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Live Review

Review: The Birds (Belvoir)

Written in the post-WWII period, The Birds feels deeply resonant in an era where misinformation and mistrust loom large.

May 22, 2026
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Belvoir)

Pamela Rabe commands Belvoir’s uneven eco-mystery, where big ideas accumulate without dramatic payoff.

April 10, 2026
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news

Malthouse Theatre announces 2026 Season

A double-take staging of a Hollywood classic the centrepiece of Malthouse Theatre's 2026 program.

October 17, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Troy (Malthouse Theatre)

In a well-cast production of jaw-dropping design and theatricality, playwright Tom Wright returns to Troy to explore timeless themes of war.

September 10, 2025
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news

Belvoir launches Season 2026

A year of new works, acclaimed revivals and creative partnerships to yield stories of kinship, survival, upheaval and community.

September 8, 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
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features

Flocking to the Theatre

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

April 22, 2025
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Live Review

Review: Nucleus (Griffin Theatre Company)

Alana Valentine's new play produces a warm glow as contrasting views are explored and a secret is revealed.

February 24, 2025
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features

Nucleus: Two Truths, One Play

Alana Valentine's new drama explores "uncomfortable, complex truths" in the nuclear energy debate.

January 30, 2025
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Live Review

Review: Sweat (Sydney Theatre Company)

Lynn Nottage’s microcosmic Sweat shows us what happens when the American Dream becomes an impossibility for working people.

November 18, 2024
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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
News, Theatre
news

Griffin Theatre Unpacks 2025 Season

Fissionable drama from Alana Valentine and an irreverent look at life in a nudist eco-resort among Griffin's offerings in 2025.

September 26, 2024
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Master & Margarita (Belvoir)

A giddy-making hayride of a show, Belvoir adapts Bulgakov’s novel with the kind of reckless creativity we imagine was required to write it in the first place.

November 16, 2023

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