In his program notes to his production of Cathy Downes’s play THE CASE OF KATHERINE MANFIELD director Ashley Hawkes wrote, ‘Every page of Mansfield is so weighted with ideas, stimulating, witty, delightful, dark and confronting ideas and really all I’ve
LOOPER (M) is an innovative addition to the time travel canon.
LOOPER is set in the near future and involves a group of hit men called Loopers who work for a crime syndicate in the further future. Their bosses send
In William Shakespeare’s great tragedy HAMLET, the dark Prince delivers one of the great lines describing life’s cruel unpredictability, ‘the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to’. In Jean Gordon’s play ZOE, the main character, Emma (Sarah Kate Mitchell),
It is 1958. We are inside The Artist’s Studio of Mark Rothko in downtown Bowery, New York.(A bit of background. Russian American Jewish artist Mark Rothko (25/9/1903- 25/02/1970), born Marcus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz, is regarded as one of the greatest painters
INTENELY SOUL is an enjoyable and fascinating performance of Indian dance and music.
Brother and sister Nirmal Jena and Pratiba Jena Singh follow their father’s school of Odissian classical dance. Spirituality is always an aspect of classical Indian music and
A Disney musical on stage or screen represents a formula which has survived the test of time, regardless of the tale’s age. Miranda Musical Society’s production ticks the important boxes in this regard.
From the overture and throughout, Alan Menken’s
The main plot to Jonathon Biggins’s debut mainstream play AUSTRALIA DAY revolves around whether the members of the Australia Day committee in the quaint, country town of Coriole can get their act together enough to put on a decent Australia
The remarkable CIRQUE DU SOLEIL are back in Sydney again and are gracing their Big Top stage at the Entertainment Quarter for an extended season, now playing until the 25th November, 2012. Visit CIRQUE DU SOLEIL’s official website for more
CESENA, ROSAS companion piece to EN ATTENDANT, is just as mesmerising.
It starts with a snap to blackout and in the gloom a full throated call to the dawn by a nude male. Throughout the show there is a sense
One of the hottest tickets on the Sydney theatre scene at the moment is Toby Schmitz’s I WANT TO SLEEP WITH TOM STOPPARD. Deservedly so. This is a well paced, sharp, funny and engaging night at the theatre.
Schmitz makes