Sydney’s Belvoir Street Theatre has unveiled its 2026 season: nine mainstage works, late-night provocations and return seasons. In Artistic Director Eamon Flack’s words, the year’s artists are all posing variations of the one question: “What can we make possible?”

The season opens on 8 January with Dear Son, a collaboration between Queensland Theatre and State Theatre Company South Australia, co-presented with Sydney Festival.

Based on Thomas Mayo’s book, and adapted by Isaac Drandic and John Harvey, the production brings a cast of Indigenous actors – among them Jimi Bani, Trevor Jamieson, Waangenga Blanco and Aaron Pedersen – to read and talk over letters written to their fathers and sons. The result is part testimony, part blessing: a mosaic of voices about kinship, masculinity and the future.

Trevor Jamieson in Dear Son. Photo © David Kelly

The work premiered in Brisbane earlier this year to unanimously positive reviews. “Powerful in its raw, unabashed vulnerability, Dear Son offers an emotionally complex examination of First Nations masculinity and...