Jolting you into your seat, The Bodyguard, in a manner unlike almost any other musical, starts off with a bang. Attention-ready and all too focused on the stage, the actual show kicks off with a […]
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BIG FISH
With film-to-musical adaptations the flavour of the day, the Hayes Theatre Co has provided another example of how it can be done. You might not have seen Big Fish, or if you did remember it […]
TALK
Hit and very miss, the Sydney Theatre Company’s attempted jab at Australia’s media landscape skewers its inevitably niche audience as much as it panders to them. Director/Writer Jonathan Biggins, ensuring the words Ray, Hadley, Andrew […]
TWO
Sometimes, it just takes two. There are fourteen characters in the Ensemble Theatre’s latest production Two, with Brian Meegan and Kate Raison adopting seven personas apiece. Each flitting about a local pub on a busy […]
RICHARD 3
It’s rare that a play receives such hype and attention before its debut, and rarer still when it so deserves it. Bell Shakespeare’s Richard 3, helmed by Artistic Director Peter Evans following the recent retirement […]
MARY POPPINS
Nostalgia goes a long way – so does a great cast. We’ve all seen the movie, but maybe not the musical. The Willoughby Theatre Company’s latest production has all the hallmarks of perhaps the most […]
SIDE SHOW
A talented cast isn’t everything; the Hayes Theatre Company’s production of Side Show being a case in point. A story revived and revised in numerous productions, the real-life tale of travelling ‘freak-show’ conjoined twins Daisy […]
THE MEASURE OF A MAN
Gavin Roach’s second instalment of the Anxiety Trilogy, if intriguing, leaves a lot to be desired. A one-man, 50-minute show as part of this year’s Sydney Fringe Festival, in his latest Roach expounds on life […]
WHERE DO LITTLE BIRDS GO?
A one-woman show, save a seldom-heard pianist, Where Do Little Birds Go? unfurls a chapter in underground London’s sordid history. Based on a true story: Lucy (Bishaniya Vincent) recounts her youth and friendships, moseying around […]
BATTLERS AND DREAMERS
Denim. Hair gel. A nice Australian neighbourhood. Power chords. The quintessential ingredients to any 80s farce, Battlers and Dreamers is an original musical take-off of all those classic Aussie family dramas you knew and loved, […]
WHARF REVUE
There’s never been a better time to stage a political satire. Coinciding with the first sitting week of the new Parliament, the Wharf Revue is back with no shortage of material direct from the halls […]
JEEVES AND WOOSTER IN PERFECT NONSENSE
Long before Jeeves was the go-to moniker for British-as-anything valets and the like, there was Jeeves (Joseph Chance) the British-as-anything valet and Wooster (Matthew Carter), the gadabout rogue, wreaking havoc on the early 20th century […]
LOOK BACK IN ANGER
Every play, to some extent, tries to immerse the audience in the action, however intimate or shocking. In Red Line Productions’ staging of John Osborne’s classic Look Back in Anger you are, thrillingly, as in […]
BETRAYAL
Chemistry can make or break a show – in Betrayal, it’s everything, and deployed to sublime effect. It’s a tale as old as time – three people, established friends and lovers, outwardly in happy, committed […]
YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
As if flipping through the pages of the iconic strip, the Hayes Theatre Company has joyously brought Charlie Brown and co to life. Simply staged with a local cast of six, the musical’s episodic approach […]
THE LITERATI
Exceptionally clever and outrageously fun, The Literati is well worth your time. A Griffin Theatre Company production co-produced with Bell Shakespeare – Australian playwright Justin Fleming has hilariously adapted Moliere with more contemporary prose in a […]
XANADU THE MUSICAL
Larger and louder than the Potts Point stage would seemingly allow, Xanadu packs a lot for both devotees of the original film and those who still can’t believe it was made. At once an adaptation […]
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Staging this play has always presented a challenge, to which Sport for Jove has risen, admirably. Neither obsequiously purist nor deferentially modern: the production is set in what is ostensibly 1920s era filmmaking, a witness […]
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
Arguably Tom Stoppard’s most famous play, this intimate staging of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead provides just the right setting for the author’s treatise on mortality, conventional logic and theatre itself. As much a collection of philosophical […]
WE WILL ROCK YOU
The title tells you everything you need to know. We Will Rock You weaves Queen’s greatest hits and thankfully, for both the fans and the uninitiated, many of their lesser known numbers and melodies into […]
THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Chekhov’s tragicomic classic gets a more modern treatment with the New Theatre’s production of The Cherry Orchard, focused much more on its tragic dimensions than its inbuilt lighter fare. Revolving around an aristocratic family returning […]
BELLEVILLE
Emotions. All of the emotions. Belleville parks its elephant in the room from the very beginning, making it evident that at some point, probably towards the end, something very, very bad is going to happen. […]
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