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Melbourne, Australia Critics Wanted

BWW is always seeking talented theater enthusiasts to head up feature coverage our over 130 regional areas. As a Contributing Editor, you will have the opportunity to review the shows of your choice, conduct interviews with local and touring talent, design features of your own choosing for publishing, and work/network with your local theater press reps to bring exposure to the theatrical offerings in your area.

All applicants should have excellent writing skills and an interest for giving local theaters and productions some prominence on BroadwayWorld.com.

Your compensation as a featured writer with us not only includes exclusive press seats to all of the shows you cover (as is standard in your area and arranged between you and the theater) but also the opportunity to be published under your own byline and publishing profile on both the local and main pages of the site for maximum exposure to our 5M+ monthly visitors.

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Past Shows

Coranderrk

Dec 7 – Jan 5, 2014

Coranderrk is about what might have been. In the neglected storehouse of Australian history, this is one of the definitive stories. At a Victorian Parliamentary...

The Cake Man

Nov 14 – Dec 8, 2013

Back in the early 1970s a group of pioneering Indigenous theatremakers occupied a dilapidated terrace in Redfern and started the National Black Theatre. The first...

Hamlet

Oct 12 – Dec 1, 2013

Every generation feels the irresistible compulsion to attempt to stage this, the greatest play by the greatest playwright. Then, when we try, we’re haunted by...

Small and Tired

Sep 26 – Oct 20, 2013

Orestes has come back to bury his father. He has been away a long time. His mother is hardened, his sister is strangely ill. He...

Miss Julie

Aug 24 – Oct 6, 2013

We love watching plays about couples tearing each other to pieces: George and Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Elyot and Amanda in Private...

Persona

Jul 24 – Aug 18, 2013

Adena Jacobs’ staging of Ingmar Bergman’s film packed out houses at Melbourne’s Theatre Works in 2012. It was one of the finest pieces of theatre...

Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika

May 29 – Jul 14, 2013

Various forces have gathered in New York: the ex-boyfriend and his Mormon squeeze, the squeeze’s pill-popping wife and Mormon mother, a rabid Republican lawyer, a...

Forget Me Not

Apr 20 – May 19, 2013

Gerry is almost 60, and he is going to meet his mother for the first time since he was three. His daughter Sally has had...

Stories I Want to Tell You in Person

Mar 21 – Apr 14, 2013

On the one hand, Lally Katz has been writing the funniest and most original plays in the country for the last decade – Neighbourhood Watch,...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Feb 16 – Apr 7, 2013

Tennessee Williams is one of the giants of twentieth-century drama and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is his Lear. One era is ending, how...

This Heaven

Feb 7 – Mar 3, 2013

Sometimes you need to push. Sissy Gordon’s father died in custody at Mount Druitt Police Station. The cops got a fine, Sissy’s family got $9,000...

Peter Pan

Jan 5 – Feb 10, 2013

Everybody knows Peter Pan. He’s the boy who hasn’t grown up in 113 years. But one night not long ago we sat down and read...

Beautiful One Day

Beautiful One Day

Nov 17 – Dec 23, 2012

Palm Island. An Aboriginal man is arrested, allegedly for insulting a police officer. Within 90 minutes, he lies dead on the watchhouse floor, his liver...

Don't Take Your Love to Town

Don't Take Your Love to Town

Nov 29 – Dec 23, 2012

"You can think of me as Ruby Wagtail Big Noise Anderson Rangi Ando Heifer Andy Langford.Ruby Langford Ginibi’s Don’t Take Your Love to Town is...

Medea

Medea

Oct 11 – Nov 25, 2012

Two young children on a stage play games to distract themselves. Off-stage and unheard their parents are having a very famous showdown. At some inevitable...

Private Lives

Private Lives

Sep 29 – Nov 11, 2012

AMANDA: Darling, I believe you’re talking nonsense. ELYOT: So is everyone else in the long run. Let’s be superficial and pity the poor Philosophers. Let’s...

Conversation Piece

Conversation Piece

Aug 25 – Sep 23, 2012

In every show we strive to be breathtakingly original. Choreographer Lucy Guerin’s new show for Belvoir takes this to an extreme by striving to be...

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman

Jun 23 – Aug 12, 2012

Will you take that phoney dream and burn it before something happens?Willy Loman is feeling his age. He and his wife Linda are struggling to...

Strange Interlude

Strange Interlude

May 5 – Jun 17, 2012

A family under threat – from what, we don’t know – hires a young security guard, Chris. He spends long hours, day and night, by...

Food

Food

Apr 26 – May 20, 2012

A country highway. A greasy takeaway joint. Two sisters. One of them left, one stayed behind. One chose chaos, the other control. One chose sex,...

Every Breath

Every Breath

Mar 24 – Apr 29, 2012

No-one would doubt that Benedict Andrews has a vivid imagination. As a director he has taken some of our most revered classics and turned them...

Babyteeth

Babyteeth

Feb 11 – Mar 18, 2012

Time for a comedy – a mad, gorgeous, bittersweet comedy about how good it is not to be dead yet.A group of more or less...

Thyestes

Thyestes

Jan 15 – Feb 19, 2012

"Presented by Belvoir and Sydney Festival in association with Carriageworks. Originally created by THE HAYLOFT PROJECT.A Malthouse Theatre Commission.This production will be staged at Carriageworks,...

I'm Your Man

I'm Your Man

Jan 12 – Feb 5, 2012

For 18 months theatre-maker Roslyn Oades and her trusty tape recorder followed a determined, young boxer from Bankstown through his preparations for a world-title fight....

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