Sydney Reviews

Details: Jack Teiwes; 05 November 2010

Not Quite Out of the Woods | The Wharf Revue

The cast and co-creators are uniformly uproarious, with every sketch taking gleeful aim at the various foibles and follies of their targets, each playing many different parts.

Details: Nicholas Routley; 01 November 2010

The Importance of Being Earnest | Darlinghurst Theatre Company

The performance of this play by the Darlinghurst Theatre Company at their own venue, which is so intimate that it is smaller than some of the rooms in which one could imagine the play being set, stuck very faithfully to its famous and outrageous text.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 29 October 2010

While there's certainly light and shade in their selections, the repertoire almost doesn't matter: if they were to improvise on Baa-Baa Black Sheep I'm confident it would still be consummate.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 26 October 2010

The Chronic Ills of Robert Zimmerman: AKA Bob Dylan (A Lie)

The production isn't utterly flawless, but it's only a gnat's nut away. It takes a while for Bob (Matt Ralph) to settle into his accent but, hey, Bob is almost a dialect unto himself.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 23 October 2010

Thrillingly impressive, flawed in places yet unquestionably epic. These are but a few of the ways you could describe Ben-Hur: The Stadium Spectacular, but the most appropriate term is right there in the title, this show is spectacular.

Details: Ashley Walker; 22 October 2010

The Animals and Children Took to the Streets | 1927

Something has happened to the delinquent children of Red Herring Street. They have been kidnapped, fed little green pills and turned into zombies within a week.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 20 October 2010

Any Renaissance Players concert is enriching and rewarding, in a multiplicity of ways.

Details: Helen Barry; 04 October 2010

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes, if I’m very, very lucky, a production or a performer comes along that stops me in my tracks – one that’s so undeniably good that I’m literally lost for words.