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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?

The very best of Britain comes to Australia in the Olivier-winning, Tonys-conquering National Theatre mega-hit. Its Sydney showing proves the universal appeal of a side-splitting adaptation.

Sharr White’s direct-from-Broadway play to open the Melbourne Theatre Company season is a moving portrait of mental illness that cheats its audience by the end.

Music is one of Melbourne Theatre Company’s more tuneful endeavours this year. Playwright Barry Oakley is welcomed back to the stage with warm applause.

Very serious issues are played in a very silly way in this Melbourne Theatre Company adaptation of Elling. The humour almost robs the drama at its heart.

Caryl Churchill’s iconic 1982 play about women and power is an unconventional mash-up of magical realism and kitchen-sink drama. It still works.

Some might argue that child pornography is not a suitable topic for a comedy. That argument is by the by, as Robert Reid’s play On the Production of Monsters uses the accidental forwarding of an image of a naked girl only as an inciting incident that allows the play to riff on a whole litany [...]

Despite the flurry of publicity around the opening, Melbourne Theatre Company’s The Heretic is not actually about climate change. The debate just provides the set-up for a peculiarly domestic comedy. The first act of British writer Richard Bean’s play is a tough slog for the audience. Scientist Dr Diane Cassell (Noni Hazlehurst) has found some [...]

by Matthew Raggatt Coming immediately after the more sombre remembrance of Anzac Day, Jonathan Biggins’ Australia Day – a Melbourne Theatre Company/Sydney Theatre Company co-production — challenges audiences to consider what in fact, beyond our soldiers, it is that brings us all together. We are thrown into the Coriole Shire’s committee meeting for the country town’s upcoming January [...]