Sydney Reviews

Details: Jack Teiwes; 15 February 2010

Joanna Murray-Smith’s play is pithy, unpredictable, and ultimately quite moving.

Details: Laurel Green; 15 February 2010

The ‘biggest little play festival in the world’, Short + Sweet showcases the talent of hundreds of directors, playwrights and actors each year – in only 10 minutes or less.

Details: Vito Mattarelli; 15 February 2010

The Fabulous Frances Faye in Australia | Nick Christo

The show is sharp and focused, and at an hour in length, the perfect cabaret experience.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 10 February 2010

Spring Awakening | Sydney Theatre Company

It's hard to separate which is the triumphant hero of this musical: story, or score? Of course, in the best musicals, the two are synergistic and inseparable, and this is the case here.

Details: Laurel Green; 10 February 2010

The Lady Grey refuses to leave the spectator in the dark and instead captures our attention with hypothetical questions and direct-address.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 04 February 2010

This would have to be one of the more peculiar plays I’ve seen in recent times – an odd, awkward mishmash of styles and ideas that never seem to really coalesce and yet it undeniably has a certain flair and style, an engaging energy.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 28 January 2010

They're such ripper riffers, there isn't much need for anything else. Yet there's more besides, including an engaging sense of self-deprecating humour, not necessarily always found in egomaniacal rockstars.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 10 January 2010

And you thought you had to go to Mardi Gras (Rio, not Sydney) to get the full monty, 'wake up and smell the coffee' carnivale! Uh-uh. A tight-as-a-drum 75 minutes in the concert hall of our bathroom-tiled opera house will do it.

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