the dressing room at the dog and trumpet

There is already in existence an ample and impressive collection of plays about theatre, from the inside. Sadly, local playwright Annie Cossins play ‘The Dressing Room at the Dog and Trumpet’, currently playing at Darlinghurst’s Tap Gallery, adds little to

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i am my own wife

Theatre doesn’t get much better than the Sydney Theatre Company’s presentation of Doug Wright’s play ‘I am my Own Wife’ which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

With painstaking research Wright brings to life a remarkable character, Charlotte von

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no names…no pack drill

NIDA is not only Australia’s most famous acting school but, on occasions also presents professional productions. Recently, the NIDA Company along with the SBW Foundation presented a revival of one of the classics of the Australian theatre, Bob Herbert’s ‘No

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embers

During the month of August the Sydney Theatre Company, together with Albury’s Hothouse Theatre Company, presented a production of Campion Decent’s powerful doco drama ‘Embers’at its Wharf 1 theatre.

Decent’s play was about the 2003 Victorian bushfires which represented one

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the devil wears prada

Hollywood came up with one of the best trailers of the year in line with the release of David Frankel’s ‘The Devil wears Prada’, based on the best selling novel by Lauren Weisberger, and straight away it went on my

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fat pig

Contemporary New York playwright Neil Labute is one of my favourite writers. He has an impressive body of work including the films ‘Nurse Betty’ and ‘In the Company of Men’, and one of my favourite plays ‘The Shape of Things’,

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a chorus line

In late June, as part of its 2006 season, the Bankstown Musical Society presented a production of ‘A Chorus Line’, one of the all-time great Broadway musicals, at its home base, Bankstown Town Hall.
It was a large scale production

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i get the music in you

‘I get the music in you’, one of the two shows currently playing at the Ensemble Theatre, is a vehicle to showcase the considerable talents of one of our leading music theatre artists, Queenie Van De Zandt.

Van de Zandt

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my super ex-girlfriend

In the new American film ‘My Super Ex-Girlfriend’ Matt Saunders is your average, all American single guy on the lookout for attractive female company. Matt gets more than he bargained for when he forms a liaison with beautiful gallery assistant,

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sione’s wedding

The New Zealand film ‘Sione’s Wedding’ is set in the heart of Auckland, amongst the local Samoan community. Within a month the community has a big celebration taking place, the wedding of one of their favourite son’s, Sione (Pua Magasiva).

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