Canberra Repertory is about to embark on its most ambitious show of the 2026 season, The Glass Menagerie, and it has a world expert on Tennessee Williams at the helm of the production, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Billed as "a tasty recipe of hysterical laughs, sexual innuendos, unsuccessful repressions and delicious discoveries", the play 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche is coming to ACT Hub, reports HELEN MUSA.
Albert Camus's Caligula, directed by Isaiah Prichard and presented by Performative Theatre Company, is "an unlikely amalgam of Rocky Horror, Shakespeare's Macbeth and Brecht's Arturo Ui", reviews JOE WOODWARD.
Sydney Fringe hit Gia Ophelia, written by playwright Grace Wilson and directed by Canberra-born Jo Bradley, is coming to Canberra for a limited season at the Courtyard Studio.
A new theatre company, directed by Isaiah Prichard, is mounting a production of Albert Camus’s rarely performed Caligula. Arts editor HELEN MUSA has the story.
The theatre industry wants help to cope with soaring costs that have meant curtains even for certified hits such as Beetlejuice the Musical.
Directed by Lee Lewis and being performed at Canberra Theatre, Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias has a "zippy script, full of scintillating one-liners", guaranteeing "a ripping night", writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
JOE WOODWARD reviews Patrick Vermillion's black comedy The Good Boy Game directed by Caitlin Baker and being performed at The Q.
If your vision of the Italian extended family is rose-tinted, Frank Lotito's comedy The Italian Divorce, coming soon to The Q, may give you pause for thought, writes HELEN MUSA.
In its latest production 'Letters to Lindy', Australia's longest continuously running theatre company, Lieder Theatre Company, revisits the extraordinary media vilification of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, reviews arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"Though it is subtly entertaining and insightful, this isn’t exactly a fun experience. But nor should it be." ARNE SJOSTEDT reviews Canberra Rep's production of David Williamson's play Travelling North.
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews a performance of Terence Rattigan's play The Deep Blue Sea.
David Williamson's much-performed 1979 work Travelling North is coming soon to Canberra Rep Theatre.
"One of Canberra’s favourite stage performers, Amanda Bishop, will soon be back on the stage of The Playhouse, playing Truvy, the owner of the fictional hairdressing salon at the centre of Steel Magnolias," reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The first Q The Locals show of 2026 coming up at the Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre sounds like it’s fun, but what we’ll see on stage is anything but an innocent game, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"This play is not a Whodunnit, rather it is a Will-He-Get-Away-With-It?" LEN POWER reviews Dial M for Murder.
Terence Rattigan is not a name often heard in theatre circles these days, but ACT Hub is about to set that to rights with its coming production of his play The Deep Blue Sea, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"It’s playful stuff with a sensible Austen heroine at its centre who is surrounded by unsuitable suitors, a young and feckless sister, and a mother who wants her daughters married off." ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Promise and Promiscuity.
"Although Scott Morrison’s presence hovers over the entire production and largely inspired it, this is a sophisticated work full of shifting perspectives." HELEN MUSA reviews Playback (Or, A Play About But Not Starring a Famous Politician).
