Sarah Kane's final play needs a doctor in the house
Sydney psychiatrist Dr Kathryn Lovric helps guide actors toward a nuanced depiction of severe depression.
Elissa Blake is an Arts Writer.
Sydney psychiatrist Dr Kathryn Lovric helps guide actors toward a nuanced depiction of severe depression.
Esther Hannaford digs deep to play one of the legends of pop in a musical devoted to a life in music.
A new Australian musical, Melba, tells the story of superstar opera singer Dame Nellie Melba's rise to fame.
Jack Nicholson's famed portrayal of R.P. McMurphy in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest looms over this theatre version of the story.
Asian-Australian playwright Michele Lee believes the word "diverse" is becoming a problem. She wants to see artists of colour becoming the new normal.
Marcia Hines steps out of her moonboot and into high heels for the return season of disco cabaret Velvet.
"I think entertainment is a dirty word," says playwright Patricia Cornelius. "I don't ever want to see a middle class dinner party on stage again."
The Jewish moneylender Shylock is a lightning rod for racial abuse in The Merchant of Venice but he's not the only one who feels it.
Across many of the major playwriting awards in Australia, there is sometimes a disconnect between what is great literature and what is great playwriting.
An "arcane form" is brought back to life and made to resonate with modern audiences by Simon Tedeschi and John Bell.
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