Yen-Rong Wong

Queensland Theatre’s First Casualty takes an unvarnished look at the costs of the war in Afghanistan.

Queensland Theatre’s adaptation of the memoir Boy, Lost is a powerful examination of the price of removing children from their families.

Tiddas combines a portrayal of the warmth and strength of sisterhood with a rebuke to the publishing industry for being slow to appreciate Indigenous talent.

This year’s Brisbane Festival focuses on work that connects people across cultures and generations.

Hollywood has a storied history of tapping white actors to play Asian roles, traditionally in yellowface and now by simply “reimagining” them as white. It hides behind the capitalist claim of “marketability” – the notion that people don’t …

The Dead Puppet Society’s The Wider Earth is a captivating enactment of Charles Darwin’s discovery of evolution.

Sometimes, as Steve Pirie’s play Return to the Dirt demonstrates, the best way to talk about death is through humour.

The stage adaptation of Boy Swallows Universe is a celebration of Brisbane – the good, the bad and the ugly.

Suzie Miller’s powerful one-woman play Prima Facie explores how sexual assault victims are let down by the legal system.

Anchuli Felicia King’s play White Pearl explores the complex subtexts of the Asian obsession with skin-whitening cosmetics.

Queensland Theatre’s staging of William Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew nods to contemporary gender politics, but fails to address it in a meaningful way.

Queensland Theatre’s production of  Thornton Wilder’s classic play Our Town has fresh poignancy in a time of pandemic.

Behind the dad jokes, Queensland Theatre’s The Holidays is an ambitious play about family connection through dark times.