the great american trailer park musical

It’s coming up to the silly season and Newtown’s New Theatre has got into the mood by putting on the Australian premiere production of the spoof American musical, ‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ (book by Betsy Kelso and music

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the bougainville photoplay project

This is a warm, engrossing night at the theatre as Dr Paul Dwyer, Chair of the Performance Studies Department at Sydney University, shares his personal journey to a captive audience at Belvoir’s Upstairs theatre.

The main strand of Dr Dwyer’s

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songs of grace and redemption

Devil May Care’s production of British playwright John Donnelly’s play ‘Songs of Grace and Redemption’ was a whirlwind ninety minutes of theatre.

Donnelly’s songs take us into the complicated worlds of five young under thirty year old singles, Sarah, Steve,

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uncle vanya

As a theatre lover, this was one of those nights that one just wanted time to stand still. This is as good as it gets! Hungary’s Tamas Ascher, one of the world’s best directors, directing one of the most outstanding

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corpse

British playwright Gerald Moon’s 1984 play ‘Corpse’ is one of the finest plays of the comedy thriller genre.

Moon’s play is set in London in 1936, charts the story of rivaling twin brothers, Evelyn and Rupert Farrant. Evelyn, a struggling

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the divine miss bette

Catherine Alcorn’s show ‘The Divine Miss Bette’ is one of the best shows that I have seen in the tribute show genre.

Alcorn has a bit of the inside running on doing a Middler show as her vocal coach is

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the grenade

In ‘The Grenade’, political lobbyist Busby McTavish (Gary McDonald) is having a regular day at home with his family, his second wife Sally McTavish (Belinda Bromilow), their new baby, and Lola (Eloise Mignon), his precocious teenage daughter from his first

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a solitary choice

Many of us have dreams of living a life less ordinary with very varied results. In Sheila Duncan’s one woman play ‘A Solitary Choice’, the Seynour’s final BITE production of the year, Tamara Lee plays thirties something woman Ruth who

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true west

In Sam Shepard’s searing 1980 play about sibling rivalry ‘True West’, early thirties screenwriter Austin has taken time away from his wife and kids and the family home in northern California, and is house-minding his mother’s home 40 miles east

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