bale de rua

A company of fifteen Brazilian street dancers , BaleDeRua, are currently igniting the Concert Hall stage, a venue that is usually the preserve of classical music. The BaleDeRua (translates as street ballet) are in Sydney to present their new show

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crestfall

Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe play ‘Crestfall’, currently having a run at the Stables Theatre in Kings Cross, presents one dark, nightmarish world.

We find ourselves in a township in the shadow of The Bonelands, a filthy abattoir in which men

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short and sweet opening night 2010

The annual Short and Sweet Festival kicked off at the Newtown Theatre last night with a selection of ten short plays. This was a very patchy start to the Festival!

These were my picks of the best of the ten

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the book of everything

The upstairs theatre at Belvoir Street is normally home to dark, complex, often politically based adult theatre. Company B’s new family friendly production, ‘The Book Of Everything’, presented together with Kim Carpenter’s Theatre Of Image’, makes for a refreshing change.

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tot mom

Oscar award winning film director Steven Soderbergh’s much anticipated stage production ‘Tot Mom’ is currently playing the Wharf 1 theatre at the Sydney Theatre Company.

‘Tot Mom’ is based on a criminal court case that is currently going through the

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the informant

Are you in the mood to see a genuinely intriguing film? If you are, then go see Steven Soderbergh’s new movie ‘The Informant’!

‘The Informant’ is adapted from Kurt Eichenwald’s best selling 2000 book, ‘The Informant’. Eichewald’s book tells the

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parkie

David Koumans’s production, for the Woof/meow theatre company, of Melbourne playwright Daniel Hayward’s promising first play ‘Parkie’ is the inner city fringe theatre, the Tap Gallery’s final play of the year.

Hayward’s play is an original, engrossing work that takes

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absurd person singular

For its final production of the year the Ensemble Theatre have gone for a play from Sir Alan Ayckbourn’s rich body of work, his 1972 comedy of social mores, ‘Absurd Person Singular’. This play is one of the most frequently

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a midsummer’s night’s dream

The final production, in another successful year for the B Sharp program, is Company B’s Artistic Associate Eamon Flack’s production of the most playful of the Bard’s comedies, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.

This was a high spirited production with a

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dickens down under

For their final production for the year, or as they have called it ‘their pre- Christmas treat’, the Genesian Theatre Company are presenting the world premiere of ‘Dickens Down Under’, a Victoriana Vaudeville by prolific Australian playwright, Mel Morrow.

Morrow’s

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