The Performing Arts WA Awards, or PAWA Awards, are annual awards for the live performing arts in Perth, Western Australia. The Awards are held by Artist Relief Fund WA, and were formerly known as the Equity Guild Awards. The awards include mainstage theatre and independent theatre and, from 2018, dance. A musicals & opera section was introduced in 2021.

Selected awards

Theatre: Best Mainstage Production

* 2023: ''The Smallest Stage'', Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre for

Perth Festival Perth Festival, named Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF) between 2000 and 2017, and sometimes referred to as the Festival of Perth, is Australia's longest-running cultural festival, held annually in Western Australia. The program features ...

* 2022: ''Beanstalk'', Spare Parts Puppet Theatre * 2021: ''Hecate'',

Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company The Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, also known as Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre, is an Aboriginal Australian theatre company, based in Perth, Western Australia in the heart of the Noongar Nation, a cultural group from the South West of Western Au ...

in association with

Bell Shakespeare Bell Shakespeare is an Australian theatre company specialising in the works of William Shakespeare, his contemporaries and other classics. It is based in Sydney. The Bell Shakespeare vision is to create theatre that allows audiences of all wa ...

and

*2020: ''On Our Beach'', Spare Parts Puppet Theatre * 2019: ''You Know We Belong Together'', a Black Swan,

and DADAA co-production * 2018: ''The Eisteddfod'', Black Swan State Theatre Company * 2017: '' Clinton: The Musical'', Black Swan State Theatre Company * 2016: ''

The Rabbits ''The Rabbits'' is a music theatre work with music by Kate Miller-Heidke and libretto by Lally Katz (with additional music by Iain Grandage), based on the book by John Marsden illustrated by Shaun Tan. As per the original book, it is an allegory ...

'', Barking Gecko Theatre &

Opera Australia Opera Australia is the principal opera company in Australia. Based in Sydney, its performance season at the Sydney Opera House accompanied by the Opera Australia Orchestra runs for approximately eight months of the year, with the remainder ...

* 2015: ''King Hit'', Yirra Yaakin * 2014: '' Boy Gets Girl'', Black Swan State Theatre Company * 2013: ''

Red Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondar ...

'', Onward Production * 2011: ''The Modern International Dead'', Deckchair Theatre Company * 2010: ''The Shape of Things'', Black Swan Theatre Company's HotBed Ensemble * 2009: ''Taking Liberty'', Perth Theatre Company * 2008: '' The Turning'', Perth Theatre Company * 2007: ''

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? ''The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?'' is a full-length play written in 2000 by Edward Albee which opened on Broadway in 2002. It won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play, the 2002 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, and was a finalist for the 2003 ...

'', Perth Theatre Company * 2006: '' The Arrival'', Spare Parts Puppet Theatre * 2005: '' The Visit'', BeActive BSX Theatre * 2004: ''Hidden Dragons'', Barking Gecko Theatre * 2003: ''Skin Tight'', Perth Theatre Company * 2002: ''Below'', Effie Crump Theatre & Perth International Arts Festival * 2001: '' Aliwa'', Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company * 2000: ''Plain Song'', Black Swan State Theatre Company

Dance: Best Mainstage Production

*2023: ''GLORIA'', Co3 Contemporary Dance *2022: ''Archives of Humanity'', Co3 Contemporary Dance * 2021: ''Hofesh in the Yard'', STRUT Dance in association with Hofesh Shechter Company *2020: ''Alice (in wonderland)'',

West Australian Ballet West Australian Ballet is the State ballet company of Western Australia and is based in Perth, at the Western Australian Ballet Centre in Maylands. The company was founded in 1952 by Madame Kira Bousloff (formerly of the Ballets Russes) and ...

* 2019: ''Dust on the Shortbread'', Anything Is Valid Dance Theatre

Musical & Opera: Best Production

*2023: '' La Traviata'', West Australian Opera,

Opera Queensland Opera Queensland is an opera company based in Brisbane, Queensland. The company was founded with funding from the Queensland State Government in 1981 under the name ''Lyric Opera of Queensland'' after the Queensland Opera Company was closed in ...

& State Opera South Australia and ''

The Addams Family ''The Addams Family'' is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. They originally appeared in a series of 150 unrelated single-panel cartoons, about half of which were originally published in ''The New Yorker'' over ...

'', Zealous Productions *2022: ''Angels & Devils'', Freeze Frame Opera * 2021: '' Così fan tutte'', West Australian Opera

References

{{reflist Australian theatre awards