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Theatre
Live Review

Review: Second Coming (La Boite Theatre & Playlab Theatre)


We have a problem. An ambitious world premiere about a Mars mission fails to launch.

August 11, 2026
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Congratulations, Get Rich! / 恭喜发财, 人日快乐 (Sydney Theatre Company & La Boite)

Leaning into Chinese diaspora identity, elements of Merlynn Tong's musical play may be incomprehensible for some, but the humour and pathos will chime with most.

November 28, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Congratulations, Get Rich! (La Boite Theatre & Brisbane Festival)

A hilarious and heart-wrenching new musical comedy about mothers, daughters, ghosts and karaoke.

September 12, 2025
Theatre
features

100 Years Forging Human Connections

La Boite Artistic Director Courtney Stewart tells Jo Litson about the company’s centenary season.

June 23, 2025
Dance, Musical Theatre & Cabaret, News, Theatre
news

Truth and Mischief: Perth Festival 2025

Anna Reece's first Perth Festival promises to light up the sky and fire up the city's old power station in a host of new ways.

November 6, 2024
News, Theatre
news

La Boite Theatre celebrates 100 years with 2025 season

Brisbane's La Boite Theatre brings up the ton with a season of premieres, classics and a dive into the archives.

October 23, 2024
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Golden Blood 黄金血液 (Griffin Theatre Company)

Merlynn Tong's play shows us that it is our internal journey and our relationships – not wealth and status – that matter most on the path to healing.

September 19, 2024
Theatre
news

Sydney Theatre Company reveals 2025 Season

Australian classics reimagined; Joanna Murray-Smith returns to Patricia Highsmith; two recent Melbourne hits included in the calendar.

September 5, 2024
Theatre
news

Griffin announces 2024 season ahead of major redevelopment

The first ever staging of Louis Nowra’s The Lewis Trilogy will serve as a last hurrah for the SBW Stables Theatre as you know it.

September 26, 2023
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Poison of Polygamy (La Boite Theatre & Sydney Theatre Company)

An epic tale full of flawed characters and moral quandaries adapted from the earliest Chinese-language novel published in Australia.

May 13, 2023
Theatre
news

Brisbane’s La Boite Theatre announces 2023 season

Strap yourself in. La Boite Theatre's new Artistic Director Courtney Stewart promises to take audiences "to places they’ve never been".

March 1, 2023
Theatre
news

Griffin Theatre Company announces its 2022 season

The season of six Australian plays, including four world premieres, features plenty of unexpected, incongruous clashes between subject and treatment.

November 23, 2021
Theatre
Live Review

Review: CAESAR (La Boite)

La Boite’s CAESAR pulls apart not only Shakespeare’s text, but the process and shortcomings of theatre making itself.

July 28, 2021

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