The musical Gypsy, is a near perfect show, exquisitely crafted by a collection of geniuses of the music theatre genre.
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This new production of The Wizard of Oz by Andrew Lloyd Webber retains all of the classic elements that anyone familiar with the 1939 film would hope to see, while subtly updating the story for a more contemporary audience and cleverly incorporating some visual wizardry of it's own.
George Frederic Handel’s Dixit Dominus is a challenge for any choir and orchestra, and when set next to Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria, together they make a splendid program.
“This is not a story of reconciliation” but rather a pedal-to-the-metal indigenous revenge fantasy, presented as a giddy, gaudy and glorious pastiche of vigilante-superhero narratives and American Blaxploitation cinema.
Yes, it’s a good romp with lots of laughs, lovely music well sung and very good performances by all.
This is an emotional play with not too many dry eyes at times, but if a play and its performers can move you, make you laugh, make you cry, make you think, then a good job has been done.
Capturing both the careworn oppression and the wry impishness of her former self beginning to burst back up to the surface, Millerchip is a delight and a powerhouse, carrying the show almost effortlessly on her shoulders.
An extraordinary new play which takes us on a family saga across three generations of Pyrmont residents, encompassing the history of Sydney’s perpetual gentrification.
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Terrestrial | State Theatre Company South Australia
Terrestrial’s author (Fleur Kilpatrick) says in the programme notes that she dedicated her play to lonely girls, bored boys, to quiet towns and “to a landscape that looks like Mars”. She adds ”landscape informs how our trauma, confusion, illness or fear manifests itself”. It does in this play.
Hungry Ghosts | Melbourne Theatre Company
Described as a post traumatic play, Hungary Ghosts is both complex and challenging. While conscious in its use of multiple characters and threads, commentary on national themes does give echo to a central, more personal narrative around culture, loss, belonging, patriotism and identity.
Almost Face To Face | Stephen House
It's difficult to determine who the real star is in this piece; the exquisite writing, or the equally perfect performance. That both are the work of the same person... truly impressive stuff.
Les Misérables | The South Coast Choral and Arts Society
This is an emotional play with not too many dry eyes at times, but if a play and its performers can move you, make you laugh, make you cry, make you think, then a good job has been done.
Good Cook. Friendly. Clean. | Griffin Theatre Company
It might go down a treat as a Nanny's business card, but it seems to have little currency for Tara Marice's character, Sandra in Brooke Robinson's Good Cook. Friendly. Clean.
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Launch of unique archive of scenic designs
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