Mark G Nagel

On Sounds Review: Sydney Art Quartet ‘Crossroads’

The Sydney Art Quartet was founded in 2015 by artist director James Beck. The raison d’etre of the virtuosic quartet is to “playfully sidestep...

Theatre Now Review: Kasama Kita

Mark's Score: 4.5 stars It is 1974 and martial law in The Philippines is well ensconced under Ferdinand Marcos, it having been mockingly “ratified’ the...

Theatre Now Review: Simple Souls

Mark's Score: 3 /5 Stars This high-tech world we inhabit would have us feeling a lesser mortal if we fell behind the times and god-forbid...

Theatre Now Review: The House at Boundary Road Liverpool

Mark's Score 3 / 5 Stars The press release for this work is what whetted my appetite: ‘The House at Boundary Road Liverpool is a...

Theatre Now Review: The Last Wife

Mark's Score: 4.5 stars Let me declare from the outset that historical drama is just my thing, especially when it is turned on its head....

Theatre Now Review: Romeo & Julien

Mark's Score 3.5 stars Shakespeare’s immortal play stands up well under adaptation: Baz Luhrmann’s post- modern film, West Side Story, Prokofiev’s ballet (originally with a...

Theatre Now Review: A Deal

Mark's Score: 3 Stars A Deal has been supported by the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies at The University of Sydney. Zhu Yi is...

Theatre Now Sydney Review: 3 Weeks in Spring

Mark's Score: 3.5 Stars In recent years there has been a renaissance in musicals centring on Australian stories. Those of us who champion music theatre...

Theatre Now Sydney Review: Table

Mark's Score: 5 Stars I would not normally sit in the first rows of any theatre, there is something in the safety of being among...

Mark Nagle Rounds Up HIs Sydney Cabaret Festival Experience

The 2019 inaugural Sydney Cabaret Festival has packed up its chandeliers and put away the sequined outfits with the promise of doing it all...

Theatre Now Sydney Review: Van de Maar Papers

Mark's Score 3 stars Van de Maar Papers is a highly seductive title for a play so I was full of anticipation for a work...

Theatre Now Sydney Review: Relative Merits

Mark's Score: 4 stars It is over 25 years since Relative Merits first played at The Stables Theatre. This is its fourth revival and it...
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