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.
A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer is gosh factor cathartic theatre with a reach that extends our gasp.
Beautifully performed, and indisputably watchable – but one that reveals little of Callas beyond the self-absorbed diva breaking others to palliate the pain of a ruined voice and doomed affairs of the heart.
In The Heights consistently hits the highs in an exhilarating musical with surprising emotional depth.
From the glamour of 1979's Scheherazade, in which dancers dressed in glittering gold Akira Isogawa designed skirts are accompanied by soaring operatic vocals, to the boisterous playfulness of Ellipse (2002), with its nod to Western hoe-down dancing, Murphy's startling range is on display.
At school they might just be girls, but here they are a squad, a pack. Here they are the Wolves.