Culture
Theatre
Lifting the veil on the mundane life of the royal family
Melanie Tait has unearthed a fascinating story about the British royals.
- by John Shand, Cassie Tongue and Peter McCallum
Latest
An unflinching footy play is coming back. And so is a David Williamson classic
The MTC’s 2025 line-up includes a work that draws from Adam Goodes’ career, a play starring Sigrid Thornton and an award-winning musical.
- by Cameron Woodhead
The Aussie screen legend making an ‘electrifying’ stage comeback
Belvoir Street Theatre’s 2025 season features Judy Davis in her first stage acting role since 2011, in Helen Garner’s The Spare Room.
- by Linda Morris
Brisbane Festival: These fairy tales are not for kids
Shake & Stir’s darkly funny Grimm leans into the sex and violence of European folk stories.
- by Nick Dent
Opinion
Arts
The idea that selling off the Regent will help the arts is laughable
The lord mayor has outlined a plan to take from the arts to give to the arts. Melbourne deserves better.
- by Elizabeth Flux
Cents and sensibility: The new certainty playing out in theatres
He is the artistic director who knows how to bring the wow factor to theatre audiences, championing the new, confronting taboos. But, right now, there is a problem.
- by Cassidy Knowlton
Sydney Theatre Company leans on TV star power in big season reveal
Logies Hall of Fame inductee, Rebecca Gibney, headlines a list of “national treasures” Kip Williams has recruited to lead the flagship company’s 2025 season.
- by Linda Morris
★★★½
Review
Black Mirror in a box: Brisbane Festival’s Volcano is an all-dancing space oddity
It wouldn’t be an arts festival if there was not at least one show that was challenging and a little bewildering.
- by Nick Dent
★★★★
Review
Brisbane Festival: Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show is no Eurotrash
The autobiographical revue by fashion’s ultimate gender bender is a saucy crowd-pleaser bursting at the seams with talent and creativity.
- by Nick Dent
West End Electric ready to light up Brisbane’s theatre scene
A disused brick building on Boundary Street has been brought back to life as a 400-seat cabaret club just in time for Brisbane Festival.
- by Nick Dent
★★★
Review
Great acting. Shame about the play ...
Our reviewers cast a critical eye over the latest shows around town.
- by John Shand, Chantal Nguyen, Bernard Zuel, Peter McCallum and Frances Howe