed by John Elphick.
Lisa Freshwater has been appointed to the new role of executive producer at Canberra Theatre Centre.
There are very few school teachers who live to see themselves immortalised in bricks and mortar, but Joe Woodward, director of The Daramalan Theatre Company (and CityNews theatre critic), is one of them, writes HELEN MUSA.
