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- Chenoeh Miller
For one night only, Canberra Theatre Centre brought the beloved queer history podcast Queers Past onto the stage as part of this year’s SpringOUT Festival.
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- Chenoeh Miller
Elizabeth Cameron Dalman enters in sweeping red chiffon to open the space. It immediately feels ceremonial, generous, and charged with the weight of six decades in dance.
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- Adrienne Gross
Biology is the comedy chemistry in The Stevenson Experience. Aussie identical twins Benjamin and James Stevenson sass and banter their show into an ideal blend of structured storyline mixed with natural improvisation.
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- Trevar Alan Chilver
The audience gasps as their eyes react to the onslaught and giggle a little while they wait for something to happen.
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- Adrienne Gross
The Weight of Light is a richly crafted local production with universal themes of grief, despair, hope and fear. A range of original songs with intense vocals explain the journey of a soldier’s return home to confront his past and future.
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- Valerie Lillington
The Q Theatre in Queanbeyan, with its wide proscenium, compact seating and good sound quality, was home to one of Broadway's most popular musicals, Guys and Dolls.
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- Valerie Lillington
With a title like that, you would expect exactly what the audience saw, heard and so obviously enjoyed from the six performers in this lively, humorous and beautiful show.
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