Red Stitch’s Hellbent is an adaptation of the seventeenth century play The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster. It’s a revenge tragedy, a hysterical melodrama of Shakespearean proportions served up with an extra dollop of nastiness and it’s wonderful. Most read Sydney reviews
A Mirror | Belvoir
Steeped in meta-theatricality, A Mirror prompts us to reflect on the status of storytelling, of its place in creating a culture, its manipulation into myth, its power to prick and to prod.
Amplified: The Exquisite Rock and Rage of Chrissy Amphlett | Belvoir
Amped up and ramped up, harness Harbridge’s energy here and it could power metropolitan Sydney.
Stage Kiss | New Theatre
There’s a palpable playfulness to these performances, disciplined, drilled and delightful. There’s fire, bite and fun and lots of kissing.
Simone Young conducts Mahler’s Song of the Earth | Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Young, O’Neill, Ionis, and indeed every member of the orchestra understood how to let this music crack open the psyche, yet hold us there in ways that can transfigure our souls.
As You Like It | Fingerless Theatre
Wit and beauty, pride and sorrow, self disgust and merriment
Now playing Sydney
As befitting a work honouring the inventor of the printing press, Gutenberg! The Musical! is enamoured of words, drunk on words, intoxicated with text, mad for the metaphor, passionate for the pun.
The accent is on language in English, Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize winning play being presented by Outhouse Theatre.