A set of crossroads was apt for Red Line Productions’ A View From The Bridge – it needed little else. Taking place amidst a turbulent period of American history and immigration ever as relevant today, […]

A set of crossroads was apt for Red Line Productions’ A View From The Bridge – it needed little else. Taking place amidst a turbulent period of American history and immigration ever as relevant today, […]
It’s almost always better when you start things off with a bang. Striding onto the stage without warning, a lone figure resolutely seats himself at a piano and begins to play, only for Cloud Nine’s strikingly talented […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
The latest Disney smash to get the stage-musical treatment, relive the childhood classic about a thief and fugitive who lies to a girl and her father so he can marry her under a presumed identity, […]
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 […]
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 […]