The Sydney Theatre Company has chosen well in bringing Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik’s 2007 Broadway hit musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s classic 1891 play, ‘Spring Awakening’ to Sydney.
‘Spring Awakening’ is a classic, terrific play about the tumultuous nature,
In the new American film ‘It’s Complicated’, written and directed by Nancy Meyers, Merryl Streep plays Jane, a well to do middle class, middle aged woman, torn between two lovers. The two lovers are her ex husband Jake (Alec Baldwin),
The New Theatre’s play for this years’ Mardi Gras Festival is British playwright Jonathon Hall’s ‘Hardcore’, in a production directed by Mackenzie Steele.
Hall’s play takes the audience into the world of gay adult films and features four young guys
Leading Jewish American playwright, and one time Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner for his play ‘Dinner with Friends’, Donald Margulies’s play ‘Brooklyn Boy’ tells an engaging, bittersweet ‘coming home’ story.
‘Brooklyn Boy’ starts with middle aged novelist Eric Weiss finally
Rupert Goold radical restaging of Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello’s 1921 classic play ‘Six Characters In Search Of An Author’ stands out as one of the highlights of this years’ Sydney Festival.
The play has been substantially reworked by Rupert Goold
Oscar Wilde’s 1921 short story, ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime’, in a fresh adaptation by Constance Cox, tells a very humorous, irreverent story, as one would expect from one of the world’s greatest writers and humorists.
In Wilde’s story, Lord Arthur
With her new film , ‘Bright Star’, Jane Campion has chosen to make a classic based on true life love story.
‘Bright Star’ charts the course of the love story that took place in the early nineteenth century between the
Urban Theatre Projects have chosen a painful, raw subject for their current production, ‘The Fence’, conceived and directed by Alicia Talbot. ‘The Fence’ is based on people who have spent their childhoods removed from their families, either being identified part
Writer Tom Wright and director Michael Kantor have teamed up to stage their contemporary adaptation of the great French writer Voltaire’s classic novel ‘Candide’ with their production ‘Optimism’ currently playing at the Sydney Opera House.
Voltaire’s ‘Candide’ amounts to a
New Zealand’s Red Leap Theatre company is currently presenting its stage adaptation of ‘The Arrival’, the award winning graphic novel by Australian writer Shaun Tan, at CarriageWorks.
‘The Arrival’ tells the story of an anonymous young man, brought up in