Disrupting Stages

20/06/2026

Nearly twenty years on, "Toy Symphony" remains one of Michael Gow's most personal and unsettling works — and a triumphant beginning for the Pavilion's new era of locally produced theatre.

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Sutherland Pavilion

Toy SymphonyPavilion Performing Arts Centre, Sutherland What a fitting way to launch an in-house production program than with one of the Shire's own. Directed by playwright Michael Gow, Toy Symphony returns home in a production that celebrates both the play's enduring strengths and the growing ambit...

15/06/2026

These stories emerge from the spaces between things, arriving softly and finding their way into the audience almost by stealth.

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Qtopia Sydney
Perhaps, theatre.

The Worst of Us.perhaps, theatre. The Substation, QTOPIA SydneyWhat is the worst thing you've ever done?A child says something he cannot unsay. A mother clings to a truth that may not be true. A man stands in a garden holding a hoe, facing the hardest decision of his life.These are the questions and...

11/06/2026

The evening succeeds not because every song lands, but because Rodger herself does.

https://www.disruptingstages.com/post/phoebs-you-re-a-lesbian-the-loading-dock

Qtopia Sydney

28/05/2026

Criptonite: Intergalactic Redux - This ensemble has committed fully to the dream, and they take you with them.

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The Red Rattler Theatre

Criptonite: Intergalactic ReduxRed Rattler TheatreThere is a moment, somewhere between the silver-jump suited stagehands gliding across the stage and a pole artist suspended mid-air under a crescent moon, when you stop watching a show and start inhabiting a world. That is what Criptonite does. It bu...

26/05/2026

SONDER - The production surrounding the material is extraordinary. The material itself is still finding its sharpest edges.
https://www.disruptingstages.com/post/sonder-old-Old Fitz Theatre

Old Fitz Theatre
berlage&co

SONDEROld Fitz Theatre |Berlage & CoLet's start where we have to: the set. Slowly moving shards of mirror hang and descend around a lone figure on a reflective circular black floor, catching light, multiplying it, throwing it back in fragments. As a visual language for a show about shattered identit...

16/05/2026

ATYP's "Saplings" - This is not youth theatre in the sense of apprentice work or earnest effort. It is simply excellent theatre — made with the kind of creative integrity and political clarity that most mainstage companies would be proud to claim.

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Sydney Opera House
Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp)

"Would you risk breaking bail for a packet of Mi Goreng?" The answer, it turns out, is yes. Obviously yes. And the fact that you understand exactly why, without hesitation, without judgement, tells you everything about what Saplings achieves in its seventy or so minutes on stage. This is theatre mad...

13/05/2026

Estelle Davis and Alex Kirwan are remarkable — directors should be taking note. The work is so individual and detailed it can break your heart in Gary Owen's "Romeo & Julie" at KXT bAKEHOUSE

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Mad March Hare Theatre Company

Romeo & JulieKXTGary Owen’s Romeo & Julie arrives at KXT on Broadway with all the qualities that have made Owen one of the great contemporary playwrights. His writing is always underpinned by deep compassion; the characters are richly detailed, the dialogue eminently actable, and the storytelling ...

11/05/2026

"Murder Horse "is at its most alive when it's darkest. Ruby Teys is frankly incredible, and the creative gold in this town is undeniable. The horse has bolted. Now somebody needs to ride it.

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Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre - BMEC

Murder Horse – The Musical Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre Something is waiting in the wings at BMEC. It has four legs, a body count, and no intention of losing.Sweeney Todd meets Succession. That's the pitch. The Succession reference holds up beautifully: a dying patriarch plays his childr...

22/04/2026

An Iliad should feel barely containable - like history erupting through the performer. Here, it feels carefully held.

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Sydney Theatre Company

An IlliadWharf 1At Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf 1, David Wenham takes on An Iliad - Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s one-actor adaptation of The Iliad, directed by Damien Ryan.The work itself has a formidable lineage. Originally created at Seattle Repertory Theatre, An Iliad distils Homer’...

09/04/2026

A theatre full of children and adults leaning forward in shared wonder feels quietly radical

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SSydney Opera House

Erth’s Dinosaurs – From Hatchlings to GiantsSydney Opera HouseThere’s something quietly radical about sitting in a theatre full of children and adults, all leaning forward in shared wonder. In an age of relentless screens and speed, Erth’s Dinosaurs - From Hatchlings to Giants offers a diffe...