Editor’s Picks

On the pain of women: First Nations Emerging Critic Carissa Lee explores how Australian plays portray violence against women.

The beginning of theatre as we know it now. In Video Histories: Episode 5.1: Witness historian Robert Reid looks at the beginning of the era of subsidised theatre.

In this month’s Witness Podcast, Carissa Lee, Robert Reid and Alison Croggon look at the mechanisms of discourse. How do we manage conversations about the problems we face in our community, such as the revelations around #MeToo?

Australian main stages are finally catching up with multiracial casting. It’s about time. Alison Croggon on the MTC’s An Ideal Husband and Bell Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

This production insists, gently but powerfully, on the human contact at the heart of performance.” Alison Croggon on Taha, Amer Hlehel’s tribute to the great Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali 

Witness First Nations Emerging Critic Carissa Lee says Nakkiah Lui’s Blackie Blackie Brown is exactly the superhero she needs

If the Australian media understood theatre instead of dissing it, we might have a better chance of seeing our politics clearly. Alison Croggon explains why.

Fanfare! As we threatened, we have put together an exciting program of Melbourne Live Nights with our Stage Partners, in which you come to the theatre with us and tell us what you thought. This is Book Club for theatre: an informal chat after a show, facilitated by Witness.

When representation isn’t enough: Tom Middleditch of A_tistic Theatre looks at the knotty question of diversity in creative teams

“The life of the building is in its communities, not in the thousands of layers of paint that once covered the walls.” Robert Reid on the aftermath of the fire at La Mama.