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, Ju…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03AMEvidence 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 03:54AMThe 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 03:17AMThe 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 11:18AMBruce 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PMThe 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, scat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26PMHota, 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 runnin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00PMDirector 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 strid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMLyric 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMAbba 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 i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18AMSydney 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48PMRoslyn 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 ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMSydney 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 stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMRoslyn 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’ ph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42PMThough 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, fu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMPakana 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, Aborigina…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42AMTheatre 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:31PMWhen 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 06:18PMBelvoir 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 intima…
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 pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18AMWestern 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 Mov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:56AMThe 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20PMJoan 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 03:44AMCapitol 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PMNear 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 – Ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:44PMHe 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 01:16AMAdelaide’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 Adel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24PMRoslyn 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 Cac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMRoslyn 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 Riv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16PMDaniel 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 08:56PMHis 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…
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