We are so excited to announce the Melbourne stop in our Fangirls tour, it is LA-HITERALLY giving us hand sweat! Join our cast as they get caught up with ALL THE FEELS at Arts Centre Melbourne from 28th April to 9th May 2021. We are ONE HUNJI PERCENT sure you are in for a good […]

It’s the final week of Fangirls before it leaves for the national tour! Last seats for the production are selling fast, you’ll be ACTUALLY DEAD if you miss this show. Find out where this show is heading next.  

The deck is stacked with IRL popstar Aydan as Harry, we stan both Chika Ikogwe as Jules, and Belvoir newcomer Karis Oka as the formidable Edna. We are one hunji per cent behind James Majoos reprising their role as fan fav Saltypringl, and Ayesha Madon as sweet Lily. We can’t even with Shubshri Kandiah as […]

We’re currently running a competition on our Facebook page to win TWO tickets to the FANGIRLS preview performance on Monday 1st February. To enter the draw, show us a photo from your first concert/event on our pinned post! Entries close Friday 22nd January. Winner announced Monday 25th January.

If you were booked in to one of the cancelled performances of My Brilliant Career (19 & 20 Dec 2020) your tickets have been refunded to your account, and we are all set to book you in to a new date. Please email our Box Office and let us know when you would like to attend […]

We are heeding the advice of the NSW Government which recommends avoiding any non-essential travel for the next three days, and have cancelled performances of My Brilliant Career and 44 Sex Acts on 19 & 20 December. All ticket holders have been notified via email, if you did not receive an email, please get in […]

If you are currently booked to see My Brilliant Career and the NSW Government has advised your suburb to isolate and not travel for three days, we will exchange your tickets for a credit on your account. We will be in touch with information on how to use this credit for a later performance of […]

Belvoir has received some very welcome news, we’ve been granted an exemption from the NSW Government for My Brilliant Career performances, which means we can start moving to 75% capacity in the Upstairs theatre for most shows. We’re keeping Thursday and Saturday matinee audience at 50%, get in touch with our friendly Box Office staff […]

Belvoir is pleased to announce the brilliant emerging writer and playwright Jorjia Gillis as the 2020 Balnaves Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellow. Jorjia is a proud Saltwater woman of the Budawang tribe of the Yuin nation. The Fellowship is an evolution of the Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright Award, which has long been recognised as one of […]

On September 10, under the NSW Government’s COVID-Safe Guidelines, Anita Hegh and Ella Prince will step in front of an audience at Belvoir St to perform A Room of One’s Own. It will be our first public performance in six months. And we can’t wait. Theatre will be a little bit different in the age […]

Expressions of interest are now open for the 2020 Balnaves Fellowship. If you are an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander playwright, writer/director or director who wants to create a new play with Belvoir and take part in Belvoir’s artistic decision making, or know someone who may be interested head to our official Fellowships and Residencies […]

This time a year ago as we were putting our 2020 season together we decided we would end the year with a play about a society too addicted to comfort to notice the crisis looming on the horizon. Instead the crisis came faster than the play. Life has overtaken art, and so we have made […]

Although we are starting to glimpse a light at the end of this long, dark COVID-19 filled tunnel, we have made the difficult decision to postpone Miss Peony until our 2021 season. But we can assure you it will be worth the wait! Australia has been very lucky, we all followed the rules and have managed […]

On Sunday evening 26 April, playwright S. Shakthidharan and our Artistic Director Eamon Flack were jointly awarded the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the 2020 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards for their work on Counting & Cracking. Counting & Cracking was a watershed moment for Belvoir and Co-Curious, written and produced over many years and with extensive […]

We’re a few weeks into this new world of Zoom and empty streets. It’s not becoming less bizarre. When the sun’s out and you’re by the window it can almost feel normal for a moment. But it remains unnatural. It is certainly unnatural for us at Belvoir. What is a theatre without audiences? The question […]

Last night the 37th annual Green Room Awards were announced online from Melbourne and we’re delighted to say our 2019 production of Barbara and the Camp Dogs picked up four awards in the ceremony: • Best Performance – Ursula Yovich – Barbara and the Camp Dogs (Belvoir) • Best Music Composition and Sound Design – Adm […]

 These are extraordinary times; COVID 19 has brought about necessary bans on public gatherings resulting in thousands of cancelled performances for people across the country – and along with that, the loss of thousands of jobs.  It is a difficult time to find good news, however we want to congratulate the performing arts organisations that […]

As life and everything continues to change in response to Covid-19, we have made the difficult decision to postpone our next three shows. We had already begun rehearsals for A Room of One’s Own, so we will keep it in readiness for when the right time comes later this year. However Escaped Alone and The […]

In 2020 Belvoir will premiere the new comedy Miss Peony by Michelle Law, the writer of the nationwide smash hit Single Asian Female. Members of the community are now invited to apply for auditions for this production.

Last week Counting & Cracking received the Victorian Prize for Literature and Prize for Drama in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. It’s a wonderful recognition of this epic work by by S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack, one that was five years in the making. It is only the second time a play has won both the drama award […]

Last night at the Sydney Theatre Awards for 2019 Belvoir took home the win in five categories: • Best Mainstage Production – Counting & Cracking • Best New Australian Work – S. Shakthidharan – Counting & Cracking • Best Original Score – Stefan Gregory – Counting & Cracking • Best Production of a Mainstage Musical […]

After a long selection processes full of excellent applicants across the board, we are delighted to announce both our new Andrew Cameron Fellow and the participants of our inaugural Writers’ Lab supported by the Oranges & Sardines Foundation, for early career playwrights in 2020. Andrew Cameron Fellow The Andrew Cameron Fellowship, supported by and in honour […]

Due to overwhelming demand the Packer & Sons season has been extended. The production will now run until 5 January 2020. Critics and audiences alike have been raving about Packer & Sons and its blistering take on one of the most significant and influential families in modern Australian history. The full list of additional performances can be found […]

The shortlist for the UK’s prestigious biennial Bruntwood Prize for playwrighting has been announced and we are absolutely delighted to see our 2017 Philip Parsons Fellow Emme Hoy included as a shortlisted playwright in the International category with her play Pavlov’s Dogs. The prize, which has existed since 2005 has launched the careers of a […]

We spoke to Simon Beggs, a professional woodturner who crafted many of the planets that make up the Ptolemaic Solar System suspended above the Life of Galileo stage. Read on to hear Simon speak about his passion for the craft as well as some of the peculiarities of the process.

Belvoir is pleased to announce the exceptional playwright and Trawlwoolway, Pakana/Palawa man from Lutrawita/Tasmania, Nathan Maynard as the 2019 Balnaves Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellow. The Fellowship is an evolution of the Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright Award, which has long been recognised as one of the most prestigious playwriting awards in Australia. A $25,000 […]

2019 has been one of our most ambitious years to date and yesterday that ambition was recognised with Belvoir scoring a record thirteen gongs at the Helpmann Awards, including Best New Australian Work and Best Production of a Play for our biggest show ever, Counting and Cracking, as well as Best Musical for Belvoir favourite […]

We spoke to Zoë Atkinson, Set and Costume Designer of Life of Galileo about bringing Brecht's classic play to life alongside Director Eamon Flack and Adaptor Tom Wright.

Prolific set designer and veteran of Belvoir Stephen Curtis discusses the rose garden central to Things I Know To Be True, and the process of building a functional prototype.