Castle Hill Players have chosen well with Andrew Bovell’s powerful play ‘Things I Know To Be True’ beginning their 2021 season. The production was about to open last year before COVID -19 struck, so it is wonderful for audiences …
This is the second time the Rockdale Theatre Guild (RT) has put on a production of Royce Ryton’s 1972 historical drama ‘Crown Matrimonial’.
William Shakespeare wrote, in his play ‘King Henry the Fourth’, ” uneasy lies the head that wears …
After nearly a year long hiatus from its usual operations as Sydney’s longest running live performance institution, the Enmore Theatre is preparing to throw open its doors once again and welcome Sydneysiders back from Monday 22 February.
Along with all …
“I slept last night in a good hotel
I went shopping today for jewels
The wind rushed around in the dirty town
And the children let out from the schools
I was standing on a noisy corner
Waiting for …
As I was approaching Sydney Town Hall on the eve of Australia Day I was anticipating a traditional debate with affirmative and negative sides with each speaker putting his or her arguments in a pithy and witty way.
The audience …
The Hayes Theatre Company is set to reopen next month with a performance of Young Frankenstein. Their Sydney Festival romp, Rewired : Musicals Reimagined was a showcase for the regular creatives and versatile vocal and acting talent connected with the …
The show begins with a flourish. We see Kenny prattling around, talking on the phone, when a stage manager races down the aisle to tell him that he is supposed to be on stage to give a keynote address at …
This is regarded as one of the major events of the 2021 Sydney Festival and stars multi-award-winning vocalists and performers Paul Capsis (Threepenny Opera, Angela’s Kitchen, Cabaret) and iOTA (Smoke and Mirrors, Graeme Murphy’s Berlin, Hedwig ) in this concert …
This show was a cabaret at the Adelaide cabaret festival in 2019 called ‘Uncut’. It has been revised and renamed for this year’s Sydney Festival. The new title refers to one of the main songs in the show ‘Candide’ which …
all photos by Tom Massey
Brush up your Shakespeare,
With the broadest of brush strokes,
Discard your fear of Shakespeare,
With a play of puns and jokes.
Austin Tichenor and Reed Martin
Authors of Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)…