Sydney Theatre Company is going to regional NSW and ACT schools to teach kids about road safety — and theatre. Its new production is pitched in just the right way.

An illicit Greek tragedy warms cold hearts in Melbourne with Catherine McClements delivering a tour-de-force performance of pathos, nuance and self-reflective humour.

Malthouse Theatre’s Dance Of Death is hard to watch sometimes. But it has plenty to say — profanely — about society, love and the sanctity of marriage.

There’s an awkward, eloquent silence to Tom Holloway’s Forget Me Not. It’s one of the finest Belvoir St Theatre productions in quite some time.

The Full Circle troupe brings the Royal Shakespeare Company’s A Tender Thing to Brisbane. It’s a deeply moving, emotionally and linguistically exhilarating ride.

An all-male production of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange offers a terrifying performance from Martin McCreadie. But its dance beat is too West Side Story for the brutality of the story.

Bell Shakespeare’s Henry 4 might be the best place to start for Shakespeare novices. And one of the best performances given by the company’s patriarch.

He’s 400kg and can’t leave the couch — it’s the drama around him that makes Melissa Bubnic’s Beached such a moving and timely journey.

The prolific Joanna Murray-Smith does meet-the-mother-in-law farce with her new play True Minds. Can she wring new blood out of a long-sapped comedy stone?

Australia’s most prolific playwright serves up another relationship drama that still has plenty of things to say — by silver-tongued characters.