Emerging playwright plum goes to Melbourne writer
Melbourne playwright Sarah Matthews is the winner of Canberra Youth Theatre’s 2024 Emerging Playwright Commission.
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"Sauce was on edge enough to give the kind of marginalised feel you go to fringe theatre to experience," says reviewer ARNE SJOSTEDT, of the Irish comedy playing at Smiths.
The Australian premiere of an Irish comedy will debut in Canberra, before touring to The Butterfly Club in Melbourne, reports HELEN MUSA.
A student at Canberra Girls' Grammar School is among the four recipients of the 2024 John Bell Scholarship.
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Great expectations in Jack’s stroppy kind of freedom
"There’s a definite statement about the early creation of one kind of Australian identity born out of the convict system." ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Jack Maggs.
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Cash-strapped: jobs go as Canberra Youth Theatre ‘pauses’
In news that has members of Canberra's theatre community reeling, the 52-year-old Canberra Youth Theatre has announced that it will drop all productions in 2025, but it will not close its doors.
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Eurydice presents couple a monumental task
"Sarah Ruhl’s acclaimed play accomplishes much in just about an hour. Its brevity demands an economy of expression that conveys immense emotional depth." ARNE SJOSTEDT reviews Eurydice, at the Mill Theatre.
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.
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”.
"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.
"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.
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.
