Vox Motus’ Flight is a powerful artwork about child asylum seekers that drives home global realities, says young critic Gully Thompson
Dioramas, still figures displayed motionlessly in a scene, might seem to be […]

Twin Peaks, Lady Gaga, the Wizard of Oz and Santa Claus: UK critic Megan Vaughan reviews Adena Jacobs and Marg Horwell’s trashy interpretation of Salome at the English National Opera in London
It is an o […]

This month, we’re heading West
November’s Live Night, courtesy of our Stage Partner The Substation, is a chance to delve into the culture of western Melbourne, with a remount by Donna Jackson of Vicky Reynolds’ […]

The rights of women to bodily autonomy are non-negotiable. So are the rights of people with disabilities. Danica Kohn on Melbourne Fringe show 19 Weeks
Content warning: This may be difficult for people with Down […]

‘As good a production of this play as you could want to see’: Ben Brooker on the revival of Stephen Sewell’s Welcome the Bright World at the STCSA
As a rule, left-wing Australian playwrights don’t take up ideas b […]

‘One of the biggest problems we have is that artistic decision-making isn’t in the hands of children’

Art for young people is often marginalised, dismissed or even demonised in the wider culture. In this […]

“A tremendous achievement”: Keith Gow reviews The Harp in the South, Kate Mulvany’s epic adaptation of Ruth Park’s beloved trilogy of novels
ENY: It’s part of being Irish, Maggie. Lost love is a bleak real […]

Why do we pander to mediocrity and bad behaviour from male comics? Aboriginal comedy writer Angelina Hurley reflects on her disappointments
In 2018, the dominance of male mediocrity in stand-up comedy makes me […]

Kate Champion’s revival of That Eye, The Sky reveals a promising physical approach to theatrical writing, says Jane Howard. But she needs a stronger text
We don’t see much of the Flack family’s lives before cat […]

“The distortions of Forsythe’s choreography express something of contemporary fracture, the contemporary trauma of meaning’
We’re thrilled to bring you a very special Live Night, in tandem with our Stage Partner, […]

“The wedding dress was a character in its own right”
This month Sayraphim Lothian brought along her iPhone and asked some our of Witness Live Nighters to record their thoughts on Melancholia for posterity. With […]

“Sometimes there are things you can’t forget about, even when you try.”
September’s Live Night comes courtesy of our Stage Partners La Mama Theatre and Melbourne Fringe: Emily Sheehan’s acclaimed new play Hell’s […]

Bookings are now open for the August Live Night, Samara Hersch’s Dybbuks. This Chamber Made production looks fascinating: here Hersch and her collaborators explore the many ways that the dead inhabit female […]

“What will we do while we are still free to do it?” Cassie Tongue on Daniel Schlusser’s remarkable adaptation of Christa Wolf’s novel They Divided the Sky
When Christa Wolf wrote her novel Der geteilte Himmel […]

“Does the picture in your head ever go away?” Monique Grbec reviews Jada Albert’s Brothers Wreck, a devastating play about Indigenous suicide
Translucent concrete-blue plastic tarpaulins are stretched across the […]

We don’t want to be constantly shaking our metaphorical cans in your face, so after March we stepped back from our first month’s membership drive and concentrated on getting things done. But it’s time for another […]

‘You can write what you know without writing the literal occurrences of your own personal life.’ Playwright Jean Tong is over her work being read as autobiographical.

The irony of beginning an essay that […]

When representation isn’t enough: Tom Middleditch looks at the knotty question of diversity in creative teams
When the first edition of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was published in 2003, the […]

Phew, 2018 is whizzing by at light speed. It’s already time to talk about our July Live Night. With the generous support of our Stage Partner Malthouse Theatre, we’re seeing Melancholia at 6.30pm on July […]

Our June Live Night is from our Stage Partner Red Stitch Actors Theatre – the Melbourne premiere of Joanna Murray-Smith’s Fury, directed by Brett Cousins and Ella Caldwell.

Well, it’s actually more of a Live A […]