Sydney Reviews

Details: Sonia Allan; 29 July 2008

This latest offering from ATYP, explores the idea of conflict in its many forms, from school bullies, to yammering neighbours, to young men at war.

Details: Sonia Allan; 29 July 2008

This play recounts true events of Australia’s first white theatre performance in 1789, complete with convicts in chains and floggings at dawn.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 28 July 2008

As delicate, nuanced and delectable a singer as Kristin Berardi is, it's her compositions that really astonish

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 26 July 2008

Reefer Madness, as you might guess, is a musical that focuses in on the depravities inevitably ensuing from any contact with the dreaded weed.

Details: Ashley Walker; 26 July 2008

When a bloke in a tuxedo with finger-in-light-socket hair directs you to someone else’s seat, you know you’re in the Big Top.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 24 July 2008

The Age of Consent | Bareboards Productions

I consented to attend this play. And review it. But I didn't really consent, in any way beyond the perfunctory, to the wordy, pretentious, too-clever-by-half barrage with which it assaulted me.

Details: Leonie Tillman; 24 July 2008

John Leary is joined each night by one of Sydney's leading actors like Claudia Karvan, Richard Roxburgh or Jacki Weaver for an experience in creating the impossible with An Oak Tree.

Details: Ashley Walker; 24 July 2008

Scorched is what you get when theatre makers are prepared to experiment with all areas of their craft.

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