Short + Sweet is my favourite time of year, and this new week offers another quite entertaining evening of live theatre. Festival director Wayne Tunks has chosen ten plays for this week, a fine selection of both comedy and drama. …
Blackout Theatre is kicking ass and taking names at Lend Lease Theatre in the Darling Quarter.
Add my name to the list: the list of supporters and advocates for this kick-ass community theatre and the list of audience members who …
If INTERSECTION is any indication of the professionalism, focus and commitment of the next generation of performing artists then the art is in a pretty good state. From 15 -24 years, these nineteen actors have my complete admiration for their …
The Sutherland Theatre Company is proudly presenting Andrew Morton’s heart-warming play, Bloom, at the Sutherland Memorial School of Arts from March 3-12.
Following the death of his father, 15-year-old Daniel and his mother Lisa are forced to move to an …
What’s the right stuff for a small theatre company to succeed in such a crowded Sydney performance scene? Drive, nous, commitment and a unique take on what will strike a chord with audiences? The General Public Theatre Company seems to …
The York Theatre foyer at the Seymour Centre proved to be an informal red carpet whilst invitees gathered for drinks prior to the recent Sydney Theatre Awards ceremony.
As well as being able to put faces to the critics, young …
Featured image – Megan Hipwell, Leigh Scanlon, Margaret Olive and Annette Emerton in CALENDAR GIRLS.
CALENDAR GIRLS by Tim Firth comes from the popular 2003 film of the same name which starred Helen Mirren and Julie Walters.
The play is …
There are nine simply superb plays being performed live on stage this week, at Short and Sweet. Captivating, strange, unique, and laugh-out-loud entertainment galore, and one with live music.
(1) – Wish You Were Hair
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Social satire in theatre is a relatively rare beast these days – and farce more so – but in today’s warped contemporary political landscape it feels more necessary than ever.
Richie Black’s THE INSPECTION manages to update this most challenging …
This is quite the experience seeing one of the great Broadway musicals performed in the tiny, boutique venue that is the Hayes Theatre.
CABARET begins with naive young American writer Clifford Bradshaw arriving in jazz-age Berlin, determined to live life …