Sydney Festival Review: Beckett’s “All That Fall”
In the program notes to Pan Pan Theatre’s outstanding production of All That Fall at the Sydney...
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Patricia Cornelius’ “Big Heart” Exposes Hypocrisy In Tale Of Multicultural Adoption
Playwright Patricia Cornelius is known for populating the stage with complex, working-class,...
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“Laser Beak Man” Busts The Fourth Wall And Blows Minds With Superheroic Puppetry
Laser Beak Man, the madcap superhero creation of artist Tim Sharp, who has autism, flew into La...
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From Elvis to Cobain, “The Sound of Falling Stars” Revives Those Dead Before Their Time
What unites Sid Vicious and Ricky Nelson, Elvis, and Kurt Cobain, is not just that they were...
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Melbourne’s La Mama Demonstrates The Value of Independent Theatre
This year Melbourne’s La Mama Theatre celebrates its 50th year of operation. In an interview for...
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50 Years of Melbourne’s La Mama Theatre
When Betty Burstall returned to Australia in 1967 after two years in New York with her husband,...
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Vivacious and Unapologetic, “The Rover’s” 17th-century Feminism is Painfully Pertinent
The Rover, now on at Belvoir Theatre in Sydney, starts unexpectedly, with long-dead 17th-century...
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Why International Bias Has Caused Few Opportunities For Australian Musical Theatre Creators And Performers
Last week’s nominations for the Helpmann Awards, which recognize the performing arts in Australia,...
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‘Who Knew the World Could be so Awful’: Alice Birch’s Apocalyptic Feminist Theatre
Alice Birch’s production, Revolt. She said. Revolt again., currently on at Melbourne’s Malthouse...
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Boylesque Redefines Burlesque and Masculinity
Burlesque is an art form that has polarized Western society for centuries. In his 1991 publication...
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“Only Heaven Knows” Brings 1940s Queer Sydney Roaring Back to Life
Only Heaven Knows, a musical about a young Melbourne man who discovers the queer delights of...
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“The Book of Exodus – Part I” at Theatre Works
Retelling the Biblical Book of Exodus through the eyes of children The biblical Book of Exodus...
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“Mr Burns”: Post-Apocalyptic Simpsons Musical Shows Theatre’s Future Is Dazzling
There has been a nuclear event. The grid is down. The radio is out. Most are dead, and those who...
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“Black Is The New White” Gives The Comedy Of Manners An Irreverent Makeover
Black is the New White is Nakkiah Lui’s latest play, following last year’s well-received Kill the...
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Lies, Monsters and Kate Mulvany’s Intensely Human Portrayal of Richard III
As we all know, the first line of Shakespeare’s Richard 3 reads, “Now is the winter of our...
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The Great Australian Plays: Sex, Poetry and “The Chapel Perilous”
When she died in 2002, The Age hailed Dorothy Hewett as “the grande dame of Australian literature”...
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Good Friday Essay: Passion Plays and The Ethics of Spectacular Violence
In 1985 Filipino carpenter Ruben Enaje fell three storeys and remarkably, survived. To give thanks...
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#Not Pho Your Entertainment
Over the past year and a half, May Tran (writer, student and professional procrastinator of...
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The Great Australian Plays: “The Front Room Boys” and New Wave Theatre
“Fucken boong”. With these words Australian theatre entered the swinging sixties – eight years...
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“The Secret River”: Colonial Oppression on Australian Stages
One way of looking at a story is as a mental suitcase that brings together a bunch of actions that...
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