When the biggest highlight in your life for the past 30 years has
been your weekly bridge night out with the “girls,” what do you do
when one of your foursome inconveniently dies?
If you’re Connie, Leona and …
The playwright of HARVEY, Mary Chase, was born in 1907 in Colorado. Mary’s early years were spent with her 3 Irish Uncles who told her stories from Celtic mythology that featured ‘Pookas.’
Mary Chase’s play Harvey premiered on Broadway …
Many years ago now, as part of a Sydney Festival, I saw a play put on by the highly regarded British Theatre Company Theatre De Complicite, directed by Artistic Director Simon McBurney, called ‘The Street Of Crocodiles’. It told …
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE is a very relatable story. It’s about a young person, Millie Dillmount, full of life and ambition, who has formulated a plan for successful, happy life and acts on it. She moves from her small country town …
In the great Oscar Wilde’s 1892 play LADY WINDEMERE’S FAN It is the day of lady Windemere’s twenty first birthday ball. She is presented with both a beautiful fan from her husband and a shocking suspicion generated by her …
The new play at the New Theatre in Newtown is a revival of British playwright’s Hugh Whitemore’s 1986 play BREAKING THE CODE directed by Anthony Skuse.
There is a double meaning to the title of Whitemore’s fine play. Professor …
This is the new show at the Rockdale Theatre Guild. It is a revival of British playwright Jeffrey Archer’s 1987 play.
The back story to BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT is that Senior Counsel David Metcalfe has been charged with murdering …
Australian award-winning playwright, Daniel Keene’s absurdist comedy, Life Without Me, is not the usual fare you would expect from a suburban theatre company. With themes belonging to a theatre tradition epitomised by Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, you would …
This is James Roose-Evans 1981 stage adaptation of American Helene Hanff’s 1970 novel 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD.
It tells the story, theatrically, of the twenty year correspondence between Helene Hanff, struggling young writer living in New York and Frank Doel, …