
As soon as Tina Benko seizes the microphone to announce, ‘My name is Desdemona,’ she has us by the throat.

Kit Brookman’s new play, A Rabbit for Kim Jong-Il, appears to be a charming, absurdist work about the covert appropriation of a colony of gigantic German rabbits by a North Korean emissary. But it is actually based on a bizarre, but true story.

Opera Van Diemensland's recent production of Puccini's masterpiece Tosca at the Independent Theatre under the direction of Martin Buckingham was a courageous and largely successful offering of a great work.

Peeping Tom have created an engaging work, with a mix of humour, violence, whimsy and menace.

Admitting to shedding a tear over disco is not something that I ever thought I would do, however at last Thursday's performance of Velvet at the Sydney Opera House, this is exactly what happened.

In the promo blurb for Limbo is the cheeky line, 'The show so hot, Madonna came twice.' To whoever came up with that line, chapeau.