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Impressive performances and production values – but Joanna Murray-Smith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley doesn’t quite land

Playwright Joanna Murray-Smith has a long held fascination with the brilliance of Patricia Highsmith, who published the classic novel The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1955.

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The Glass Menagerie: the haunting beauty of Tennessee Wiliams’ play endures in this Sydney revival

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is widely regarded as one of America’s greatest playwrights. A prolific and unabashedly autobiographical writer, Williams’ career spanned four decades of the 20th century.

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Joanna Murray-Smith’s new adaptation of Uncle Vanya reminds us Chekhov’s play is both timeless and timely

Virginia Woolf always maintained that, of all of the great writers, the British novelist Jane Austen “is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness”.

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New play American Signs looks at the nefarious world of consultancies – but leaves Australia off the hook

Anchuli Felicia King’s new one-performer piece, American Signs, written for the talented Catherine Văn-Davies, thrusts us into the world of a campus hire at “The Firm”, one of the “Big Three” consultancies in the United States.

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Performance cancelled after Sydney Theatre Company apology for pro-Palestinian protest on stage

STC says actors’ demonstration ‘hurt many in our community’ while longtime board member resigns

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Chekhov called The Seagull 'a comedy'. The Sydney Theatre Company seems to forget it was a tragedy, too

What is comedy?

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The Seagull review – Sigrid Thornton and Toby Schmitz star in contemporary take on Chekhov

Andrew Upton’s adaptation transplants the play’s ensemble to Australia in the early 2000s, where they discover the cost of art and thwarted dreams

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Oil review – Brooke Satchwell and Charlotte Friels magnetic in Ella Hickson’s ambitious epic

The audacious play leaps through space and time to tell the geopolitical story of crude oil through the lens of a mother and daughter as they reckon with their complicity

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A gothic, brilliant success: The Poison of Polygamy brings the first Chinese-Australian novel to the stage after 113 years

Review: The Poison of Polygamy, directed by Courtney Stewart, La Boite and Sydney Theatre Company.

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Do Not Go Gentle review – a profound exploration of ageing and dementia

Patricia Cornelius’s play co-opts Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the south pole to follow a band of adventurers who are actually in an aged care home

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Sydney Theatre Company's Julia powerfully imagines the life and emotions of the woman behind the 'misogyny speech'

Just over 10 years ago, then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard stood up in the House of Representatives to deliver one of the most unforgettable political speeches in recent memory.

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Julia review – new play about Julia Gillard misses an opportunity

Justine Clarke is electrifying delivering the former PM’s misogyny speech, but the work fails to reckon with the complexities of her legacy

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A Broadcast Coup review – a wry #MeToo comedy with all too familiar characters

Melanie Tait draws from her own broadcast background in this witty study of a misbehaving radio host and his cut-throat nemesis – though not all the jokes land

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Hubris & Humiliation review – this queer take on Jane Austen is startlingly good

Lewis Treston’s witty and polished play blends Regency language and Australian slang to deliver a dizzying amount of jokes and sizzling romantic tension

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RBG: Of Many, One is a beautifully crafted, virtuosically performed play about Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Review: RBG: Of Many, One, directed by Priscilla Jackman, Sydney Theatre Company

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RBG: Of Many, One review – Ruth Bader Ginsburg play is sincere, but slips into triteness

Suzie Miller’s play about the US supreme court justice is thoughtful and occasionally frustrating – but it feels like Australia isn’t the true intended audience

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The Lifespan of a Fact review – sparky journalism dramedy falls short of big ideas

Sigrid Thornton and Charles Wu star in a rapid-fire play, recounting US essayist John D’Agata’s real-life run-in with a pedantic fact-checker

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With The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the Sydney Theatre Company gives us a Brontë adaptation for our moment

Review: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, directed by Jessica Arthur for the Sydney Theatre Company

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Glace Chase writes trans love onto Australian theatre's main stage with Triple X at Sydney Theatre Company

Two-time Griffin Award winner Glace Chase moved to New York and quit writing for theatre. She now returns to Australian stages with the intimate and revealing semi-autobiographical play Triple X.

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