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My Brilliant Career: musical based on Miles Franklin’s novel takes us on a sassy, spirited journey of self-discovery

Melbourne Theatre Company’s My Brilliant Career is a musical re-imagining of Miles Franklin’s classic 1901 novel of the same name. It follows a young woman, Sybylla Melvyn, as she chafes against her rural constraints to seek creative freedom.

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Cost of Living review – fertile power dynamics diluted by mawkish writing

Melbourne Theatre Company, The SumnerMartyna Majok’s 2018 drama wants to interrogate money, disability and care work – but despite strong performances, the play never ignites its own fuses

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Rebecca to feature in Melbourne Theatre Company line-up

An adaptation of Rebecca will feature in the Melbourne Theatre Company's 2025 program, of which eight productions are premieres of Australian works.

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Vale Ray Lawler: the playwright who changed the sound of Australian theatre

Ray Lawler, who died this week at 103, was one of the artists responsible for establishing the first non-commercial repertory theatre in Australia – the Union Repertory Theatre Company, now Melbourne Theatre Company – and the writer of its best-known play, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.

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Ready, willing and disabled: the Australian actors campaigning for more roles – and better training

As disabled actors fight for authentic casting, there are still complex impediments to access – and, says Prisoner alumna Kate Hood, ‘we see cripping up all the time’

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New play kicks goals with tale of AFL and Australia

The Melbourne Theatre Company's world premiere production of 37, named for Adam Goodes' jersey number, tells the story of a struggling local football team.

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Meet Me at Dawn review – a deeply moving meditation on grief

Fairfax Studio, Melbourne Theatre CompanyJing-Xuan Chan and Sheridan Harbridge are excellent as a couple mysteriously marooned on a beach – but the pace of this story is jarring

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Australia on stage: the best theatre, musicals, dance and opera of 2023

From ballet to Afrofuturism to a world-class immersive spectacle, Guardian Australia critics pick out the best live stage experiences of the year

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My Sister Jill review – Patricia Cornelius’s family drama cries out for social realism

The playwright’s stage adaptation of her semi-autobiographical novel explores Australia’s changing attitude to war, but it never rises above the schematic

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My Brilliant Career to be adapted into a pop-rock musical as part of Melbourne Theatre Company’s 2024 lineup

‘Joyful’ new show to cap off MTC season also featuring Pulitzer-winning plays Topdog/Underdog and English, and a ‘fresh take’ on A Streetcar Named Desire

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New Aussie musical Bloom misses an opportunity to interrogate the gaps in aged care – and in our social fabric

Bloom, the new Australian musical produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company, is proudly billed by the company as born and bred right here in Melbourne/Naarm.

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Bloom review – Tom Gleisner’s aged care musical is cheerily good-hearted

Katie Weston’s songs are effective enough and Gleisner’s lyrics are serviceable, but Bloom comes to life when the excellent cast get to perform all together

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Rising has yet to establish its voice – but this year's festival gave us significant and thrilling work by First Nations artists

Rising has just completed its second run across Melbourne. The newest addition to the city’s festival scene, Rising replaced the much-loved White Night festival and the much-celebrated Melbourne International Arts Festival.

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Jacky review – incredibly uncomfortable, thoughtful theatre

Fairfax Studio, Melbourne Theatre CompanyBy Arrernte playwright Declan Furber Gillick, Jacky follows two Indigenous brothers who clash over the expectations of white people around them

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Happy Days review – Judith Lucy is wonderfully disturbing in Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece

Sumner Theatre, Melbourne Theatre CompanyThe former stand-up is a natural fit for the role of Winnie, a tragic woman attempting to stave off hopelessness in the face of great horror

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Judith Lucy draws upon parents' dysfunctional relationship to bring to life Samuel Beckett's Happy Days at Melbourne Theatre Company

Having quit stand-up last year, the comedian is making her theatre debut — playing a character she understands on a 'gut level', because she reminds her of her mother.

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