BELVOIR ST THEATRE

You know Calamity Jane, the old 1950s musical tale of the Wild West and the search for love? Doris Day learning to be ladylike… Well, ...

Jo is in her teens, pregnant, and on her own since her African boyfriend went back to sea. But she’s always had to find her ...

Coranderrk is about what might have been. In the neglected storehouse of Australian history, this is one of the definitive stories. At a Victorian Parliamentary ...

Back in the early 1970s a group of pioneering Indigenous theatremakers occupied a dilapidated terrace in Redfern and started the National Black Theatre. The first ...

Every generation feels the irresistible compulsion to attempt to stage this, the greatest play by the greatest playwright. Then, when we try, we’re haunted by ...

Orestes has come back to bury his father. He has been away a long time. His mother is hardened, his sister is strangely ill. He ...

We love watching plays about couples tearing each other to pieces: George and Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Elyot and Amanda in Private ...

Yarrie Bangura grew up in a camp in Guinea. She is doing her HSC. Aminata Conteh is from Sierra Leone. She is an ambassador for ...

Adena Jacobs’ staging of Ingmar Bergman’s film packed out houses at Melbourne’s Theatre Works in 2012. It was one of the finest pieces of theatre ...

Actually, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is not one play but two. Millennium Approaches and Perestroika were the closing statements of ...

Various forces have gathered in New York: the ex-boyfriend and his Mormon squeeze, the squeeze’s pill-popping wife and Mormon mother, a rabid Republican lawyer, a ...

Gerry is almost 60, and he is going to meet his mother for the first time since he was three. His daughter Sally has had ...

On the one hand, Lally Katz has been writing the funniest and most original plays in the country for the last decade – Neighbourhood Watch, ...

Tennessee Williams is one of the giants of twentieth-century drama and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is his Lear. One era is ending, how ...

Sometimes you need to push. Sissy Gordon’s father died in custody at Mount Druitt Police Station. The cops got a fine, Sissy’s family got $9,000 ...

Everybody knows Peter Pan. He’s the boy who hasn’t grown up in 113 years. But one night not long ago we sat down and read ...

Palm Island. An Aboriginal man is arrested, allegedly for insulting a police officer. Within 90 minutes, he lies dead on the watchhouse floor, his liver ...

"You can think of me as Ruby Wagtail Big Noise Anderson Rangi Ando Heifer Andy Langford.Ruby Langford Ginibi’s Don’t Take Your Love to Town is ...

Two young children on a stage play games to distract themselves. Off-stage and unheard their parents are having a very famous showdown. At some inevitable ...

AMANDA: Darling, I believe you’re talking nonsense. ELYOT: So is everyone else in the long run. Let’s be superficial and pity the poor Philosophers. Let’s ...

In every show we strive to be breathtakingly original. Choreographer Lucy Guerin’s new show for Belvoir takes this to an extreme by striving to be ...

Will you take that phoney dream and burn it before something happens?Willy Loman is feeling his age. He and his wife Linda are struggling to ...

A family under threat – from what, we don’t know – hires a young security guard, Chris. He spends long hours, day and night, by ...

A country highway. A greasy takeaway joint. Two sisters. One of them left, one stayed behind. One chose chaos, the other control. One chose sex, ...

No-one would doubt that Benedict Andrews has a vivid imagination. As a director he has taken some of our most revered classics and turned them ...

Time for a comedy – a mad, gorgeous, bittersweet comedy about how good it is not to be dead yet.A group of more or less ...

"Presented by Belvoir and Sydney Festival in association with Carriageworks. Originally created by THE HAYLOFT PROJECT.A Malthouse Theatre Commission.This production will be staged at Carriageworks, ...

For 18 months theatre-maker Roslyn Oades and her trusty tape recorder followed a determined, young boxer from Bankstown through his preparations for a world-title fight. ...