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Stand-Up Review: Laughs Outta Lockdown Festival: Amelia Navascues and Bea Barbeau-Scurla

"this formidable duo is bursting forth from the confines of Sydney’s stay-at-home orders with a wealth of new material, making for a memorable hour...

Australian premiere of Marc Brew and Rawcus Ensemble new collaboration

Press Release: “Rawcus is world class theatre, sumptuously imagined, visually stunning and profoundly moving.” - The Age Internationally renowned UK-based choreographer Marc Brew teams up with the inimitable Rawcus...

Theatre Now Review: The Cherry Orchard

"What immediately strikes you as missing is a sense of place.""there is far too much playing for laughs, and it can take centre stage...

Theatre Now Review: Limits

"Once again the team at The Flying Nun prove themselves to be canny programmers – finding the new, the best and the brightest (and...

Theatre Now Review: SandSong: Stories from the Great Sandy Desert

"Bangarra’s dancers weave through this treacherous timescape with impressive athleticism, strength and grace, but also captivating spirituality""SandSong is a commanding and confronting piece of...

Theatre Now Review: Intact

"Hadley’s performance in the role on this night successfully traversed the outward feelings of aggression and passion with the devastating realisation of the soldier’s...

Theatre Now Review: Next Chapters

"An engaging performance combining Legs on the Wall and the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra"...breathtaking and assists the climax of the music composition "...

Theatre Now Review: A Passage To India

"There is much to chew on for an audience. Nagle’s treatment of the material foregrounds the Indian occupation experience, creating atmosphere and setting without...

Theatre Now Review: Two Sisters

Sibling relationships come into being before friendships and romance and usually outlive our parents. They are often the longest lasting of our lives. They...

Theatre Now Review: Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert: The Musical

"For it is a celebration and it is immense fun. We begin with a glitter bomb and end with one and in between we...

A Chat About: Borderless With Peter-William Jamieson

Let's get straight to it, what is Borderless about? "In essence it’s a story about a family, in particular 2 step-brothers who come...

Theatre Now Review: Claudel

"Dancer/choreographer Meryl Tankard’s work and dancers are the particular bodies which glitter most in Wendy Beckett’s Claudel" - Kate Stratford 4/5 bronze sculptures In the...

Belvoir Announces 2021 Program Part Two

Press Release: Belvoir is pleased to announce the exciting array of shows making up the second part of their 2021 season. Part two of the 2021...

On The Screen Review: Supanova

"Harry McQueen has written and directed a beautifully tragic film. Dick Pope’s cinematography of crisp English countrysides is breath taking, as are many of...

A View From The Stalls: La Traviata

If you had told me a year ago that I would be standing by the harbour on a clear-skied evening, waiting to watch an...

Theatre Now Review: Charlie and the War against the Grannies

"It is a compelling and bittersweet humorous pretence, especially for all of the parents in the audience." "Warhurst and Brough composed the music together...

Theatre Now Review: Half Time

"A terrific theme, just too late in the unfolding. Structurally, the book spends too much time in exposition and not enough on the journey"...

Theatre Now Review: Pete The Sheep

"As you would expect, there are plenty jokes aimed squarely at the parents in the room. In fact the show is so well balanced...

Darlinghurst Theatre Gets Late Night Reuben Kaye Show.

Press Release: Darlinghurst Theatre Company is thrilled to announce that Sydney audiences will finally have the chance to experience late night done right, when Reuben...

Theatre Now Review: You’re Not Special

"..the play offers an approach which is both innovative and considered. And director Samantha Young’s sure hand guides the play through this process....The three...

Theatre Now Review: Wild Thing

"Kim Hardwick’s direction of this tale of age and the right to dignity is energetic and pushes the play through some of its weaker...

Theatre Now Review: My Brilliant Career

"My Brilliant Career is the kind of mainstage show we probably need right now. While in many ways a sad, angry work, there is...

Theatre Now Review: Young Frankenstein

"This show is always surprising. And that is saying something because the plot is so well known...The casting and performances – especially from Matthew...

Live and Interactive Online Experience. Six Contestants, Six Countries.. You Decide.

Press Release: “You will be judge and executioner, but when an evil virus infiltrates the proceedings, how far will you go?”   Redemption Room is a new...

Theatre Now Review: Jekyll & Hyde

"There is much that is good; particularly the musical and vocal work. All credit to the Musical Director, Steve Dula who has not only...