Theatre

Frame Narrative is New Ghosts Theatre Company’s first production as artistic directors at Sydney’s venerable Old Fitz, and its central theme is the labour of theatremaking.

In almost four decades of acting, Nadine Garner, now starring in Melbourne Theatre Company’s The Almighty Sometimes, has seen the stage and screen become kinder places.

Peter Evans’s delightful production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Bell Shakespeare puts the mechanicals at the centre of its magic.

Sam Mendes’s epic Wall Street production, The Lehman Trilogy, is a stunningly well-crafted family saga – and that’s its problem.

The Pram Factory – home of the radical 1970s theatre collective the Australian Performing Group – taught Evelyn Krape she had a voice.

Maxine Beneba Clarke’s bestselling memoir The Hate Race is brilliantly translated to the stage at Malthouse Theatre.

Gaslight, a new Queensland Theatre adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play, features stunning production values but falls short on suspense.

Melbourne Theatre Company’s first show for the year, Seventeen, is charming in many ways. But is that enough?

Andrew Upton’s thoughtful and affecting adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull traverses ideas of art, ambition, passion and change.

Queensland Theatre’s production of  Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone considers the long shadow of war on those who suffer through it.