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- Jack Teiwes
Although somehow just a whisker off being perfect, Williams’ new production of The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui is a theatrical powerhouse, with bold stagecraft and an exciting cast all clustered around a stunning central performance.
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- Richard Cotter
Lachlan Philpott's lauded play is decidedly lyrical, but with the absence of action becomes homiletic, a little too much tell and not enough show.
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- Richard Cotter
A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer is gosh factor cathartic theatre with a reach that extends our gasp.
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- Dennis Clements
Beautifully performed, and indisputably watchable – but one that reveals little of Callas beyond the self-absorbed diva breaking others to palliate the pain of a ruined voice and doomed affairs of the heart.
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- Richard Cotter
In The Heights consistently hits the highs in an exhilarating musical with surprising emotional depth.
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- Jack Teiwes
At school they might just be girls, but here they are a squad, a pack. Here they are the Wolves.
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- Emily Shaddick
The Book of Mormon is beyond exceptional. It is worth every star, every word of praise and every award that it has won.
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- Richard Cotter
Shakespeare not stirred. This is the cockeyed cocktail served by Bell Shakespeare’s production of Antony & Cleopatra.
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