This is a tense family drama, measured with some humour, written by two local playwrights. It is the play’s second production, the first being performed by the Sutherland Theatre Company, where they had both been members for over thrity years.…
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE : AN ADAPTATION IN WORDS AND MUSIC is the theatrical retelling of Jane Austen’s most famous work. The enduring story of the romance between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy is presented in a warm, intimate drawing-room setting, …
This is community theatre at its best. The Lane Cove Theatre has selected a complex play and succeeded in presenting this dramatisation of a true story. The ‘radium girls’ were 1920s workers who contracted radiation poisoning…
Chekov always maintained that The Cherry Orchard was a comedy. In Gary Owen’s Chekov inspired play, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, the comedy is there in spades, cutting through the calamities, easing the tragic trajectory.
Moving the setting from pre-revolution Russia to …
Kim Clifton and Robert Snars in HANGMEN Photos © Bob Seary
Six years ago, Deborah Mulhall directed one of the highlights of New Theatre’s 2018 season with The Lieutenant of Inishmore and now she has done it again with another …
For as long as I can remember, the Genesian theatre has put on one Agatha Christie ‘s play every year. This has been a successful strategy by them, giving them great houses.
Set in the early 1950s, MURDER ON THE NILE …
The Board of the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) has appointed actor, director, writer and producer Mitchell Butel as its new Artistic Director and co-CEO, taking over from Kip Williams who is stepping down at the end of the year.
Butel …
SISTER ACT THE MUSICAL has landed in Sydney, praise the Lord! As most will know, this 2006 musical has evolved out of the 1992 huge hit movie Sister Act starring Whoopi Goldberg.
The scenario, set in the late seventies in …
The West End director of SISTER ACT THE MUSICAL, Bill Buckhurst, spoke of the difficult gestation of the musical.
Whoopi Goldberg was keen to be included in the cast initially as Dolores, the nun on the …
SIMPLY BRILL 2024 – THE TEENAGERS WHO STOLE ROCK N ROLL. These three acclaimed entertainers, Amelia Ryan, Michaela Burger and Michael Griffiths deliver impeccable performances, and the excellent production shines, giving a detailed pop music history lesson, with this joyous, …