Interview
Award-winning British playwright Dennis Kelly may be best known to audiences for his adaptations of Matilda and Pinocchio, but Girls & Boys is a very different kind of family story. He talks to us about fatherhood, relationships and believing women.
Interview
A family holiday inspired playwright Joanna Murray-Smith to rediscover her Jewish heritage and write her latest play, Berlin.
Interview
Director Sam Strong talks about celebrating David Williamson’s five decades of work, and the exciting challenges of reviving one of his finest plays for 2020 audiences.
Interview
The playwright reflects on the highs and lows of his illustrious career.
Q&A
As Laura Wade’s award-winning play begins its Australian premiere season, we caught up with actor Nikki Shiels to find out what it has to say about indulging your dreams, living a fantasy, nostalgia and the modern condition.
Feature
Benjamin Law’s debut stage work looks beneath the layers of collected memory to discover the cause of one mother’s affliction.
Interview
Diana Lin returns in dramatic style after a 20-year hiatus from stage and screen.
Interview
Kerry Saxby, MTC’s Technical Manager of Lighting and Sound, tells us about the scope and complexity of working backstage at Southbank Theatre.
Interview
John Molloy walked in the MTC door for a job interview in 1974. Forty-six years later, the renowned tailor and costume maker is packing up his needle and thread for good.
Interview
Home, I’m Darling playwright Laura Wade delves back in time to discover some truths about the present.
Coffee in the Lounge
Actors Ainsley Melham and Adam-Jon Fiorentino require an immense amount of trust to play the roles of Molina and Valentin in Kander and Ebb’s darkest musical. It’s a trust that came easily to the former Aladdin colleagues.
Feature
Kiss of the Spider Woman is set in an unnamed South American jail cell, seemingly sometime in the 20th century, but the political and social reality that inspired its setting is stark: Argentina’s Dirty War.
Feature
Through the story of one pioneering woman in science, Photograph 51 tells a story familiar to all women in science.
Coffee in the Lounge
Actors Miranda Tapsell and Tuuli Narkle discuss Aboriginality, representation and sisterly bonds in Black is the New White.
Anna Ziegler discusses her play’s explosion on the West End, and how her admiration for scientist Rosalind Franklin inspired her to tell this largely untold story.