Backstage Blog

"Storytelling helps me to make sense of people I don’t understand. It’s an art form that invites empathy in real time from an audience,...

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We're turning this week's She Writes Collective spotlight on Flick in our Backstage Blog! The playwright of Midsumma smash hit, SLUTNIK™,...

MEDEA: Out of the Mouths of Babes has officially opened! Thank you to everyone who joined us in celebration and make the night LEGENDARY!...

"Imagine the resonant sound of a nine-player chamber orchestra on the Theatre Works stage. Just stunning." Director Katy Maudlin and...

"I decided to include real children in the development of MEDEA because their minds work in ways that are so different from ours as...

Theatre Works is now accepting project proposals for our 2023-24 mainstage seasons. Victorian and interstate indie artists, companies,...

"In the spirit of the play, we want to encourage audience members to form new friendships over ice-cream." Cassandra-Elli Yiannacou's...

Writer Wednesday continues this week on our Backstage Blog! Today we turn the spotlight on Georgia Symons, part of our 2022 She Writes...

📸: Daniel Rabin

Congratulations to all of the artists, creatives, techs, stage managers, front of house teams and all of the amazing people who endured...

Get the scoop on the 2022 She Writes Collective in our new fortnightly segment. This week we chat to Writer in Residence, Miranda...

"I've never found a play so formally or intellectually engrossing." Artistic director of Burning House, Robert Johnson, provides an...

Due to performers contracting COVID-19, we sadly must postpone this week's season of ALL THE RAGE by Daniel X Harris until next week. The...

Associate artists Fleur Murphy and Katie Rowe provide a summary of what the 2022 cohort have been busy with over the last couple of...

"Humour is central to this play, in both content and political ways. The many dozens of people I have spoken with who lived with BPD are...

In a new weekly segment, get to know our 2022 She Writes cohort as we get the scoop on what they're working on in the collective. Kicking...

It is with great sadness that we must announce the cancellation of the remainder of the Owl and the Albatross season due to the cast...