Logie-award winner Kat Stewart (Underbelly, Offspring) and her real-life husband David Whiteley will make their Sydney Theatre Company debut this November in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Roslyn Packer Theatre.
A jet-black comedy featuring some of the most crackling dialogue and savage one-liners ever written for the stage, this masterful play is an ode to the heartbreak of middle age. Directed by Helpmann Award-winner Sarah Goodes (Julia, The Talented Mr. Ripley), and hailed as “electrifying”, “outstanding” and “pitch-perfect.” when it premiered at Melbourne’s Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre in 2023, this acclaimed production was remounted for a triumphant season at The Comedy Theatre in 2024.
Stewart and Whiteley play Martha and George, a couple whose bitter marriage is served up to their unwitting younger guests, Honey and Nick – played by Emily Goddard and Harvey Zielinski, also making their STC debuts – as a taste of the humiliations and inevitable compromises to come.
Combined with the talents of director Sarah Goodes, with design by Harriet Oxley, lighting by Matt Scott, composition and sound by Grace Ferguson and Ethan Hunter, and video design by Charlie Bowyer, Albee’s classic promises to be nothing short of explosive.
Considered one of the greatest plays ever written, Edward Albee’s masterpiece first burst onto the stage in 1962, tapping into a growing unease about notions of decency and respectability, in a vicious dissection of a marriage over years of disappointments.
Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre production presented by Sydney Theatre Company in association with GWB Entertainment and Andrew Henry Presents.
Playing Roslyn Packer Theatre from Friday 7 November sydneytheatre.com.au
Folio at Roslyn Packer Theatre
Coinciding with this season of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Sydney Theatre Company’s new hospitality venue, Folio will open at the Roslyn Packer Theatre in mid-November. Inspired by the bars of the Midtown Manhattan theatre district, Folio will transform the space previously occupied by Walsh Bay Kitchen into a destination bar. Led by bar consultant Charlie Ainsbury (award-winning bartender and former owner of This Must be the Place), Folio will serve signature cocktails alongside a considered list of wine and champagne, and a light menu. Follow @folio.bar and facebook.com/folio.bar for updates
Sydney Theatre Company presents
A Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre production
In association with GWB Entertainment and Andrew Henry Presents
Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Directed by Sarah Goodes
Designer Harriet Oxley
Lighting Designer Matt Scott
Composition and Sound Design Grace Ferguson and Ethan Hunter
Video Designer Charlie Bowyer
With Emily Goddard, Kat Stewart, David Whiteley and Harvey Zielinski
Previews 7 – 10 November 2025
Season from 12 November 2025
Roslyn Packer Theatre and Folio Bar, 22 Hickson Road, Millers Point NSW 2000
Box Office (02) 9250 1777 / sydneytheatre.com.au
