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Grand Electric, SydneyThis sidesplitting off-Broadway production answers the question ‘what if the hero of James Cameron’s Titanic was actually Celine Dion all along?’
There’s little…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMMonday, August 26, 2024
Mark Haddon’s bestselling novel gets an Australian adaptation ‘that Christopher himself would enjoy’ – with a warning system, ‘timetables’ and an autistic star
The play has barel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMThursday, April 4, 2024
Theatre Royal, SydneyFifty years is a long time to be a rebel and this lovingly spoofy musical is a bit creaky these days – but this cast is fun enough to keep the audience cheering
The Ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMWednesday, September 6, 2023
Seymour Centre, SydneyNarrated by Norman Gunston, this musical about the former prime minister and the events of 1975 is often funny – but it’s messy and overstuffed
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:55AMSaturday, July 15, 2023
SBW Stables Theatre, SydneyOlivier-winning playwright Suzie Miller’s new work tackles the justice system from another direction – but its power is cheapened by melodrama
The percussive b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PMThursday, June 1, 2023
Australia’s new pop-up party might sound like your nightmare, but for some of us, to hear the people sing is just sublime
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMFriday, April 7, 2023
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera HouseJustine Clarke is electrifying delivering the former PM’s misogyny speech, but the work fails to reckon with the complexities of her legacy
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMMonday, October 31, 2022
Hayes Theatre, SydneyThis new take on the famously earnest biblical musical spends so much time apologising for its religious elements, it falls flat
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PMSaturday, March 27, 2021
A triumphant performance as musical moves from Broadway and the West End to Australia
If the world is looking to Australia to lead its primary theatre markets into the future, then it need l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMSunday, October 20, 2019
Sydney Lyric theatreDance is the rightful soul of a show that reminds us we’re stronger, and better, when we look out for each other
There might not be a musical easier to love than Billy …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMMonday, July 22, 2019
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera HouseHugely enjoyable revival of a play equal to Summer of the Seventeenth Doll gives a taste of what might have been
A hefty chunk of contemporary Australian pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AMFriday, February 23, 2018
Luke Skywalker twerks to Nicki Minaj. A dominatrix Darth Vader struts her stuff. Film fans are packing out performances of a show that combines cosplay with comedyLights flash like laser bea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:19PMThursday, February 15, 2018
Capitol Theatre, SydneyMamma Mia! is not a great musical, but for an audience that still holds a candle for Abba, that’s beside the pointThe jukebox musical behemoth that is Mamma Mia! ope…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02PMThursday, January 25, 2018
Sydney festival, CarriageworksAlanna Mitchell has turned her book about climate change into a mesmerising one-woman showA journalist is preparing to enter a submersible vessel that will trav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:14PMMonday, December 18, 2017
Alana Valentine and Ursula Yovich have created a show that defies categorisation: a buddy comedy and a family tragedy, all backed up by an electrifying soundtrackBarbara and the Camp Dogs is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AMSaturday, November 4, 2017
SBW Stables Theatre, SydneyMelbourne theatre company crafts a worthy stage performance using eight of the writer’s 2014 collection of short storiesWhen Christos Tsiolkas, the multi-award-w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMMonday, September 25, 2017
Lyric Theatre, SydneyEsther Hannaford brings gravitas and heart in an inspiring production that shows just what the jukebox musical can accomplishThe standing ovation began before the final …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:05AMTuesday, May 23, 2017
In the aftermath of some future disaster, a group of strangers reach for a shared language. The result is comic, melancholy and deeply unsettlingIn the first line of Joan Didion’s 1979 ess…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AMThursday, May 11, 2017
Wharf 1 Theatre, Sydney Theatre CompanyA refreshing take on sitcom tropes, this cinematic new play dishes out big social issues with a whole heap of goofballIt’s Christmas in May at Sydney…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMMonday, April 3, 2017
As the spin-off movie hits cinemas, we celebrate the series about ballet dancers coming of age that was really about showing compassion for misfitsDance Academy was the show with biggest hea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:02AMWednesday, March 29, 2017
It’s showtime! Our own Eddie Perfect (Shane Warne: The Musical) will write the score of Warner Brothers’ new musical adaptation of cult faovurite movie Beetlejuice. This new ver…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:38PMThursday, March 23, 2017
Immersive cabaret Hidden Sydney – The Glittering Mile will return in May 2017 for a strictly limited season presented by Live Ideas and Working Management with Vivid Sydney. Celebratin…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:20PMIn a world that cannot deny the current pop-culture obsession surrounding comic book superhero film adaptations, Puzzle Collective’s Superhal – advertised as a “Superhero Origin Story�…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:09AMWednesday, March 22, 2017
Yesterday afternoon lauded creatives (between them they’ve won Helpmanns, an Emmy, and a Tony) Brian Thomson AM, Julie Lynch, and Gale Edwards released a statement regarding Opera Aust…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:29PMThursday, March 2, 2017
Kate Mulvany is astonishing in the title role of Bell Shakespeare’s latest Richard III, but that doesn’t make it politically radicalRichard III, Shakespeare’s tragi-history about a tyr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMMonday, February 27, 2017
The 30th anniversary production of Alex Harding’s Australian musical (set in Kings Cross!), Only Heaven Knows, is all set to open at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre Co in May 2017. And no…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:33PMSunday, February 26, 2017
Playhouse, QPACLead singers of Grinspoon and the Living End share a role in the 90-minute thrill ride through protest-punk and rock’n’roll despairWhen young dirtbag punk trio Green Day s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12PMIn tribute to the late Jon English, his rock opera passion project, PARIS: A Rock Odyssey is set to return in a Melbourne concert series for just four performances in July 2017 at Melbourne…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:15PMTuesday, February 14, 2017
The filmed staging of the hit Broadway musical comes thrillingly close to replicating the live show – and its message is more relevant than everWho would have thought that one of the most …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMThursday, February 9, 2017
Good children’s stories usually have deeper meaning beneath the surface. Often our favourite childhood tales contain messages for bigger issues. The Harry Potter series is about learning t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:09PMMonday, February 6, 2017
We go to the theatre for the stories. We go to practise empathy and experience the lives of people whose stories are both similar and different to our own. Theatre’s mainstream sibling, ci…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:09PM 
