Melbourne Reviews
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- Liza Dezfouli
The play creates with authenticity and verve the fraught hyper-reality of the world of the foreign correspondent, often in peril, living an unholy and thrilling existence surrounded by horror, and all the while documenting it.
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- Vito Mattarelli
This year is a landmark year for the music theatre world's greatest living composer, Stephen Sondheim. As he turns 80 years old, companies aound the globe are paying tribute with revivals of some of his much-loved creations.
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- Liza Dezfouli
The City is one of the most inspiring and unconventional works I’ve seen in a while, mesmerizing all the way through.
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- Simonne Michelle-Wells
There is much to like about this tightly directed production. It’s part walking history tour of the beautiful and intriguing Abbotsford convent, part physical theatre, part puppet theatre, and more.
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- Bron Batten
A sweet and at times melancholy tribute to hope, love, and laying your heart on the line.
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- Dione Joseph
Yohangza Theatre Company’s version serves up a favourite classic with a decidedly Korean flavour.
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- Joe Lusk
Looking around Hollywood, at comedies past and present, it’s impossible to ignore the influence of the Jewish community on what we consider to be amusing in the modern Western world.
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