Children’s theatre

Alan Brough’s new musical for children suffers from thoughtless stereotyping, says youth critic Gully Thompson

15-year-old Gully Thompson investigates online pandemic theatre for children and finds that La Mama’s Super Jenny is pretty close to super

For 14 year old Gully Thompson, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is merely an exercise in nostalgia and visual dazzle

‘This is not a show: it’s a wake-up call.’ Youth critic Gully Thompson on Born in a Taxi’s Children of the Evolution

Youth critic Gully Thompson is both enraptured and frustrated by Unicorn Theatre’s The End of Eddy

Our youth correspondent Gully Thompson on the Melbourne season of Terrapin’s A Not So Traditional Story, opening soon at the Brisbane Festival

‘The level of the audience’s participation in the show, whether it was screams, cheers, boos or bear growls, was something to behold’: youth critic Gully Thompson on Black Honey’s One the Bear

Podcast: The Witness Interview with Candy Bowers. ‘You are asking someone from the field into the house, and we are going to fight. Because I will always fight to decentralise the white patriarchy’

According to youth critic Gully Thompson, Whoosh! – a show designed for children with autism or complex disabilities – is a total knockout

The stage adaptation of Colin Thiele’s beloved book Storm Boy is “a carnival of theatrical colonialism and missed opportunities”, says Monique Grbec