Belvoir has announced an exciting program of 10 plays for 2023, including a Stephen Sondheim musical and an adaptation of a best-selling Australian novel.

Announcing the season, Belvoir Artistic Director Eamon Flack said, “Our headlong love of Australian stories continues – seven of them, including two great new Indigenous plays, a Chinese-Australian comedy in three languages, a lesbian divorce dramedy (yes that’s a genre now), an astonishing, thought-provoking, heart-hitting play about life in the climate era, and Charlotte Wood’s beautiful novel The Weekend comes to the stage.”

“Then there’s the music, and a lot of it this year – I guess because we’ve all had enough of realism in real life. We’re doing our first ever Stephen Sondheim musical. When he died last year, the great Australian critic Peter Craven made the call that Sondheim is the Shakespeare of music theatre. We agree.”

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Belvoir, 2023. Photo courtesy of Belvoir

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