cabaret

For its final production of the year Newtown’s New Theatre has gone for a classic, the great 1966 American musical ‘Cabaret’, originally adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s novel, ‘Goodbye to Berlin’.

Louise Fischer, the New’s Artistic Director, picks up the play

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the christian brothers

Gipsy Tap is currently presenting a revival of Ron Blair’s classic 1975 one man play ‘The Christian Brothers’ at the intimate Tap Gallery theatre, in a production directed by Richard Cotter.

In classic dramatic style Blair’s play, set in the

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mercury

Are you in the mood to see some great dance? If you are, get along to the Sydney Dance Company’s new production, ‘Mercury’, currently playing at the Sydney Theatre.

‘Mercury’ is a full length work created for the Company by

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an education

Lone Scherfig’s fine film ‘An Education’ is one of the best films to come out of Britain this year. Scherfig’s film features Nick Hornby’s screen adaptation of the memoirs of British journalist Lyn Barber.

For the film Lyn becomes Jenny,

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the wharf revue- pennies from kevin

The Wharf Revue team, one of the great innovations of Robyn Nevin’s time as Artistic Director of the Sydney Theatre Company, are entertaining audiences again with their latest show, ‘Pennies from Kevin’, currently playing at the Sydney Theatre Company.

The

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scenes from communal living

Marko Mustac Productions and Impro Australia have come together to put on a fun show around that perennially fertile subject of young people living communally.

‘Scenes from Communal Living’ is the brainchild of Stewart McCure, a long time impro artist.

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‘happy days’

Yes, this is the play which features a middle aged woman who is half buried in a large mound of earth. It’s one of those iconic images, much like Edward Munch’s ‘The Scream’ is to the visual arts. Now is

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strange attractor

Australian playwright Sue Smith’s new play ‘Strange Attractor’ is set in a remote railway construction camp deep in Western Australia’s mining country at the time when one of their own, Gus (Sandy Winton) loses his life during a vicious cyclone.

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missing pieces

Betrayal takes many forms. In Pinter’s classic play ‘Betrayal’, Jerry has an affair with Emma, the wife of his best friend, Robert. In local playwright Shelley Wall’s first play, ‘Missing Pieces’, two married women, Jackie and Carla, begin a love

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the sunset limited

The Ensemble Theatre Company’s current production of renowned American writer Cormac McCarthy’s (‘The Road’, ‘No Country For Old Men’) The Sunset Limited’ is a dark journey.

Here is the set-up. Two middle aged men, one white and one black, we

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