In American playwright Julia Cho’s play ‘The Piano Teacher’ we are invited into the cosy, old worldly home of Mrs K, an elderly retired piano teacher. We are her guests because she wants to tell us about her life.
The
The appeal of Australian playwright Verity Laughton’s absorbing new play ‘The Sweetest Thing’ is vicarious in nature, as we watch the choices that her characters make, and how these choices impact on their lives.
Laughton’s play charts the journey of
Benito Di Fonzo’s memorably titled fringe hit is currently having a return season as part of the Seymour Centre’s annual BITE (Best of Independent Theatre) program.
Unlike many shows in this genre, Di Fonzo’s show does not see the singer
‘Brand Spanking New’, described as ‘an annual celebration of New Australian playwriting’, is currently playing at Newtown’s New Theatre.
Over two weeks ‘Brand Spanking New’ explores monologues, short plays, sketches and excerpts from longer pieces. This year’s season features new
The clowns are back and they’re in great form with their new show, ‘The Wharf Revue- Not Quite Out Of The Woods’ at their home venue, Wharf 2 at the Sydney Theatre Company.
Straight away, the Revue team set the
From humble beginnings Darren Coggan’s concert show about Cat Stevens has grown to be something much more substantial. Peter Cox originally came up with the idea of Coggan performing a concert show about Cat Stevens in 2006. The show, titled
This week’s movie of the week is the British film, ‘The Reluctant Infidel’. This was a clever, refreshing, wise and at times very funny film. The film is director Josh Appignanesi’s adaptation of David Baddiel’s book.
It’s a great scenario.
Tennessee Williams in his 1945 play ‘The Glass Menagerie’, written in the key of sorrow, remembers his family and his beautiful sister Rose’s tragic demise.
Williams sets his play in a St Louis slum apartment. Struggling single middle-aged mother Amanda
After a successful season in Melbourne (premiered at the Regent theatre late in April), ‘Fame The Musical’ has come to town, and is currently playing Sydney’s Capitol theatre.
The musical (music by Steve Margoshes, lyrics by Jacques Levy and book
The Shire Music Theatre’s choice of a rarely performed Broadway musical, Bill Russell and Henry Krieger’s 1997 ‘Side Show’, proved to be an inspiring choice.
‘Side Show’ was inspired by and loosely based on the lives of Daisy and Violet