4 stars
Before the late, great Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021) came on the scene music theatre was the province of feel good, unchallenging, escapist entertainment. Sondheim turned things around, writing musicals about difficult subject matters. He was a provocateur, asking …
A spectacular media call was provided by the creatives and entrepreneurs behind the brand new production of TINA : TINA TURNER THE MUSICAL.
Two high intensity numbers were presented – Rocket 88 and Nutbush City Limits.
In an …
4 stars
Iranian-Australian tar (Iranian lute) virtuoso and composer Hamed Sadeghi’s concert EMPTY VOICES was a revelation and a delight.
A very talented band of musicians joined him on stage to bring his latest compositions to life. Joining him in …
4 stars
College life at a prestigious university in the big city is wonderful and exciting. There are new lifelong friendships to form, wild college parties and their rituals, the drinking of lots of alcohol, lectures to perfunctorily attend, and
4 stars
Similarly to Mary Poppins, and one year apart, the main character in THE SOUND OF MUSIC was a good natured nanny, in this case Maria, who took over the duties of looking after ‘difficult’ children in a dysfunctional …
THE MINDER (Therese) fails to fully engage her brain, before blurting out “Looking after a scrungy old drunk is dead-set the best job I am gonna get.” Very entertaining elder-abuse drama about the famous gifted painter, who has become the …
Live theatre event, acting is reacting, this cast of three actors, has provided an amazing night of discovery. We all apparently know everything to know about the breathtaking life of ALBERT EINSTEIN. Preconceived by humanity, he has the …
4 stars
“Hey Siri, pump me up” is Will’s instruction as he prepares
breakfast and grooves around the room before Katie emerges
from her offstage bedroom. Katie wants to tell Will about
a risqué promotional idea she wants to pitch …
The coronation mattered not to the thousands of people who flocked to the Sydney Opera House on Saturday 6 May 2023. The House was stretched to the limit with the Australian Ballet continuing their season of the magnificent “Jewels” by …
Arthur Miller, who wrote this play, once commented that a playwright’s reward “is to know that by one’s invention a mass of strangers has been publicly transfixed.”
If that be so, then he would have been very well-rewarded by the …