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The Lowdown Hokum Orchestra have been around long enough to know exactly what they're doing. If only they'd have the confidence to leave it at that. The setup for That's Showbiz is tha…
High Society is a musical based on the 1956 Hollywood movie starring Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly, which in turn is based on The Philadelphia Story by Phillip Barry. With…
Welcome to Little V's nightmare: a place where time is irrelevant and nobody is safe. Virginia, the eponymous Little V, has a surprise for us, but we must wait. Meanwhile, we are subjected t…
It's not for nothing that Church of Wonders is on at 10:15 at night. It's the sort of filthy pleasure best enjoyed in the very late evening. Melbourne-based women's performing troupe Chest o…
After seeing Gender Spanner, the show directly following it at Scratch Warehouse, F*#king with Gender, all seemed a bit too safe " if beautiful to look at. Taking its inspirations from Strin…
High Society is not a high point in programming at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre. Cole Porter is a witty, lively, sensitive and influential writer, and his songs are highly universal but not,…
It is all too easy for the perception of artists who inhabit primarily visual disciplines to extend no further than the physical entity that they present on stage " a vision of the drag quee…
The fear sets in when the pre-show music is Enya. What if it’s a feminist performance-art trigger-warning sacred-vagina dance? If is. With cloaks, poetry and a sperm mime performed by …
The Aussie Flim Flam Japanese Burlesque Revue are taking a troupe of cabaret and burlesque artists to Tokyo for one week in November to experience and share their culture and art with their …
It’s a love song to life, love, and being outside the ordinary, a cult musical that left an indelible mark on the musical theater landscape. It’s Rent, and it’s coming t…
18 talented Sydney children aged from 8 - 14 have been chosen from over 1000 hopefuls to play the youngest members of the von Trapp Family in Sydney's highly anticipated revival of Rod…
Minnie and Mona like to play. Minnie wants to play first date, to play ants, to be a unicorn with a cheeky secret. Mona just wants to play dead. To be dead. Suicide is a tough subject and Th…
Adelaide acting student Lauren Krelshem turns 21 today and thanks to the support of her friends, family and the international arts community, she has been treated to a virtual birthday party…
Neo Radio delivers a slick and exceptionally silly film-noir-detective-thriller-jukebox-musical-romp in La Petite Mort. With flavours of classic 1940s noir by way of The Goon Show, the whole…
German actor Klaus Kinski (1926-1991) was an emotionally unstable, self-proclaimed sex addict. His autobiography recounted, in gleeful detail, his appallingly destructive obsessions. Two law…
Kate Grenville’s award-winning novel The Secret River was adapted by Andrew Bovell (Lantana, When The Rain Stops Falling) into a landmark stage production as part of the Sydney Festiva…
Experiencing Steppe at 707 Operations, it struck me that, for the people of Poland during the Second World War, there was no least worst option. The Nazis had come from the west, and then th…
This is no 'greatest hits' tribute show. Sophisticated Lady strips away the gloss of idolism from three of the most influential and iconic figures of jazz to examine the humanity beneath. Sh…
An exciting new initiative between Malthouse Theatre and Monash University, Welcome to Nowhere gives us five brand new plays written by some of Australia’s most fascinating playwrights…
Before you even get to the doors of the Space Theatre, the apparently sleeping man, wrapped in a quilt on the floor like a dropped burrito, tells you you're not in Kansas anymore. You're def…
Shaun Rennie is directing a new production of Rent at Sydney’s increasingly influential Hayes Theatre from 8 October – 1 November, and it’s shaping up to be a really int…
Sad Digger Mad Mary is a hilarious piece that treads the fine line between comedy and tragedy. Performed by superstar Tom Halls, it has you laughing one minute and seriously re-thinking your…
Bridget is obsessed with rock bands. Georgie is obsessed with death. Together we indulge their obsessions, because we understand them both and the moments and places they connect. Performed …
Andrew Cook has been having something of a moment. From understudying major parts in King Kong and Moonshadow to landing a featured role in Strictly Ballroom and blowing audie…
AussieTheatre has 4 double passes to giveaway to The Cunning Little Vixen at the Sydney Grammar School's 'New Hall' on Friday 2 October. Sassy. Sexy. Enthralling. Experience the fir…
