Emme Hoy has been appointed Sydney Theatre Company’s new Patrick White Playwrights Fellow, shortly before her adaptation of Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – directed by STC Resident Director Jessica Arthur – is to open at Roslyn Packer …
In this World Premiere of BECOMING ELIZA, Anna O’Byrne tells her personal story of playing Eliza in the 2016 recreation of the original musical My Fair Lady. Dame Julie Andrews personally interviewed, coached and gently encouraged Anna in the …
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 …
The hilarious New York and Las Vegas hit FRIENDS ! THE MUSICAL PARODY comes to Sydney this week as part of its Australian tour, playing at Riverside Theatres, Paramatta from Friday 10 June until Saturday 18 June.
The stellar …
Whilst watching Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s SEXUAL MISCONDUCT OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES, there was another play that was running around in my head. It was American playwright David Mamet’s play OLEANNA.
The similarities between the two plays lie …
There are many, many shows that finish with the hero/heroine dying and the audience is caught up in a huge groundswell of emotion. Shakespeare knew how to reach audiences when he had Romeo first and then Juliet die, the result …
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 …
It seemed that the entire front bench of the NSW Government attended the premiere of Mary Poppins.
In particular, Deputy Premier Matt Kean attended with his young family and Premier Dominic Perrottet walked the Red Carpet with three of his …
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 …