Sydney playwright Amber Spooner has chosen a tricky subject for her first play. The play tells the story of Grace, a woman who was kidnapped as a young girl, spent years in captivity, and then escapes, returning to her family.…
It seems that no musical can open without the words the musical added on to the title. At the Hayes Theatre we had the adventurous American Psycho The Musical, we currently have the superb Mary Poppins The Musical and what …
Planes fly over their Marrickville apartment as Sam and Jess argue, for the hundredth time, about whose turn it is to take the bins out. While they still love one another, it’s clear they are in a rut. After …
A good friend of mine once gave me important counsel. He said, ‘Life is about one’s ability to manage chaos’. It is a profound truth. All the planning in the world doesn’t escape the fact that we really don’t know …
FRIENDS! THE MUSICAL PARODY skips lightly past issues of predictability and copyright of the popular NBC sitcom which aired from 1994. Fans leave bubbling over with commentary and amazement at how the writers were able to deliver this in less …
COME YOU SPIRITS are delighted to be the first professional theatre company in years to re-ignite The Haven Amphitheatre, The Barricade, Castlecrag, NSW with Romeo & Juliet plus Macbeth playing Tuesday 21st to Sunday 26th June 2022 …
POINT8SIX is a rare performance piece, exemplifying what is best in Melbournian theatre. It is dedicated, skilled, uncompromising, literary exploration of themes of power, technology, history, along with time travel, shifting identities, cosmological horizons and micro perceptual. Tim Wotherspoon has …
ALL THAT FOSSE was a good cabaret show.
The Vanguard Hotel which is located just as you come into King Street on the way to Newtown, is a regular cabaret venue with a small stage with a proscenium design.
The …
First to the rather dissonant title. ATE LOVIA translates from Tagalong, a Filipino dialect, as Big Sister. Fair enough. It just gets a bit much when the main character’s name is also Lovia. Is this a case of the playwright …
William Zappa’s presentation of some entertaining parts of Homer’s The Iliad demonstrated that the Epic is contemporary. Fate: men have no choice but to go off to war! Love: women tend the babies while the men fight! Patriotism: loyalty to …