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Girl’s Own fun: Rep stages Daisy Pulls It Off

This month, Canberra Rep is staging Daisy Pulls It Off (1983), Denise Deegan’s spoof of English schoolgirl adventure stories.

Disney’s Frozen comes to The Q

For years, Charlotte Morphett was Chloe Stevenson’s drama teacher and mentor.

Mockingbird brings Broadway psychological thriller to Canberra

Mockingbird presents the Canberra premiere of Max Wolf Friedlich’s tense two-hander JOB (9 to 12 September).

First-time director Janie Lawson takes on love in all its messy forms

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is a musical revue about dating, marriage, parenthood and love (ACT Hub, 19 Aug-5 Sept).

Strangeness on a train: Mockingbird brings psychological thriller

Mockingbird Theatre Company is staging the Canberra premiere of The Girl on the Train (5 to 22 August), a play based on the bestselling novel.

Williams expert brings rare Glass Menagerie to Canberra Rep

An expert on the work of Tennessee Williams, Dr Geoffrey Borny, returns to Canberra Rep this month to direct the ACT’s first production in a decade of The Glass Menagerie, Williams’s breakthrough...

Canberra audiences invited to help shape new time-travel play

A trivia night will raise funds for Green Oak Theatre’s first-draft performance of Amelia Parker’s Assassination.

Bartender takes centre stage in Love & Forgetting

RARE BIRD ensemble’s one-man show Love & Forgetting: Tales from a Young Mixer returns to the Ambrosia Lounge this weekend.

Quiche and queer comedy at ACT Hub

Everyman Theatre’s Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche brings 1950s repression, nuclear panic and queer farce to ACT Hub from 17 July to 1 August.

Winsome Ogilvie lights the fuse in one-woman show Kerosene

Benjamin Nichol’s acclaimed monodrama Kerosene, a fierce story of loneliness, love and revenge, runs at Canberra Theatre Centre 16-18 July.

Bedroom and boardroom battles: Mockingbird’s C*CK and BULL

Mockingbird Too will present two companion plays by British playwright Mike Bartlett at Belconnen Arts Centre in July

New youth theatre company brings Caligula to Canberra

Performative Theatre Company launches this week with Camus’s dark study of power, absurdity, and the search for meaning.

World première play asks how good boys become dangerous men

The Q will produce the world-first performance of American dramatist Patrick Vermillion's play The Good Boy Game, running 18–20 June.

Tempo Theatre Dials M for Murder

Tempo Theatre stages Frederick Knott’s classic thriller Dial M for Murder, the play behind Alfred Hitchcock’s film.

Lose to Win: A South Sudanese refugee’s story

South Sudanese actor-writer and former refugee Mandela Mathia will perform his one-man show Lose to Win in Queanbeyan on Saturday.

Liaisons dangereuses: Swords, sex, and scandal at Canberra Rep

Les Liaisons dangereuses, by Christopher Hampton, directed by Lainie Hart, Canberra Rep, 23 April to 9 May.

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