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Theatre
Live Review

Review: Steel Magnolias (Neil Gooding Productions & Woodward Productions)

Every aspect of this staging works to highlight the strengths of Steel Magnolias – to a point where we don’t care about its contrivances.

May 15, 2026
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Shepherd’s Hut (Black Swan State Theatre Company)

A vivid tale of adolescent redemption inhabited by characters existing at the margins of reality.

May 15, 2026
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Romeo & Julie (Mad March Hare & bAKEHOUSE Theatre Co)

Can young love survive in modern day Cardiff? Gary Owen's warmhearted drama puts everything in its way.

May 14, 2026
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Importance of Being Earnest (State Theatre Company South Australia)

Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy about gender, identity and sexuality exuberantly reinvented.

May 13, 2026
Classical Music, Opera, Theatre
news

Introducing the June 2026 issue of Limelight

With TwoSet Violin for its cover stars, the June issue of Limelight is all about artists reshaping the ways in which audiences engage with the arts.

May 12, 2026
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Never Closer (Patalog Theatre & fortyfivedownstairs)

Set during Northern Ireland's Troubles, Grace Chapple's tinderbox drama tells a universal story of past violence and ongoing trauma.

May 11, 2026
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Waitress (John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia)

This all-American musical starring Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Rob Mills is set apart by Grammy winner Sara Bareilles’s songs.

May 8, 2026
News, Theatre
news

Melbourne Theatre Company reports box office hit

MTC's net position worsens in difficult conditions, deteriorating by more than $4 million compared with 2024.

May 8, 2026
Theatre
Live Review

Review: GAME. SET. MATCH. (Malthouse Theatre)

This clever new play written by and starring Megan Wilding seems to be a tennis-themed rom-com – until she starts lobbing truth bombs.

May 8, 2026
Classical Music, Opera, Theatre, Vocal & Choral
news

CreateSA announces funding recipients and international opera project

Sixty projects to share in more than $1 million in funding; State Opera South Australia and Opera Hong Kong to partner up for Hansel & Gretel.

May 7, 2026
Theatre
Live Review

Review: 84 Charing Cross Road (Ensemble Theatre)

The Ensemble's peppy production finds the pulse in the story of an unconsummated transatlantic love affair.

May 7, 2026
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Sapphires (Queensland Theatre Company & Canberra Theatre Centre)

Upbeat but never sugarcoated, this new production of The Sapphires cements its place as an important work in the Australian canon.

May 6, 2026
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Glass Menagerie (Melbourne Theatre Company)

A fine cast led by Alison Whyte is kept too busy with comedy to do justice to the tragedy of Tennessee Williams’s memory play.

May 3, 2026

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