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Fire destroyed Belvoir theatre’s precious ‘library of things’. Now it is rising from the ashes

Staff scrambled to pull together a show after their sets, props and costumes were ruined in a huge fire. Ahead of its new production, the team reflects on what was lost – and gained

The Guardian - AU

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead review – the radical, angry heart of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel is missing

Belvoir St Theatre, SydneyPamela Rabe is brilliant in this adaptation of the Nobel laureate’s novel, but its deeply felt sense of horror and grief is gone

The Guardian - AU

A stage adaptation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is truly singular, and genuinely memorable

Like all true visionaries, the English poet William Blake was light-years ahead of his time: a fierce critic of industrial modernity and a thinker deeply suspicious of any mindset that might turn the world into something to be dominated. His work also treats non-human life as morally significant, with abuse…

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Nothing much comes of nothing in Belvoir’s new version of King Lear

Since its first performance in 1606, King Lear has earned its place as Shakespeare’s largest and most revered powerhouse tragedy.

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Belvoir St theatre’s 2026 season to be headlined by 24-year-old debut playwright

The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham is one of six literary adaptations to be staged at the Sydney theatre next year, alongside The Birds, A Room With a View and the Craig Silvey bestseller Runt

The Guardian - AU

Judy Davis gives a singularly vivid performance in The Spare Room – but the play falls short

In The Spare Room, Judy Davis lights up the stage with a singularly vivid performance.

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August: Osage County review – Pamela Rabe leads stellar cast in an American tragicomedy

Belvoir Theatre, Sydney, then Perth in 2025Tracy Letts’ family drama, which sees three generations gather after the disappearance of their patriarch, is beautifully performed

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Helen Garner, Virginia Woolf and Max Porter headline Belvoir St theatre’s 2025 program

‘Electrifying’ Judy Davis will star in adaptation of The Spare Room, with Colin Friels as King Lear later in the season

The Guardian - AU

Counting and Cracking: how a three-hour Sri Lankan war epic became one of the great Australian plays

Five years since its debut, this gripping intergenerational story is still going in Australia and heads to New York this year. So why do we love S Shakthidharan’s play so much?

The Guardian - AU

Holding the Man review – tragic love story makes space for queer joy … but bring tissues

Timothy Conigrave’s memoir about a love affair cut short by Aids finds new life – and light – in this emotionally potent production

The Guardian - AU

Debut poet Grace Yee wins $125,000 for ‘feminist vision’ at Victorian premier’s literary awards

Yee won the Victorian prize for literature and the poetry category for her collection Chinese Fish, while Melissa Lukashenko won the fiction prize

The Guardian - AU

Belvoir's The Master and Margarita: astonishingly ambitious, physically demanding and a resounding success

Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov’s cult novel The Master and Margarita has inspired many artists.

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Into The Woods review – Australian take on Sondheim masterpiece needs more time to soar

With standout turns from Esther Hannaford and Tamsin Carroll, and some inventive, whimsical choices, the fractured-fairytale musical fails to truly take off

The Guardian - AU

The Jungle and the Sea, follow-up to Counting and Cracking, uses theatre as a safe space to discuss Sri Lankan civil war

For years, Anandavalli stayed silent about her country's civil war but then her playwright son, S. Shakthidharan, started writing about it anyway. Now, she stars in his latest play.

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The Jungle and the Sea reminds us war is profoundly local, with the intimate negotiation of human relationships

Review: The Jungle and the Sea, directed by Eamon Flack, Belvoir.

The Guardian - AU

The Jungle and the Sea review – Sri Lankan civil war drama lifts joy above trauma

Play by the creators of the Helpmann-winning Counting and Cracking shows people living and loving despite danger, but sometimes minimises the horrors

The Guardian - UK

‘An epic drawn from real life’: the radical hit play about a Sri Lankan family’s journey

Counting and Cracking, a multilingual tale of a family’s migration to Australia, is coming to the UK. Its writer Shakthi and director Eamon Flack discuss the inspiration behind this labour of love

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The show must go on: How Australia’s performing arts sector has survived two years of COVID

After two years of cancellations and billions of dollars lost, we take stock of the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on Australia’s performing arts and the challenges ahead.

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