Monday, September 2, 2019
Roslyn Packer Theatre, SydneyPeake skilfully navigates the painful, raw experience of struggling to conceive in this stage adaptation of Julia Leigh's memoir
In Avalanche: A Love Story, Juli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03AMFriday, May 10, 2019
Evidence from Ms. Stone, who has accused Mr. Rush, the actor, of inappropriate behavior, was kept out of the trial of his defamation suit against an Australian news outlet.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54AMThursday, April 11, 2019
The actor said two front-page articles in 2017 wrongly accused him of sexually harassing a female co-star during a Sydney theater production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:17AMMonday, September 3, 2018
The country's performing arts funding model favors a group of established organizations at the expense of newcomers. Critics say this stifles innovation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AMTuesday, June 12, 2018
Bruce Pascoe and Stephen Page tell how a joking remark led to Bangarra's latest productionFifteen thousand years before the Egyptians, Aboriginal Australians were grinding grain " making the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PMMonday, March 26, 2018
The female experience of disease is at the heart of an extraordinary and moving showWhen Lara Veitch walks on stage in A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer " until then, a giddy, scatterb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26PMMonday, March 19, 2018
Hota, Gold CoastAustralia's funniest national treasure utterly unafraid to take the piss out of everyoneFor his first proper concert on home soil in three years, Tim Minchin had two running …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00PMThursday, February 22, 2018
Director Barrie Kosky's wild, grotesque, frenzied production resembles a cross between Mr Bean and the Hunger Games dystopiaEarly on in The Nose, two men in the audience stand up and stride …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMMonday, December 11, 2017
Lyric Theatre, QPACQueensland Ballet artistic director Li Cunxin takes the stage for first time in 18 years in pleasing yet predictable balletWhen Li Cunxin " better known as Mao's Last Danc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMSunday, November 19, 2017
Abba is everywhere in PJ Hogan's musical adaptation, which pulsates with high-spirited fun but eschews the film's feminist endingWhen PJ Hogan first approached Abba in the 1990s to ask if he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18AMFriday, June 30, 2017
Sydney Opera HouseIt's a dance that hits hard, and offers a whirlwind tour of Bennelong's troubled life and deathIn 1793, the Aboriginal warrior Bennelong " taken to London to be shown off a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48PMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Roslyn Packer Theatre, SydneyThe world premiere of Taiwanese choreographer Cheng Tsung-lung's Full Moon opens an uneven but ultimately uplifting showIn folklore, a full moon can lead to madn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMFriday, April 28, 2017
Sydney Lyric Theatre, SydneyEven Australian Idol Paulini's stellar voice can't rescue this musical, which turns the Whitney Houston film into a glitzy but baffling spectacle for the stageThe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMMonday, March 6, 2017
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company People power drives new energy into Australian premiere of Lucy Kirkwood's drama exploring US-China relations and the famous 'Tank Man' photogra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42PMThursday, March 2, 2017
Though it has a storyline you couldn't make up, this play about a transplant and friendship has a jumpy and unfocused frameworkOn opening night of Mark Colvin's Kidney " in a tense, funny sc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMFriday, January 13, 2017
Pakana writer Nathan Maynard's impressive debut play is about moonbird people but is rooted in the everyday, with an ability to laugh about itself - hard Once a year in Tasmania, Aboriginal …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42AMMonday, November 14, 2016
Theatre companies have no reason to be jealous of Bell Shakespeare's Othello, but artistic director Peter Evans may just be finding his feetWatching Othello once again in Sydney, my first th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:31PMWednesday, November 9, 2016
When performers take over a five-star hotel, how much is authentic and how much is PR? And does it matter?Sprawled on the immaculate, crisp white sheets of room 1107 is a man. He lies spread…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMThursday, October 27, 2016
Belvoir St theatre, SydneyIn a series of equally impressive and moving monologues, Brian Friel's play asks the audience whether anyone's memory can ever truly be trustedOn a small intimate s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42PMEnsemble theatre, SydneyWritten by a former Fairfax journalist, Jane Cafarella, the play mixes laugh-out-loud one-liners with flashes of true grief " but it only skims the surfaceE-baby prot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18AMMonday, September 26, 2016
Western Sydney street acrobatics troupe Dauntless Movement Crew delivers an earnest but underwhelming productionJump first, ask later. That's the motto of the Fairfield-based Dauntless Movem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:56AMFriday, September 16, 2016
The classic Brothers Grimm fairytale turns to the darker side of its source material in new stage productions at this year's Brisbane FestivalEveryone knows that Snow White " paragon of puri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20PMFriday, September 9, 2016
Joan Sutherland theatre, Sydney Opera HouseOpera Australia puts on a 60th anniversary crowd-pleaser with a risky attempt to re-create a bygone golden era that succeeds with verveWhenever I f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:44AMWednesday, July 13, 2016
Capitol theatre, SydneyInspired by another royal love story, Graeme Murphy's bold and daring update of the Russian classic tells a deeply human story, swans or no swans"There were three of u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PMFriday, June 17, 2016
Near operatic storytelling and inspiring music take Bangarra's brilliant effort on a journey from loss and pain to more hopeful themes such as kinship and artOUR land people stories " Bangar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:44PMWednesday, May 4, 2016
He was bullied as a teen, trained until he bled, and triumphed. Now Smith bids farewell to his globally acclaimed career on the stage that launched itIn 1989 Damian Smith, then a 16-year-old…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:16AMWednesday, March 2, 2016
Adelaide's fringe festival impresses with the mind-reading Colin Cloud and a relationship drama in which total number of audience members max out at two Related: Everything happens in Adelai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24PMTuesday, March 1, 2016
Roslyn Packer Theatre, SydneyA lively satire of the pomposity of the dance world is well paired with a new work that buys into all the cliches of modern dance " to mesmerising effectIn Cacti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMTuesday, February 9, 2016
Roslyn Packer Theatre, STC, SydneyNeil Armfield's inventive, evocative and cinematic adaptation exudes a painful political resonance that never feels didacticAt the heart of The Secret River…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16PMWednesday, January 20, 2016
Daniel Kok and Luke George explore the delicate rules of submission and domination in shibari while binding each other, and audience members, in ropeDark lighting combines with booming music…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56PMSunday, November 29, 2015
His choreography does not stray so far from Petipa but with unapologetic attention to detail, David McAllister's seasonal update is hard to resist ' The Sleeping Beauty: a lavish baroque fai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:56PM 
