As she gets set to play her ninth Mardi Gras, Australian comic Caroline Reid tells Jane Howard about camp, being offensive – and having to compete with GrindrJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:22AMThis dance theatre piece celebrates the joys and struggles of Australian youth, but is lacking in insight and emotional punchJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:52PMThere are shocked faces in the audience as they realise that emotions aren’t the only thing Yana Alana will be revealing tonight, writes Jane HowardJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:53AMPerth Festival: His Majesty's Theatre DownstairsIn the basement under His Majesty's Theatre we squeeze together in what little space there is alongside a small, wooden verandah. An assortmen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15AMFrom Punchdrunk's The House of Winter Lives, designed for small children, to Situation Rooms, about the arms trade, three shows are pushing the boundaries of what theatre can be. We talk to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37PMGillian Cosgriff’s witty cabaret piece captures the joys and anxieties of a 20-something femaleJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06PMDirectors are tearing apart Shakespeare and Homer to find truths that still feel shocking and freshJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:44AMThere’s gauze, dramatic music and the audience has to stand: but this circus show is best when it keeps it simple, finds Jane HowardJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:14AMThe director of one of Western Australia’s three main theatre companies, Barking Gecko’s John Sheedy, says that rather than succumb to the tyranny of distance, Perth’s artists thrive i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:09AMFrom cabaret with personality to the inevitable but delightful dorky storyteller – and who can resist a man in a squid costume?Jane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:23AMTim Crouch is a performer at the top of his game, sharing a text that plays as much with intelligence as slapstickJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:39PMJane Howard: Forklift exploits the possibilities to be found in flesh melding with metal, but at times loses its narrativeJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29AMSophisticated aesthetics, intelligence and rich artistry — the recipe for a good children's show is more complicated than you might thinkJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:51PMJane Howard: In a festival awash with circus, the tradition and simplicity at the core of this children's show is welcomeJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33PMPlaywrights love a dramatic death scene – but stage trickery is rarely good enough for the audience to suspend disbeliefJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:46AMIt confounds any effort to categorise it, but in that lies a certain freedom to relish every disparate elementJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:40PMThe audience become the key players in this playful, intelligent retelling of the Pied Piper of HamelinJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37PMFearless, faultless and shamelessly flirtatious, this contemporary circus is sexy and it knows itJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PMJane Howard: In the quiet company of strangers, Samuel Beckett's play finds the stillness it needs to be understoodJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15PMThe Arch, Holden Street Theatres, AdelaideIn Five Point One's premiere of Ben Brooker's The Lake, we find ourselves in some sort of post-apocalyptic world. Karl (Matt Crook) and Joseph (Brad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:47PMTheatre Works, Melbourne Festival This dizzying adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Grey offers different perspectives to each member of the audienceRoom of Regret is theatre to prompt quest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43PMDunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival TheatrePlaywright John Doyle mixes comedy and pathos to expose the lack of nuance in the science v religion debateThere is a beautiful video of the annou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:29AMWhat makes something a new Australian work? Belvoir's production of Angels in America suggests it's not always the text Continue reading...
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