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Theatre
news

Bell Shakespeare announces its 2021 season

The company brings back Hamlet, forced to close this year after a week and a half, John Bell reflects on a life with Shakespeare and Peter Evans directs A Midsummer Night's Dream.

November 5, 2020
Theatre, Visual Art
features

Drawn to Theatre

How Nicholas Harding started drawing actors from the wings.

October 19, 2020
Theatre
news

Bell Shakespeare announces film festival

The Bell Shakespeare Shorts Festival is open to Australian primary and secondary students.

April 3, 2020
Theatre
features

Mother and (female) son

Lisa McCune is thrilled to be making her Shakespearean debut as Gertrude in Hamlet.

March 9, 2020
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Hamlet (Bell Shakespeare)

An eloquent, stylish production, set in the 1960s, with a dazzling performance by Harriet Gordon-Anderson as Hamlet.

March 5, 2020
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Hecate (Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, Perth Festival)

A haunting, profoundly theatrical adaptation of Macbeth performed in Noongar.

February 11, 2020
Theatre
features

Kylie Bracknell’s bold and brave Macbeth

The writer-director discusses her Noongar-language interpretation of Shakespeare’s play, which puts the spotlight on an oft-excluded character.

January 23, 2020
Theatre
news

Bell Shakespeare announces its 2020 season

In its 30th year the company revisits Hamlet, the first play it ever staged, this time with a female actor in the title role, and The Comedy of Errors.

August 30, 2019
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Much Ado About Nothing (Bell Shakespeare)

This touring production of Shakespeare's rom-com ably marries laughs and feminism.

July 19, 2019
Theatre
features

How do you resolve the misogyny in Much Ado About Nothing?

Zindzi Okenyo, who plays Beatrice, and director James Evans talk about gender dynamics and Elizabethan slang ahead of Bell Shakespeare's new production of the comedy.

July 4, 2019
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Miser (Bell Shakespeare)

Justin Fleming's writing is ingenious, but a pacier, more energetic production would heighten the play's impact.

March 7, 2019
Theatre
features

John Bell meets Scrooge McDuck

The veteran actor returns to Bell Shakespeare to star as Molière’s stingy Miser.

February 28, 2019
Classical Music, Orchestral, Theatre
news

The Australian Chamber Orchestra forced to find temporary headquarters

With the orchestra’s lease at Circular Quay ending in December and delays to new studios in Pier 2/3, the orchestra will have to find a new home in 2020.

February 22, 2019

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