Heartbreak High star and proud Kamilaroi man Thomas Weatherall’s monologue Blue is one of six productions announced in Black Swan State Theatre Company’s tantalising 2025 season, programmed by Kate Champion.
Tanya MacNaughton
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company’s world premiere of Bruce Denny’s play Operation Boomerang is not just an uplifting family yarn about living on your own terms, but dying on your own terms too.
Wrangling showgirls, glitter and a tonne of paperwork is all part of the job description for Perth International Burlesque Festival director Jessica Gough.
Fringe World comedy and cabaret favourite Reuben Kaye is returning to Perth, the bold and brash queer performer’s magnetic stage presence landing him the royal role of King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar.
Green make-up, a fat suit and facial prosthetics all go into the process of turning performer Falstaff Dowling-Mitchell into the title character of Shrek The Musical, and he would not have it any other way.
Adelaide-based performer Stephen Noonan relishes creating and performing children’s theatre for an incredibly specific age group, doing just that with The Boy and The Ball at AWESOME Festival 2024.
The first reading of Noongar opera Wundig Wer Wilura, written and composed by Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse, happened in the kitchen of an Airbnb in York, and will return to open York Festival 2024.
Big on heart, hair and humour, Hairspray The Musical is musical theatre at its feel-good best, packed with a positive message, catchy tunes and oodles of laughs.
DIY guru Rob Palmer is in WA for a very different role — playing Tracy Turnblad’s mother, Edna Turnblad, in the HAMA Productions season of Hairspray The Musical at Crown Theatre Perth.
While Paige Fallu may have her mum to thank for her love of musical theatre, neither envisioned it would one day lead to Fallu making her lead debut in the musical Hairspray with DIY guru Rob Palmer.
WA Ballet’s season of Romeo & Juliet is a bold and spellbindingly contemporary re-telling of Shakespeare’s great tragic love story.
Seeing Black Swan State Theatre Company’s latest season of The Children a day after Australia records its hottest ever winter temperature is cold comfort in the face of this devastatingly compelling drama.
A tiny world bursting with critters is set to take centre stage in Broome as Act Belong Commit Sandfly Circus presents their latest show, Small But Spectacular.
Katya Minns
WA Ballet will perform the Australian premiere of choreographer Andrea Schermoly’s Romeo And Juliet, presenting Shakespeare’s famous love story from a female perspective.
Ian McKellen admits he is still in "agonising pain" after falling from the stage during a play in June.
Staff Writers
While Mel Cantwell may have been invited by Black Swan to direct The Children, it is absolutely a play she would have chosen for herself, citing it as the perfect marriage of director and material.
Arthur Miller’s 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Death Of A Salesman has gripped audiences for generations and continues to do so with Anthony LaPaglia at the helm of this Australian production.
Breaksea contemporary music theatre production Caretaker features a series of parallel, true, Great Southern stories for an uplifting performance full of hope.
Logie and Helpmann award-winning actor Alison Whyte returns to Perth in Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman, starring opposite Anthony LaPaglia in the critically acclaimed play.
Black Swan State Theatre Company and WA Opera claim top honours in the Performing Arts WA Awards at Heath Ledger Theatre, with a strong showing by independents and regions.
David Cusworth
A Resting Mess is part of this year’s 10 Nights In Port festival program, the dance work inspired by creator Daisy Sanders’ experience with chronic fatigue.
Comedian Mel Buttle’s recent career success all comes down to one contributing factor — pretending to be a baby boomer mum on the internet.
Eloise Connell was a physiotherapist in Perth hospitals until she was called back to a different life, one she thought she’d left behind: as a dancer at Paris’ Moulin Rouge, on the eve of the Olympics.
Megan French
Anthony LaPaglia is bringing the American dream to Perth, starring in one of the best-known plays of the 20th century, Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman.
