The Dark Stories company is back treading the boards on the dark side to bring you an immersive, interactive theatre production titled THE HAUNTING.
Do you dare to lay an unhappy spirit to eternal rest? This Ghost Story Mystery is …
Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play OUR TOWN focuses in on ordinary life in the small fictional American town of Grover’s Creek between the years of 1901 and 1913.
Watching the play one couldn’t help but feel a bit …
It was great to catch up with the last performance of singer songwriter Ally Morgan’s show NOT TODAY at the Bordello Room, which has been converted into an intimate theatre space, at the Kings Cross Hotel. The show was performed …
Some small communities and groups hang on tightly to traditions, fearing severe fracture and chaos if they let go. In THE APPLETON LADIES’ POTATO RACE we see one such town having the rules of its annual community highlight challenged by …
“Nothing takes you inside the soul of a human being like a musical does.” FUN HOME Book writer Lisa Kron.
Well, I have to say that I have never thought along these lines. Still, after seeing FUN HOME last weekend, …
In Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith’s HONOUR, Honor and George have been married for 32 years and, as in all good marriages, they have made some compromises along the way.
While George forged his career as a journalist, Honor left a …
As much as one would like to give unqualified feedback to YELLOW FACE with its explicit themes of race and identity, the nature of race, and self consciousness and appearance, the show itself has an awkwardness that does not do …
Australians conquered Paris with Claudel, and now we know why. Our world-famous choreographer Meryl Tankard and playwright Wendy Beckett created an innovative way of telling the story of French sculptor Camille Claudel (1864-1943). It premiered in Paris in 2018 at …
Brisbane’s Shake and Stir Theatre Company is touring its energetic adaptation of George Orwell’s classic, ANIMAL FARM. It’s at the Glen Street Theatre in Belrose until May 2. I went to the 1:00 show hoping there would be school students …
Based on the 1990 cult-classic John Waters (Hairspray) film, written and directed by Waters, CRY BABY-THE MUSICAL will be presented in the Opera House’s Drama Theatre from 22 July – 15 August, 2021. Highly subversive and proudly irreverent, …