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- Lee Bemrose
Basically, believe the hype and get a ticket, if the season has not already sold out.
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- Nikki Spunde
Scarborough is to date the second stage offering from The Honeytrap and it shows the fledgeling company’s commitment to delivering challenging theatre.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Set in the conflict in the Balkans, About Tommy revolves around the erosion of a young man's sense of right and wrong faced with danger and hypocrisy.
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- Darryl Emmerson
The entire program, balanced, varied and engrossing, was a further discovery for me of Hanson’s range and ambitions.
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- Heather Bloom
Something exciting is happening at Theatre Works in St Kilda. The venue that premiered the incredible musical Flowerchildren in 2012 has another hit on its hands.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
Performing in English, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese – his gorgeous voice hit like a tsunami, and embraced like expensive silk.
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- Nikki Spunde
The high points are good enough and frequent enough to make it easy to gloss over the flat patches, though, and the show is overall very entertaining.
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