Kate Stratford

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Theatre Now Review: Kinky Boots

Kate's Score:3 sequinned feather-boas Before it was a film, then a musical, “Kinky Boots” was a real event in England where the son of the company...

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Theatre Now Review: Chicago

Kate's Score: 4 Fosse hip rolls! Ah Chicago. A city more notorious than famous. You gave us gangsters and mobsters and stories of a city’s dark...

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On Sounds Review: Valer Sabadus

Kate's Score: 4 coloraturas If it ain’t Baroque … The audience settles quickly once the lights begin to dim and loving applause greets Erin Helyard as...

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Theatre Now Sydney Review: West Side Story

Alana's Score: 3 Stars Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein’s musical West Side Story endures. How? It’s a tale of conflict and forbidden love with...

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Theatre Now Sydney Review: Life of Galileo

Kate's Score: 4 revolutionary ideas As Fox Mulder once said, “the truth is out there somewhere”. Somewhere in space but not here on earth where,...

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Theatre Now Sydney Review: MARS : An Interplanetary Cabaret

Kate's Score:1.5 aliens Upon exiting the Old 505 after seeing MARS: An Interplanetary Cabaret, a bright young millennial was heard to say “that was F+*%ing...

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Theatre Now Review: Catch Me If You Can

Kate's Score: 4.5 cashier cheques The sting. The con. The shuffle. The snow-job. Smoke and mirrors. Two way mirrors which distort when reflecting. A framework...

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Theatre Now Sydney Review: Persuasion

Kate's Score: 3 Regency stripes. In adapting Jane Austen’s Persuasion for the Stage, Tim Luscombe has, for the most part, turned out a most creditable...

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On Sounds Review: WPO Destinations & Adventures

Kate's Score: 3.5 Nutcrackers The Woollahra Philharmonic Orchestra’s stated mission is “to bring musical enrichment to the community, providing professional attitude towards innovative and enjoyable...

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Theatre Now Sydney Review: Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Kate's Score: 4 meat pies We begin with a séance. And it is a brilliant, clever concept from director Theresa Borg. The Victorians of Britain had...

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Theatre Now Sydney Review: The Cherry Orchard

Kate's Score: 2.5 Chekhovian Guns Anton Chekhov (or Chekov) offered in The Cherry Orchard, his last play, a picture of the Russian landowning class in...

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Theatre Now Sydney Review: Blood on the Cat’s Neck

Kate's Score:Two and a half-interstellar aliens. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Blood on the Cat’s Neck is an absurdist German play whose alternate title is, intriguingly, Marilyn...

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