Thursday, June 25, 2015
Artistic director David Berthold, formerly of La Boite, unveils his inaugural festival program inspired by local performer Future D FidelBrisbane festival will be bringing work from as far a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50PMMonday, March 23, 2015
Australian writer made his name with The One Day of the Year, a critique of Anzac Day, and BBC dramas including The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:46PMFriday, January 30, 2015
Performer Adrienne Truscott, of standup and Wau Wau Sisters fame, joins the Guardian Australia culture team to discuss this year's Sydney festival and the ideas it inspired, from the art of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19PMThursday, January 22, 2015
Billed as a dance and film work, this remarkable show is also compelling live theatre. Creators Jaco Van Dormael and Michèle Anne De Mey explain all Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36PMTuesday, January 20, 2015
Helpmann award-winning fringe hit makes main-house transfer, with the return of Verity Hunt-Ballard as the night-club hostess with the mostest Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52PMTuesday, December 23, 2014
Eamon Flack and Brigid Delaney join the Guardian Australia culture team to look back at a year of controversy, delight and some surprising Australian cultural highlights for 2014 Continue re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:40PMSunday, November 23, 2014
The playwright is closing out 2014 with two main-house premieres of her work: Switzerland, in Sydney, and Pennsylvania Avenue, in Melbourne Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16PMMonday, November 17, 2014
Sydney Opera House / Sydney Theatre CompanyWhile neither STC production is contemporary in the strictest sense, both have something to say about our current condition Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMWednesday, November 5, 2014
She doesnt like Tony Abbotts swimwear or policies, thinks Nigel Farage is frightening, loves Australia mostly and thinks Israel can be blind to its own faults. Anything else to add to the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32PMSunday, October 26, 2014
Northcote Town Hall, Melbourne festivalLachlan Philpott and cast resurrect the wider world of the woman who lived as a man in turn-of-the-century Sydney, but his central character gets lost …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32PMTuesday, October 21, 2014
Circus dominates at this year's Melbourne festival, but there's no big top, tiger or ringmaster in sight. Shows like Opus, The Nanjing Project and If These Walls Could Talk dish up classical…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:11PMThursday, October 9, 2014
The actor and director who has been instrumental in bringing Shakespeare to Australia will hand over the reins to co-artistic director Peter Evans at the end of 2015 Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:11PMThursday, September 18, 2014
The Matrix star will reprise his role in Becketts classic play at the Barbican in 2015 Hugo Weaving: I feel very insecure in front of an audience Read Guardian Australias original review of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:25AMTuesday, August 26, 2014
The former EastEnders star has turned musical theatre director with a tour of Shrek. He tells us about the appeal of an ogre with body odour and how to play Simon Cowell on stage Continue r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:47AMWednesday, July 2, 2014
Have Cleese and co reunited for the cash? Mostly, agree the critics. Despite the undeniable thrill of their old favourites, the Pythons could pay greater tribute to their own daring legacy M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:35AMFriday, June 20, 2014
Archers regular set to star in musical adaptation of Almodóvar's 1988 film Women on the Verge of a Nervous BreakdownThe venn diagram linking maverick Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodóv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:47AMMonday, June 16, 2014
Pop-culture polymath to add to hefty workload by directing off-Broadway production of Robert Boswell's The Long ShriftNot content with having actor, writer, film director, producer, lecturer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:14AMFriday, June 13, 2014
Gold TV will broadcast final night of the Pythons' 10-night run at London's O2 Arena 40 years after their last TV showFour decades after the last Monty Python television episode aired, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:58AMFriday, June 6, 2014
As Skylight is revived in the West End, the acclaimed playwright is joining us for a webchat. What will you ask him? 5.46pm BST We are living through curious times and they demand curious ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PMTuesday, June 3, 2014
Australian comedian will be drinking white wine in the sun with Milton Jones, Nina Conti and Jasper CarrottExpect the eyeliner to run out at British Summer Time in Hyde Park in London as Tim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:13AMFriday, May 30, 2014
Ben Elton's jukebox musical based on the music of Queen closes on Saturday. What next for the cast and the massive Freddie statue?High above the brown paper Primark bags and tourists of Tot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMWith hip-hop, puppets and a severed head, here are our top videos this week from the worlds of theatre, dance and comedy Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:23AMWednesday, May 21, 2014
American Beauty and The Kids Are All Right star is to play Goneril in Shakespeare in the Park production this summer John Lithgow to take on King Lear King Lears past and present in picture…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMFriday, May 16, 2014
Currently playing the mother of Jesus at the Barbican, the Irish actor will be joining us live online on Tuesday 20 May. Submit your questions in the comments trail belowElectra, Hedda, Mede…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:41PMThursday, May 15, 2014
Stage legends and members of public to perform all 154 sonnets in single evening which one would you read aloud?Barely has the quill dried on Michael Billington's series, Shakespeare's play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMFriday, April 18, 2014
The freewheeling comedian will be answering your questions live on Tuesday 22 April get your questions in now"How come Miss Universe is only won by people from Earth?" The freewhe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:21AMThursday, April 17, 2014
Rory Kinnear wants to bend it like Beckham and Hattie Morahan pitches a Hackney version of A Doll's House Which of the Young Vic's make-believe musicals gets your vote? Watch the Young Vic'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:39AMJohn Steinbeck's classic is revived on Broadway with an all-star cast, but the critics can't agree if its leads bring huge chemistry or are simply reading from CliffsNotesOf Mice and Men may…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMThursday, April 10, 2014
Photograph remains one of the period's most controversial images and one some US veterans have never let Fonda forgetJane Fonda sits astride a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, laughing wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:17PMWednesday, April 9, 2014
Social media abuzz after Spider-Man star makes unexpected appearance in The Drowned Man at London's Temple StudiosIt's what every Punchdrunk theatre fan craves: a one-on-one encounter with a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:16PMThursday, April 3, 2014
Robert Lindsay and Rufus Hound play stylish conmen in yet another West End movie adaptation but it's Katherine Kingsley who steals the show Read Michael Billington's four-star review of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AM 
