A playwright's churn-and-burn approach to comedy wears thin in this story of cosmetics queens to refuse to make up.

"There is no reason why you can't have as many women on stage as men in these worlds," says Bell Shakespeare's Peter Evans. "We want gender parity to be the new normal, not the exception."

Mikey Weinkove uses pizza-making and other forms of audience participation to get people talking.

Humour has always been a way for Rosie Waterland to find her way of the dark places, writes Karen Hardy

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The show is about intimacy and that warmth remains despite the apparent loneliness of many characters.

The Guru of Chai is a charming tale of Indian culture and the resilience of its people

Writer Douglas McGrath spent hours interviewing rock'n'roll royalty to create a musical about Carole King's life. As the show comes to Australia, he reflects on the real-life romances and relationships behind the hit songs.

There's plenty to see and do in Canberra over the next week.

Artistic director Sam Strong launched the company's 2018 season, featuring eight shows and a host of local talent.

Sardonic humour flashes like lightning in the dark in this haunting final play.

Sydney psychiatrist Dr Kathryn Lovric helps guide actors toward a nuanced depiction of severe depression.

Shows about falling in love and lust for inanimate objects will roll out at Carriageworks.

Taylor Mac's brilliantly written domestic comedy-drama gifts Helen Thomson with one of the best roles of an already stellar career.

This tongue-in-cheek account of love's trajectory is imaginative and entertaining.

Ranters Theatre based a play on real-life conversations between strangers.

Poet Joshua Bell's verse was the basis for CYT's new immersive work of theatre.

There's plenty to see and do in Canberra this week.

Australian singer Paulini Curuenavuli is facing charges of bribery and is due to appear in a Sydney court midway through her run in the musical The Bodyguard.

With just two hours' notice that he would have to "go on" because one of his leading actors had been felled by the flu, there was no time for Ensemble Theatre artistic director Mark Kilmurry to be nervous.

Lally Katz's drama has a lot to say about how people relate to each other.

Pigeonhole Theatre is presenting a fundraising performance of its award-winning debut show.

A graphic production by an up-and-coming American playwright has already seen one Australian faint during its most "intense" scene.

A troubling tale of two Australias that spans the perils of privilege and the despair of drug addiction.

As one of theatre's greats returns to the stage, an Archibald Prize-winner sits in on rehearsals to sketch the process.