Anne-Louise Sarks to lead Melbourne Theatre Company
Anne-Louise Sarks will take over from Brett Sheehy to become the company’s seventh Artistic Director.
Anne-Louise Sarks will take over from Brett Sheehy to become the company’s seventh Artistic Director.
After a year writing for the screen, Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith is ecstatic to be back in the theatre with her new play Berlin, a nail-biting two-hander about young love and inherited guilt.
What’s happening on stage this month? We’ve put together a list of the most exciting events taking place in May 2021.
What’s happening on stage this month? We’ve put together a list of the most exciting events taking place in April 2021.
Virginia Gay brings us a new gender-flipped Cyrano de Bergerac on a program with three new Australian works, two Australian premieres and the postponed As You Like It.
The first half of the year will kick off with a Summer Series of five works in development ahead of two mainstage plays, both two-handers.
Artistic Director Brett Sheehy has described the decision as the “the dreaded conclusion to an incomprehensible year for MTC".
Melbourne’s annual awards ceremony for the performing arts takes stock of 2019’s best and brightest.
This fun satire about 1950s domestic bliss is more style than substance.
For 50 years, David Williamson has been reflecting contemporary Australian society on stage. He talks about the addiction of playwriting, his two new plays, and why it’s best to retire now, while audiences are still coming.
With the year drawing to a close, we look back over the theatre that wowed our critics in 2019.
Six Australian plays, five of them new, a Tony Award-winning musical and contemporary writing from overseas – all relevant to today, says AD Brett Sheehy.
This beautiful, joyous production reveals why the Oscar winning rom-com truly belongs in the theatre.