Cassie Tongue

In Pamela Rabe and Nick Schlieper’s steely co-production of Happy Days for Sydney Theatre Company, Winnie isn’t pretending – she’s surviving.

Bell Shakespeare’s Henry 5

Amy Herzog’s acclaimed drama 4000 Miles opens the season for the Sydney Theatre Company with powerful performances that recall the hopeful era of the play’s debut.

Sydney Festival again lacks a cohesive through line, with blink-and-you’ll-miss-it provocations amid longer-running crowd-pleasers.

It’s summer in Sydney – bright sun, sudden rain, a thick humid soup of air settled around our throats – and in the month of new beginnings, we try to open up the guts of the city and make art in it. It’s Sydney Festival season.

Both honouring and expanding its legacy, the 40th Liveworks brought the ghosts of past performance to startling life.

Carissa Licciardello’s adaptation of John Cassavetes’ Opening Night at Belvoir offers teasing glimpses of what might have been.

Material aspiration clashes with true romance in Glace Chase’s open-hearted play Triple X.

The Sydney Festival opens with work that pushes against structures of promise and oppression.