the best little whorehouse in texas

This was an energetic attempt at presenting a very well-known musical. The show contains fine characterisations, situational humour, excited ensemble moments and subtle sideways glimpses at vulnerability. These all were in evidence to some degree in this version.

The extended

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killing them softly

Wise guys, goodfellas, reservoir dogs. You dig the lingo, get the jargon, like the genre, you’ll dig, get and like KILLING THEM SOFTLY (MA) the latest film from CHOPPER writer/director, Andrew Dominik.

Returning to the milieu of contemporary crims and

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lawless

LAWLESS (MA) is a prohibition era crime saga of bootlegging, throat cutting, moon shining, and gun shooting from the team that had the temerity to transfer the Western to outback Australia.

Sure we had sly grog and illegal stills seconded

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red wharf: beyond the rings of satire

This year’s production of The Wharf Review, entitled RED WHARF: BEYOND THE RINGS OF SATIRE, is bright, funny and very entertaining.

This is the thirteenth season of The Wharf Review. The current Revue team of Jonathon Biggins (only on video),

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potted potter

Witches, wizards and Muggles of all ages will love this magical, hilarious riot. The house was in hysterical fits of laughter the whole show. Some audience members wore wizard robes.

‘The un authorised Harry experience’, it is for Harry Potter

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legally blonde

A hit, large scale musical, generally emanating from those capitals of entertainment, Broadway or the West End, is a godsend for the live theatre industry.

Producers can take the blueprint, usually under the tutelage of the original director, and send

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sex with strangers

Are we genuinely in such a great place in human history?! The huge technological advances that have taken place in the last fifty years would indicate so. And yet….are human beings happier? We are much better informed, absolutely, however do

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justin and jordan at the sydney fringe 2012

Following in the footsteps of such great comedy duos as Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello (not the Lib pollies), Martin and Lewis, Morecambe and Wise and Pete Cook and Dudley Moore are Australia’s own Justin and Jordan.

Having been

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a picasso

The sparks keep flying in Nicole Buffoni’s strong production of American playwright Jeffrey Hatcher’s taut, engrossing drama, A PICASSO, currently playing at Kirribilli’s Ensemble Theatre.

The play starts with the great Pablo Picasso (Danny Adcock) pacing up and down a

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last

The famous Spanish playwright Frederico Garcia Lorca is quoted as saying, ‘A play is a poem standing up’.

Accomplished writer and performer Helen O’Leary’s new one woman play LAST is an extended, free association poem/rap/open and free discourse with the

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