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Bell Shakespeare launches short film festival for students

April 3 - Film, Theatre

Calling all budding young filmmakers! National theatre company Bell Shakespeare has announced a film festival where students are in the director’s seat. Open to primary and secondary school students Australia-wide, the B...

Melbourne Theatre Company cancels next six productions

March 25 - Theatre

Melbourne Theatre Company has announced the cancellation of its next six productions in a bid to ensure business continuity during this global health crisis. Berlin, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, The Heartbrea...

Single Ladies

March 10 - Theatre

From the award-winning writer of Going Down and Rice, Michele Lee make her Red Stitch Theatre debut this March with the world premiere of Single Ladies – a hilarious buddy story of three lone women told over the co...

The Hitmen

March 10 - Latest Reviews, Theatre

This is a revisiting of sorts for The Hitmen, last seen in Melbourne in 2017. Playright Mish Wittrup has trimmed and tinkered with the script since then, and what played out on the Theatre Works was lean, mean, and hilar...

American Song

March 8 - Latest Reviews, Theatre

One-person plays seem to be in vogue at present. In the last month Canberra audiences have had the opportunity to experience at least three examples, with more promised later in the year. Melbourne playwright, Joanna Mur...

Bitch, Antigone!

March 6 - Theatre

The Gods will be weeping as Out Cast Theatre’s disgracefully disrespectful Edinburgh Fringe comedy hit, Bitch, Antigone! returns to The Butterfly Club this March. Trauma, tantrums and more ham than a Greek deli as three ...

END OF.

March 6 - Theatre

Ash Flanders will have you in stitches as he follows his turbulent river of poor choices back to its source – his heavy-drinking, chain-smoking mother in End Of. at the Northcote Town Hall from 11 March 2020. After...

Triple X

March 6 - Theatre

From the wickedly funny pen of Australian-born, New York-based playwright, comedienne and performer Glace Chase, Queensland Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Triple X in the Bille Brown Th...