Sydney Reviews

Details: Jodi McAlister; 22 July 2011

The Farnsworth Invention may not be a tour de force of playwriting, but it is most certainly a tour de force of storytelling.

Details: Rose Hodson; 17 July 2011

If you’re looking to be stimulated, entertained, or even to just relax for an evening and forget the world that lines five days of your week then I can’t advise Northanger Abbey strongly enough.

Details: Penny Spirou; 14 July 2011

Tick, Tick...Boom! | Newline Productions

The year is 1990 and this is the story of Jon, a composer on the brink of turning the big 3-0. He lives in New York City and waits tables in between writing the ‘Great American Musical’.

Details: Jodi McAlister; 14 July 2011

It is clever, affecting, sometimes humorous and ultimately heartbreaking. K.I.J.E. is well-written, well-directed, well-acted and well worth seeing.

Details: Ashley Walker; 06 July 2011

Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness | Sydney Theatre Company and La Boite

There are many belly laughs to be had as this rollicking script sweeps you along. The one liners are superb.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 25 June 2011

Hairspray, in all its incarnations, is an atypical concoction: a seemingly lightweight, energetically camp celebration of retro-kitsch fashion and music surrounding an earnest anti-racism message integral to its Baltimore roots.

Details: Ashley Walker; 24 June 2011

In Terminus, the focus is on the power of storytelling and the richness of the English language.

Details: Helen Barry; 19 June 2011

It’s an incisive exploration of what happens when two unstable personalities, each just holding it together on their own combine; what happens when Nitro meets Glycerine or when one piranha meets his flesh-eating soulmate.

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