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Squabbalogic are back and this time they're tackling a revival of a classic work, trying to find its original kernel of authenticity before it became a gaudier, lighter-hearted thing: they'r…
In a sea of serious, artistic dance acts this fringe, Virada offers something different " it's fun, artistic dance, and is proof that dance can be creative and world-class while still being …
AussieTheatre has two double passes to giveaway to The Fabulous Singlettes at Glen Street Theatre on Wednesday March 4. The Fabulous Singlettes are a playful, post-modern musical…
Sexercise could be a ripper of a show if it toned up and got rid of the flab. Sexercise is a new Australian musical. Yay. It’s opening in a great new theatre venue, the Alex Thea…
Tommy was first conceived and recorded by the 23 year old Pete Townshend in 1968. It has now been re-conceived as a gender-bending Jazz explosion by Eric Mingus in a world premiere productio…
What is schmoozing? My trusty urban dictionary defines it as… Making ingratiating small talk " talk that is business oriented, designed to both provide and solicit personal information…
riverrun was inspired a few years ago by a Bloomsday reading of the final page of James Joyce's last novel, Finnegan's Wake. Olwen Fouere (who did the reading in Australia) has adapted this …
There is something about an opening night. An extra bonus of attending the opening night of Elise McCann's Cabaret Everybody Loves Lucy (which briefly played at the Cremorne Theatre February…
“There’s gotta be something better than this.” I don’t think so. This time last year, new independent company Hayes Theatre took over an old 110-seat theatre in Potts…
Enda Markey’s production of Blood Brothers has been enjoying standing ovations and sold out performances since early February at the Hayes Theatre Co in Sydney. Starring Helen Dalli…
What Rhymes with Cars & Girls was Tim (You Am I) Rodgers’s first solo album in 1999. Aidan Fennessy loved it so much that he wrote narrative to sit between the tracks and …
The devil comes to town in McVicar's thrilling new production of Faust for Opera Australia. Sex, drugs and pleasure abound in Opera Australia's stunning realisation of Goethe's cautionary ta…
Squabbalogic’s Man of La Mancha is set to be an exciting new venture for the company. A remount of a classic musical, the kind they’ve not yet attempted, it’s set to ope…
Burlesque dancer Angie Sylvia plays with fire. Literally. Her Fire Burlesque act involves naked flames, and if you sit in the front row of the Spiegeltent during her performance in Absinthe,…
In 1996, Disney Theatrical announced it was making a musical of their popular animated hit The Lion King (1994). Eyes rolled with memories of Disney on Ice productions and the fear of …
When Blue Wizard (Nick Coyle), an intergalactic traveller from a crystal planet where everyone is gay and a different colour (the beige Wizards have the gift of renovation, for example, whil…
On Sunday night, on the set of Blood Brothers at the Hayes, Geraldine Turner made her Sydney cabaret return after at least a decade away. She walked onto that stage and she started with a…
In The Heights won the Best Musical Tony in 2008. Melbourne independent company StageArt presents the Australian premiere and it’s an absolute winner. It nails the tone of a show th…
Em Rusciano returns to the Adelaide Fringe this year with The Motherload, in which she discusses being a child, being a mother, being a bad mother, and John Farnham. As always, Rusciano has …
Leon Radojkovic never learnt music as a kid growing up in Auckland. In fact, he was in his teens when he picked up his first instrument: the guitar. Because of its rock-and-roll allure, of c…
Psychopomp & Seething begins by taking the audience on a ride in the La Mama Courthouse. It’s not a hold on and scream ride, but you do move and it ends in pure darkness. And it…
Flying Dreams starts in an odd kind of way, with the audience pushed into singing along to a George Michael song (though I'm not quite sure why). But we leave all that behind quickly (thank …
"Welcome to Wonderland," The Fringe guide says and it's not wrong; Velvet is a wonderful wonderland. We enter an extravagant, slightly seedy disco and let our inhibitions fall away. We are b…
Matilda Award Nominated Sex With Strangers is back for a sizzling return season. Olivia is a woman d'un certain âge who retreats to a quiet bed and breakfast to work on her second novel. …
Blood At The Root is inspired by the true story of six black teenagers being charged with attempted murder after a school yard fight and bashing of a white kid. It is essentially a play abou…
