Acting
![Erik Thomson as Scrooge. He is wearing a pink coat and is standing in a door frame. The ensemble are in black behind him.](jpg/2024-a-christmas-carol_erik-thomson-ensemble_c-eugenehyland1f472.jpg)
Musical review: A Christmas Carol, Comedy Theatre
Back again for its third iteration, this version comes with a new Scrooge and is as engaging as the previous…
![A production of 'Edging.' Sammaneh Pourshafighi in acqua blue tracksuit is in forefront. Eden Falk is in the background. There is an image of the contents of someone's luggage on the screen behind them and part of an airport security equipment with a piece of luggage on it.](jpg/image_3_arts-house_edging-%e2%80%93-aphids_credit-%e2%80%93-gregory-lorenzutti-e1733183198169f472.jpg)
Performance review: Edging, Arts House
A show highlighting the perverse reality of Australiaās border security processes.
![Gluck's Orpheus & Eurydice will be staged in Melbourne in 2025. Pictured are the Opera Australia Chorus and Circa in Opera Australia's 2024 production of Orpheus & Eurydice.](jpg/53990931741_bd4c7b66c9_kf472.jpg)
ArtsHubās 2025 season guide to the performing arts
Our rolling guide to the season announcements you may have missed.
![A wedding scene, with rows of chairs and heavy linenware.](jpg/image-1_arts-house_zaffe-%e2%80%93-stephanie-ghajar-collaborators_credit-%e2%80%93-gregory-lorenzutti1f472.jpg)
Performance review: ZaffƩ, Arts House
A joyous wedding party in the face of real life.
![Four performers are barely visible as they overlaid by a scramble of letters.](jpg/a-z-first-shots-311f472.jpg)
Theatre review: The Comprehensive A-Z of Missing Persons Australia, The Liberty Theatre
A multimedia exploration into the plight of the missing.
![An Aboriginal woman in a printed blouse is laughing.](jpg/cchrissy-maguire-2024-855711-smaller1f472.jpg)
Theatre review: Watersong, Clubhouse Theatre, Townsville
A stunning production by Townsville-based First Nations actors and playwright mines generational family drama.
![Two figures, Ahunim Abebe, Mark Saturno are crouched on the left hand bottom corner of the stage. In the background are 3 silhouette figures with pale light behind them.](jpg/jack_maggs_production_stills_by_matt_byrne-550.-ahunim-abebe-mark-saturno-11f472.jpg)
Theatre review: Jack Maggs, Adelaide Festival Centre
Based on the novel by Peter Carey, this production is a fine new work in the Australian theatrical canon.
![A bar scene in the production of 'Sweat'.](jpg/sweat_production_stc_imagecredit_prudenceupton_5731f472.jpg)
Theatre review: Sweat, Wharf 1 Theatre
A play about hardscrabble small-town Americans by a Pulitzer-winning playwright is grimly prescient.
![Two men. One is standing (Drew Forsythe), one is seated at a piano (Phil Scott) in a production of 'The End of the Wharf as we know it.'](jpg/drew-forsythe-as-murdoch-as-mr-burns-with-phil-scott-as-smithers-in-background-the-end-of-the-wharf-as-we-know-it-c-vishal-pa1f472.jpg)
Performance review: The Wharf Revue: The End of the Wharf As We Know It, Seymour CentreĀ
After 25 years, The Wharf Revue ā famous for lampooning Australian politicians ā is presenting its final show.
![A woman in black, with sunglasses, Pamela Rabe, is standing in a doorframe of a production of 'August. Osage County.'](jpg/belvoir_augustosagecounty_production_photobrettboardman_005860_pamela-rabe1f472.jpg)
Theatre review: August: Osage County, Belvoir Street Theatre
Belvoir Street tackles one of the centuryās great American plays in its final offering for 2024.