My response to Kiwi psychiatrist Dr Jo Prendergast’s show CANCER AND CARTWHEELS is a personal one. Like with Jo, cancer has played a part in my life. With Jo it was breast cancer, first diagnosed in 2021. For me …
James Valentine’s Upbeat Revue
Well known ABC radio personality fronted his Upbeat Revue at The Foundry Theatre in The Star. The revue is an entertaining mix of jazz selections and humorous stories, observations, and discussions with the audience.
The show …
Laura Wade’s POSH is a reasonably accurate fictionalisation of an Oxford University student club called the Riot Club, originally called the Bullingdon Club, founded in 1790. In one scene, the ghost of 17th century Lord Ryott appears in a …
OLGA KOCH COMES FROM MONEY
As the audience eagerly waited for the show to start The Beatles BABY, YOU’RE A RICH MAN was playing over the sound system, foreshadowing themes Olga Koch explored during her enormously funny routine.
Olga admits …
A couple of clunkily attired characters bumble an introduction that they were their being the support act for TWO HEARTS and launch into a catchy country style song about men’s mental health. The conceit is mental health being …
A packed Enmore Theatre was treated to wild and entertaining show by the flamboyant cabaret artist Reuben Kaye. Before the show started the music was thumping through the sound system with songs such as I Was Made for Lovin’ …
Live Theatre doesn’t get much better than this brilliant spectacular, stage adaptation. Steve Coogan delivers a delightful TOUR-DE-FORCE PERFORMANCE in this world première stage adaptation, of Stanley Kubrick’s legendary thermonuclear political satire, the black comedy masterpiece DOCTOR STRANGELOVE.
Captured live …
Harry Jun presented his funny and thoughtful show FRIENDSHIP SAFARI as part of the 2025 Sydney Comedy Festival. Harry is concerned about the loneliness epidemic in Western society and is keen to promote friendship with its many and varied …
Rebecca McNamee’s “Abigail Williams” is a startling new play that absolutely warranted a life beyond the NIDA Emerging Artists Festival. Under McNamee’s incisive direction—and with Ebony Tucker in dual roles as both lead actor and producer—the piece transforms a …
Above Vidya Makan in Sydney Theatre Company’s BLOOM. Pic Daniel Boud
As we took our seats and waited for the action to begin, I noticed that one of the patrons in the row ahead was playing scrabble, no doubt putting …