Limelight’s Top Shows of 2019: Theatre
With the year drawing to a close, we look back over the theatre that wowed our critics in 2019.
With the year drawing to a close, we look back over the theatre that wowed our critics in 2019.
It’s closely followed by Hayes Theatre Co’s American Psycho and Belvoir and Co-Curious’ Counting and Cracking, both with nine nods each.
Tommy Murphy’s new play puts patriarchal power under the microscope.
A glittering new musical comedy about a poorly understood and often underestimated force of nature – teenage girls in love.
The collective power of fangirls is huge, director Paige Rattray tells us ahead of the new musical coming to Queensland Theatre and Belvoir.
From Virginia Woolf and Caryl Churchill to brand new works by Michelle Law and S. Shakthidharan, Eamon Flack’s latest season seeks to make sense of the “bewilderment and insanity” of 2020.
Once again it was Counting and Cracking's night as the epic new play from Belvoir and Co-Curious took home three more awards.
International theatrical phenomenon Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Belvoir's Counting and Cracking lead the way with eight nominations each.
A warm and enveloping piece of theatre.
Kate Mulvany is brilliant in this raw but heartfelt, life-affirming show.
Alice Chance talks about synesthesia, Eurovision, the musical Fangirls, and her new string quartet for the Bowral Autumn Music Festival.
A rich portrait of a girls’ indoor soccer team that captures all the awkwardness, pain and joy of soon to be shed adolescence.
An exciting, ambitious new Australian play, in six languages, that unites the personal and political in powerful, moving fashion.