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Theatre
Live Review

Review: 84 Charing Cross Road (Ensemble Theatre)

The Ensemble's peppy production finds the pulse in the story of an unconsummated transatlantic love affair.

May 7, 2026
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Social Ladder (Ensemble Theatre)

Ambition, cultural capital and cheap wine collide in a David Wiliamson comedy that leaves the ladder in place.

January 30, 2026
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Dial M for Murder (Ensemble Theatre)

Honouring the mechanics of a well-worn classic, this Dial M slyly reveals how much was lurking in its margins.

December 5, 2025
News, Theatre
news

Sandra Bates Director’s Award recipients announced

Jules Billington and Jessica Fallico next in line for the Ensemble Theatre's career-development program.

November 21, 2025
Theatre
news

Ensemble Theatre 2026 season announced

Hollywood royalty, new Australian plays (including one by David Williamson) and the return of the Middling Cove Players. Dive in!

August 12, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Emerald City (Ensemble Theatre)

In a room tuned to chamber-sized work, David Williamson's Emerald City comes across as shouty and unsubtle. 

July 25, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica (Queensland Theatre)

Retaining the same cast since its 2010 premiere, the passing years have been kind to David Williamson's last-chance-for-love rom com.

June 2, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Lover & The Dumb Waiter (Ensemble Theatre)

Humour to the fore in this pairing of early Harold Pinter works, but the playwright's coded critiques of power don't show through.

May 9, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Glass Menagerie (Ensemble Theatre)

An intense and subtly surreal staging of the semi-autobiographical Tennessee Williams classic.

March 28, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Uncle Vanya (Ensemble Theatre)

Joanna Murray-Smith’s adaption feels faithful to Chekhov’s original portrait of a fractious household stuck in a rut.

August 2, 2024
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Odd Couple (John Frost & Crossroads Live)

Oscar and Felix are back, this time with Shane Jacobson and Todd McKenney in the title roles of Neil Simon’s classic comedy.

May 24, 2024
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Great Divide (Ensemble Theatre)

A billionaire takes on a supermarket shelf stacker in David Williamson's broad but entertaining satire on wealth and power.

March 18, 2024
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Midnight Murder at Hamlington Hall (Ensemble Theatre)

Ensemble Theatre ends its 2023 season with a complete – and very deliberate – shambles of a drawing room thriller.

December 8, 2023

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