Saturday, 14 March 2026

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Canberra Philharmonic Society, ACT Hub, 12-28 Mar

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  A musical about children at a spelling bee may sound like a particuarly gruelling evening of precociousness, but filtered through the brai...
Wednesday, 11 March 2026

My Brilliant Career, Melbourne Theatre Company, Canberra Theatre Centre, Canberra Theatre, 7-15 Mar (and subseqently Sydney and Wollongong)

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  Five years after  Belvoir's somewhat similar non-musical adaptation  (down to sharing a lot of the same doubling and also having a pia...
Saturday, 7 March 2026

Head over Heels, Well Done Creative, Hayes Theatre, 20 Feb-22 Mar

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 A pop musical using the songs of the Go-gos with a plot drawn from the 16th Century pastoral romance "Arcadia" by Sir Phillip Sid...

The Elecution of Benjamin Franklin, Griffin Theatre Company, Belvoir Downstairs, 21 Feb-29 Mar

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  Returning to the space where it all began 50 years ago, this revival of Steven J. Spears' worldwide hit is a compelling revisit of an ...
Friday, 6 March 2026

The Normal Heart, Sydney Theatre Company, Opera House Drama Theatre, 9 Feb- 14 Mar

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 Photo - Neil Bennett Larry Kramer's 1985 play is an urgent, visceral piece of writing - an expression of rage over the inaction of vari...

A Mirror, Belvoir St Theatre, Upstairs Theatre, 21 Feb-22 Mar

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  Plays with a twist are the hardest to review - particularly this one, where when we arrive we're expecting to see a play - but the sta...
Saturday, 28 February 2026

Bedroom Farce, Canberra Rep, 19 Feb-7 Mar

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  Alan Ayckbourn's play has a slightly misleading title - while it's set in three bedrooms it's not really a farce (as that genr...