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Theatre
Live Review

Review: ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen (NSP & Malthouse)

With a different performer cold-reading every night, plus some video trickery, playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s new show is enjoyably unsettling.

July 16, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Birds (Malthouse Theatre)

Matthew Lutton's farewell production fails to fly, with Du Maurier's apocalyptic vision blurred by the immersive headphone experience.

May 23, 2025
Chamber, Classical Music, Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Opera, Orchestral, Theatre, Vocal & Choral
features

On Stage: the events you need to see in June 2025

The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.

May 19, 2025
Theatre
features

Flocking to the Theatre

Louise Fox tells Jo Litson about her visceral new stage adaptation of The Birds.

April 22, 2025
Chamber, Classical Music, Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Opera, Theatre
features

On Stage: the events you need to see in May 2025

The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.

April 22, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Truth (Malthouse Theatre)

This new play by Patricia Cornelius explores the importance and price of dissent with varied impact.

February 19, 2025
News, Theatre
news

Matthew Lutton leaves Malthouse

Matthew Lutton to pursue new creative ventures in international theatre and opera after nine years as Malthouse Theatre's Artistic Director.

January 30, 2025
Theatre
features

Season Preview 2025: Theatre

What do our theatre companies have on offer in the year ahead?

December 20, 2024
Classical Music, Festivals, Opera, Orchestral, Theatre
features

On Stage: the events you need to see in January/February 2025

The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.

December 20, 2024
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Made in China 2.0 (Arts Centre Melbourne & Malthouse Theatre)

Like all good art, this solo production forces you to re-examine your assumptions and confront some revealing truths.

November 12, 2024
News, Theatre
news

Malthouse Theatre lowers barriers for 2025 Season

A Julian Assange bio-play, Du Maurier's The Birds, a Trojan epic – and ticket prices "lowered across the board".

October 10, 2024
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Macbeth (An Undoing) (Malthouse Theatre)

Shakespeare’s play is given a feminist shake-up, but this sometimes pedestrian, occasionally unclear take comes undone.

July 11, 2024
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Homo Pentacostus (Malthouse Theatre)

A soul-searching, bracingly honest reflection by two gay men on the complexities of their spiritual and cultural inheritance.

May 16, 2024

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