The dramatisation of Sonya Hartnett’s ‘Thursday’s Child’ tells a loss of innocence, coming of age story.
Hartnett’s story which is given a stage adaptation by the Monkey Baa Theatre Company under the direction of Sandra Eldridge is set in the
The classic 1973 American musical ’Chicago’, now playing in Sydney, is based on New York director Walter Bobbie’s 1996 City Cntre Encores production.
Bobbie’s production serves the play’s two heroines well, murderesses Velma Kelly (Caroline O’Connor) and Roxie Hart (Sharon
With ‘his 2008 AWGIE award winning play Beyond The Neck’ Tasmanian playwright Tom Holloway tells a story that delves deep into the darkness. His play explores the darkness surrounding the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre, and is the result of extensive
With ‘Ruben Guthrie’, Brendan Cowell has written a hard hitting play about one man’s battle with his addiction to alcohol. It is given a powerful, striking treatment in Wayne Blair’s current production of the play as part of Belvoir’s Company
Prolific Melbourne playwright Ross Mueller’s play ‘No Man’s Island’, in a Shaman production directed by Travis Green, tells the story of two cell mates.
The lights come on and two men are waking up and talking to each other from
With their new production the Epicentre Theatre Company under the direction of Dino Dimitriadis take on Harper Lee’s classic story about Southern racial intolerance, ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, by presenting the 1970 stage adaptation by Illanois playwright, Christopher Sergel.
Dimitriadis
Christopher Hurrell’s ‘Arts Radar’ production of local playwright Rick Viede’s play ‘Whore’ goes for highly charged relationship drama in a similar style to British playwright Patrick Marber’s ‘Closer’.
Viede’s main character is Sarah, a young Australian woman who is on
Louie Nowra’s popular play ‘Cosi’ revived by Newtown’s New Theatre tells one of those stories where a group of disparate people are brought together by a maestro to put on a performance which comes together despite all the odds.
There’s
In celebration of its 65th year the Genesian Theatre are presenting a production one of the world’s classic plays, William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. Veteran theatre director Roger Gimblett helms the production with ‘Hamlet’ being his fifth Shakespeare play. The production is
There’s an abundance of riches in the Ensemble Theatre’s production of Australia’s premiere playwright David Williamson’s latest show, ‘Let The Sunshine’.
For his latest, Williamson has come up with a cracker of a plot, in which he encases his satire-