Sydney Reviews

Details: Helen Barry; 07 September 2009

A Streetcar Named Desire is without a doubt the best production that I’ve seen all year, and theatregoers should beg borrow or steal their way into it.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 04 September 2009

A Woman in Berlin | Splinter Theatre Company

This is the sort of independent theatre that we need. A tight one-hander telling a poignant story in an intimate, largely restrained fashion and yet with a keen awareness of the theatrical.

Details: jane barton; 03 September 2009

Neil Armfield and David Hare have a creative simpatico. Together they create riveting work which illustrates not only the themes at hand but even more broadly, why theatre is a unique and powerful medium.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 02 September 2009

Folds might've been 'raised up' in the 'milds' of North Carolina and spent a couple of years in Adelaide, but it hasn't tamed his unruly pianistic nature.

Details: Rachel Orzech; 29 August 2009

Eva Yerbabuena’s flamenco is the real thing: pure, fierce dance with only music as adornment.

Details: Augusta Supple; 27 August 2009

The Lonesome West | Arts Asia Pacific & B Sharp

At the heart of the piece is a comment about consumer society wherein we care more for belongings - money, a stove, a packet of chips - than for our neighbours, school friends and even family.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 24 August 2009

Bad Jazz | Darlinghurst Theatre & square the circle

An acerbic comedy taking aim at the pretensions and dysfunctions of those who create theatre, Bad Jazz is a play that puts interesting ideas out there but ultimately has trouble getting much across.

Details: Ashley Walker; 23 August 2009

In the boardroom-centred world of Under Ice there is no love, only productivity.

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