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The Melbourne season of In The Heights is a joyful night at the theatre; it will make you want to learn Spanish and start ...
The two leads, Ian Stenlake as Richard Hannay and Lisa McCune as Mary and Margaret are very good, with accomplished comic acumen, but it is the comedic virtuosity of The Umbilical Brothers, David ...
Created from Robert Brown’s extensive catalogue of songs written for other musicals and events, Songs for a New World has no direct throughline but still appears as a strongly connected piece. Each ...
Heather Bloom 09 August 2025 Created from Robert Brown’s extensive catalogue of songs written for other musicals and events, Songs for a New World has no direct throughline but still appears as a ...
After the interval we had the rare experience of hearing the Requiem by Michael Haydn, Joseph Haydn’s younger brother. It was ...
Nearly forty years on, David Williamson’s Emerald City is possibly more pertinent, poignant and passionate, the skewering satire and sparkling dialogue finding solid contemporary footing in Mark ...
Australia's online home for performing artsWhat is Echo? Is it a metaphor for our existence, the endless bounce of noise that reverberates around the world in a quieter and quieter hum but can never ...
Opening night was a beautiful, mild early autumnal evening. Sitting in the bleachers the audience looks at the enormous, raked stage that has been erected on pylons in Sydney Harbour, ready for the ...
At the forty minute mark, Lauren, the youngest character in Circle Mirror Transformation says something akin to “when are we going to start acting?” At the sixty minute mark, the same character asks ...
It’s sex, lies and vertical blinds in Sport for Jove’s production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal at the Old Fitz. Like Pinter’s earlier masterpiece, The Caretaker, Betrayal has three characters, this ...
Jonathan Biggins has been delivering a version of Paul Keating for over twenty years, harking back to his days with the long running success of the Wharf Revue under the auspices of Sydney Theatre ...
If you weren’t raised by a Barbra Streisand fan, you may have stumbled across this multi-talented performer’s work through her Hollywood films. For singer Rachael Grace, a childhood viewing of Funny ...