Sydney Reviews

Details: Helen Barry; 19 January 2008

Well it’s time once again for the biggest little play festival in the world, Short+Sweet as it bursts onto the Sydney theatre scene for it’s seventh year

Details: Helen Barry; 19 January 2008

Together these two plays make a delightful double bill, which would make a fun girl’s night out, but an uncomfortable choice for a first date.

Details: Augusta Supple; 05 January 2008

This is a story of Giant ambitious proportions, of wild imagination, geographic & scientific abandonment and rollicking audience participation.

Details: Rebecca Whitton; 23 December 2007

Don’t be put off by the subject matter of child abuse in David Harrower’s Blackbird. Moral sensitivities aside, this Laurence Olivier Award winning play is intriguing and challenging

Details: Helen Barry; 20 December 2007

McDonald and Szeps are brilliant as they break through the wall of the audience’s ‘Mother and Son’ baggage to bring to life two very different and endearing characters.

Details: James Waites; 15 December 2007

Anyway which way you look at it, Billy Elliot the Musical is as timely as it is well made.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 12 December 2007

Chopper's F*ckin Chrismas Bingo | Laughing Stock Productions

Spun off one of the character’s earliest sketches in which Chopper incongruously hosts a bingo night, this is a Yuletide show with a difference.

Details: Eliza Eggler; 08 December 2007

Religious persecution, military domination and the clash of cultures are themes that resonate strongly today

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