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Dennis Kelly's cautionary morality fable of corporate greed, corruption and an insatiable hunger for power at any cost, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, is superbly executed in the f…
Written by the agitprop and comedic mastermind Dario Fo, Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas is Hoy Polloy and Terra Incognita's re-telling of the Christopher Columbus voyage. The …
We live within a conservative, disturbingly cruel government in 2015 Australia, where our most vulnerable citizens are the ones repeatedly targeted for more and more hardship, via our budget…
After Dinner, Andrew Bovell's light comedy, is currently making audiences laugh at Sydney Theatre Company. We sent some questions to everyman actor Glenn Hazeldine to find out his thou…
After Dinner, Andrew Bovell’s light comedy, is currently making audiences laugh at Sydney Theatre Company. We sent some questions to composer and sound designer Steve Francis, to se…
Once Were Leaders looks back in time, but simultaneously compares the past with the present. In the past, it suggests, there were leaders, whereas now … well, not so much. Drawing from …
While the national opera company is being lampooned for regurgitating the easier-sell popular works, it's great seeing smaller companies presenting works that broaden the opera experience. T…
Australian audiences are preparing to do the Time Warp (again!) and producers Howard Panter and John Frost have today confirmed the company of performers set to appear in the anticipat…
Simon Morrison-Baldwin pays loving homage to one of French history's most overlooked personalities: diplomat, spy, courtier and decorated serviceman Charles-Geneviève-Louise-Auguste-André-…
La Soiree has finally made it to Perth as part of the 2015 Fringe World Festival. Check out our exciting photo feature which showcases some of the acts that have enthralled, entertained and …
AussieTheatre has two double passes to giveaway to a romantic Valentine's experience at the Glen St Theatre on Valentine's day, 14 February 2015. Celebrate Valentine's Day weekend i…
The Hayes theatre has proved itself to be a home of firsts, so it seems only fitting that it’s the home of actor Jamie Kristian’s first foray into musical theatre. He’ll be…
Mike Bartlett's script for Cock is dense and aurally-driven; off-kilter language choices, particularly from central character John, buzz around the audience and into their ears. Naturalistic…
Phantom is a behemoth of a musical, the kind that can run for over 25 years on Broadway, even for the whole of this decade. It's the kind of musical that can cast a guy who sexually assaulte…
Last week, it was revealed that in the weeks before Hollywood heartthrob Rock udson died, he reached out to Nancy Reagan (the then-First Lady of the United States) for help in receiving t…
La Soiree is a feast of sensual delights that satisfies all tastes, as acts from around the globe have audiences enthralled, engaged and entertained. And at last it has arrived in Perth …
AussieTheatre has two double passes to giveaway to Bell Shakespeare’s As You Like It at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday 22 February. As You Like It is an adventur…
We have a highlight already for 2015 in ATYP's own The Voices Project: Between Us. Under Sarah Parson's expert directorial hand, 11 monologues are brought to life in the mystical maze-like W…
Loving Repeating is a musical about writer, poet, novelist and librettist Gertrude Stein (1874"1946). With music by Stephen Flaherty (Seussical, Ragtime) and lyrics by Stein adapted by Frank…
At least Jumpy is a play about 50-something women who have sex. There’s not that much written about the middle-aged years when women discover a new type of social invisibility, a…
I had the absolute pleasure of watching the Australian cast of ONCE The Musical strut their stuff at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne this week, and I would be underselling my reaction to s…
As Tina Del Twist stumbled up onto stage in a gin induced daze I wasn't sure what sort of show I had let myself in for. Five minutes in and the first set of laughs, I knew I was in for a fun…
Phillip A Mayer's Couples aims to shed light on marriage, commitment and love for four different couples attending a relationship therapy weekend at the fictional Paradise Valley Couples Ret…
Award-winning off-Broadway comedy hit Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche has titillated audiences this week in its Australian debut at the Brisbane Powerhouse for Melt: A Celebration of Queer Art…
Matthew Mitcham, the Australian diver who won an Olympic gold medal in Beijing in 2008 at the age of 20, is charming. You want to wrap him up in a great big hug and take him home to meet you…
