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Merrigong Theatre Company has announced their 2026 season, revealing the 10 mainstage productions coming to Wollongong over the course of next year, as well as 4 MerrigongX presentations and a bustling Kids & Families program. The Tert was lucky enough to be invited to the season launch and hear about
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UOW’s student body have made their position clear on the proposed abolition of Safe and Respectful Communities (SARC), in a rally attended by students, staff, community members, and even representatives from other universities’ Women’s Collectives. Students were first made aware of changes to UOW’s safety, support, and
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How can you help someone who doesn’t want to be helped? That’s one of the questions posed by new play COOKED, which premiered at this year’s Sydney Fringe Festival. The play’s masterminds are Angel Duggan and Lana Page, two current theatre students right here at UOW
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What do you get when you cross time travel, gender-bending, and onstage rollerskating? Well, Orlando, of course. The latest offering to grace Belvoir St Theatre’s iconic corner stage pulls out all the stops to bring Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel to life, with a modern makeover. Featuring an all-star
COOKED is a brand new play about mental health, crumbling relationships, and what it means to be a young woman in modern society. Its non-linear narrative follows main character Logan as she navigates her relationships with her Mum and her best friend Jean. COOKED invites us to see ourselves in
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Do you know what it took to get your favourite musical onto the mainstage? From a twinkle in its creator’s eye, chances are it went through years or even decades of writing, re-writing, editing, workshops, showings, developments, readings, and more, all before you even heard of it. But what
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CATS is a musical that needs no introduction. Considered the first megamusical, it paved the way for shows from Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera to Hamilton and Wicked, on top of being a massive commercial success in its own right. It’s been produced all over the
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I know what you’re thinking: another bloody climate play. Hard pass. But if there’s just one ‘climate play’ you should take a chance on, it’s Scenes from the Climate Era. Over the course of 65 short scenes, writer David Finnigan dissects the past, present, and future of
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The staging and costuming of Lost Words is a true delight. It’s as if Esme and her friends have sprung directly from the page into the real world. Each setting is richly crafted, making use of the Scriptorium’s pigeonholes as shelves, windows, doors, letter boxes, and more.
Working in the care and support industry, it doesn’t take long before you begrudgingly accept that nothing changes. The budget is nonexistent, the demands are endless, and the pay is laughable. Meanwhile, your boss (who never quite grew out of being the mean girl in high school) takes home
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In 2006, a writer by the name of Anaïs Mitchell wrote a song called ‘Why We Build The Wall,’ created for the first-ever version of her musical Hadestown. It’s sung by Hades, the King of the Underworld, contextualised in Hadestown as some kind of capitalist hellscape populated by nameless,
Whilst Sydney’s Hayes Theatre Co always strives to push the limits of musical theatre, The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty might be their most ambitious production yet. Bringing their magic to the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, they deliver a fun-filled night of silliness and laughter, audience