Productions now hire advisers to help performers navigate intimate and violent scenes
Reimagining ‘Breaking the Waves’
The creators of this opera on how it adds new depths and agency to von Trier’s 1996 film
Director Robert Icke on rewriting the classic Austrian play to explore contemporary moral conundrums
Celebrating beauty’s passing: ‘Requiem’
Italian director Romeo Castellucci on his radical reimagining of Mozart’s classic
A dream within a dream: ‘Tao of Glass’
Theatremaker Phelim McDermott on his highly personal collaboration with Philip Glass
‘Hecate’: honouring two storytelling traditions
Australia’s first major Shakespearean production in Noongar language will retell ‘Macbeth’ at Perth Festival
Joan Didion’s eerily contemporary ‘The White Album’
The seminal essay’s ongoing resonance is explored in this interactive production coming to Sydney Festival
A tale of triumph and exploitation: ‘Black Cockatoo’
The little-known story of history-making Aboriginal cricketer Johnny Mullagh and his team is told in this new play
Patricia Cornelius: No going gently
‘Anthem’ marks the return of the Australian playwright’s working-class theatre
On Humphries’s brand of confronting comedy and the renaming of the Barry Award