Stage shows
The world’s biggest role-playing game turns 50
Fifty years since it was first created, D&D has become a global cultural phenomenon.
- by Michael Idato
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He received death threats for a joke about Jesus, now Reuben Kaye is in Jesus Christ Superstar
The cabaret star is the “power-hungry, extravagant child nepo baby” King Herod in the latest revival of the enduring musical.
- by Cassidy Knowlton
Dancing mermaids and salty pirates: The show that revels in being ‘something Netflix can’t do’
It won five Tony awards, now the hit Broadway show Peter and the Starcatcher has been given an Australian makeover.
- by Lenny Ann Low
‘The next Fleabag’: How Something Terrible became just the opposite
Australian-born playwright Marcelo Dos Santos knew he was on a winner when the woman behind Fleabag and Baby Reindeer got on board.
- by Richard Jinman
The love triangle that inspired some of our best-known artworks
Nikki Shiels stars in a new play that unpacks the significance of the infamous Heide Circle.
- by Cassie Tongue
Eddie Perfect returns to Melbourne for his most terrifying role yet
“There’s not a huge number of places to hide if it doesn’t work. I can’t blame the music and the lyrics. I wrote them.”
- by Meg Watson
It starts with a lie, but this musical will teach you to be a better human
As Beau Woodbridge prepares to take the stage for Dear Evan Hansen, the actor and show’s director talk about the musical’s dark subject.
- by Lenny Ann Low
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Sarah Snook’s Dorian Gray was a West End triumph. Now it’s heading to Broadway
Having wowed audiences in London, the Succession star is set to take on New York in the brilliantly reimagined Oscar Wilde tale.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
‘There’s nothing like it’: Sydney’s strangest, most secretive stage show turns 60
Believed to be the longest-running theatrical production in Australia, the annual St Paul’s College production of Victoriana has finally let the cameras inside.
- by Michael Koziol