First seen at London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in 2024, this Olivier Award-winning production, directed by Jordan Fein, transferred to the Barbican, where it became the venue’s best-selling musical of all time. Set in 1905, Tevye, a milkman in the tiny fictional village of Anatevka, tries to maintain his…

Chekov’s achingly sad yet mordantly funny play finds fresh life in this adaptation by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, first staged by Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre in 2024. Now, Anne-Louise Sarks directs a new production for MTC. Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya have spent years managing a run-down country estate in rural…

When Neil Armfield directed a new production of Arthur Miller’s timeless tragedy, Death of a Salesman, in 2023 with Anthony LaPaglia as Willy Loman and Alison Whyte as his long-suffering wife Linda, the reviews were ecstatic. In a five-star rave, Limelight said the “outstanding” production is “so gripping the audience doesn’t make…

Patricia Cornelius’s 2006 play, Do Not Go Gentle, which takes his title from Dylan Thomas’s poem, is a poetically powerful depiction of old age and dementia. Set in an aged care home, a group of residents imagine themselves taking part in Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed 1911 expedition to the South…