Theatre

Peter and the Starcatcher, a prequel to Peter Pan, attempts a sprawling tale of piracy, magic and colonisation but never delivers depth.

Almost a decade after its Broadway premiere, a slick production of the hit musical Dear Evan Hansen lays bare its flaws.

Two new works from some of Australia’s most acclaimed theatre artists interrogate in sharp and insightful ways the performance of gender and the damage it inflicts.

In The Poetry of Violence, Bell Shakespeare artistic director Peter Evans creates an entertaining animated lecture of Shakespearean highlights.

MTC offers a rare opportunity to enjoy the brilliance of Suzan-Lori Parks’s work, with a devastating production of her Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Topdog/Underdog.

Nathan Joe’s Scenes from a Yellow Peril – the second production for Queensland Theatre’s DOOR 3 – combines rage, sadness and wit in a powerful commentary on contemporary Australia.

Tim Minchin’s career has been a mixture of luck and hard work – and now, with the release of his new book, he’s coming out from behind the piano.

Martyna Majok’s groundbreaking play Cost of Living exploits the deliciously dark edge of disability humour, giving its characters complexity, while skewering assumptions.

Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is a nuanced departure from the blueprint created by Elia Kazan’s classic film.

For all its promise of a bloodily feminist retelling of Shakespeare, Zinnie Harris’s Macbeth (An Undoing) at Malthouse Theatre is disappointingly banal.