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“Lady Tabouli” Review: A Hilarious Comedy About Suffocating Expectations

Posted by Cherine Fahd | 3rd Feb 2020 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Age

Review: Lady Tabouli, directed by Dino Dimitriadis, National Theatre of Parramatta for Sydney...

“Black Drop Effect:” Indigenous Voices Offering New Historical Perspective

Posted by Amanda Harris | 29th Jan 2020 | Australia, Review, Sydney

Review: Black Drop Effect, directed by Felix Cross for Sydney Festival Aboriginal and Torres...

“The White Album:” Finding Community and Solidarity in Joan Didion’s Play Adaptation

Posted by Karen Cummings | 29th Jan 2020 | Australia, Review, Sydney

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. – Joan Didion, The White Album Theatre can be many...

ReMOTE: Hip-Hop Dance Meets Gaming Technology at the 2019 Kuandu Arts Festival

Posted by Shiya Lu | 26th Sep 2019 | Festivals, News, Sydney, Taiwan, Transmedia

Returning to Taiwan for the first time since 2016, Australian-based Shaun Parker & Company is...

Julia Leigh Continues to Explore Definitions of Womanhood in New Adaptation of Her Memoir

Posted by Camilla Nelson | 22nd Sep 2019 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Gender

Review: Avalanche: A Love Story, directed by Anne-Louise Sarks, Sydney Theatre Company Maxine...

Maxine Peake Brings Warmth and Likability to Raw, Bitter Pain in a Candid Tale of IVF Failure

Posted by Camilla Nelson | 10th Sep 2019 | Australia, Review, Sydney

Review: Avalanche: A Love Story, directed by Anne-Louise Sarks, Sydney Theatre Company. Maxine...

“Mary, Queen Of Scots” Is Newly Relevant In The Age Of #MeToo

Posted by Rosalind Smith | 9th Mar 2019 | Australia, Essay, Sydney, Theatre and Gender

The dramatic life of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots is a hot topic in popular culture. Josie Rourke’s...

“How To Rule The World” Is A Biting And Urgent Satire Of Australian Politics–That Feels All Too Real

Posted by Leigh Boucher | 5th Mar 2019 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Politics

How To Rule The World is Indigenous playwright Nakkiah Lui’s critical riposte to the intellectual...

“Beware Of Pity” Is Beautiful To Watch, But Clashes With Modern Sensibilities

Posted by Caroline Wake | 11th Feb 2019 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Disability

Review: Beware Of Pity, Sydney Festival 2019 Performances in the Roslyn Packer Theatre typically...

Decoding The Music Masterpieces: Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck,” An Apocalyptic Descent Into Madness

Posted by Michael Ewans | 9th Feb 2019 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Opera

Alban Berg’s Wozzeck is arguably the most important opera composed in the first half of the 20th...

“One Infinity” Explores Tension and Connection Between China and the West

Posted by Kiu-wai Chu | 9th Feb 2019 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Dance

In an age of growing mistrust, the Chinese-Australian artistic collaboration One...

Interview with Festival Director Sarah Purdue: Short + Sweet Sydney Launches 18th Season

Posted by Shiya Lu | 7th Feb 2019 | Australia, Festivals, Interview, Sydney, Theatre and Art

The biggest little theatre festival in the world is all grown up! The popular staple of the Sydney...

Dancenorth’s “Dust” Is Ambitious Theatre In An Age Of Uncertainty

Posted by Justine Shih Pearson | 30th Jan 2019 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Sydney

What kind of world are we leaving for our children? So goes our conversation everywhere these...

A New Take On “An Enemy Of The People” Fizzes With Contemporary Relevance

Posted by Huw Griffiths | 5th Nov 2018 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Sydney

The fitness of Henrik Ibsen’s plays to address the political questions of our modern lives renews...

“The Town Hall Affair” Brings Germaine Greer’s 1970s Feminist Debate Roaring Into The Present

Posted by Bryoni Trezise | 28th Jan 2018 | Australia, New York, Sydney, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

The moment was 1971, Labour Day’s eve. The context: a biting critique of feminism published by...

Sydney Festival Review: Beckett’s “All That Fall”

Posted by Anthony Uhlmann | 27th Sep 2017 | Australia, Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Sydney

In the program notes to Pan Pan Theatre’s outstanding production of All That Fall at the Sydney...

Vivacious and Unapologetic, “The Rover’s” 17th-century Feminism is Painfully Pertinent

Posted by Claire Hansen | 9th Jul 2017 | Australia, Sydney, Theatre and Gender

The Rover, now on at Belvoir Theatre in Sydney, starts unexpectedly, with long-dead 17th-century...

“Black Is The New White” Gives The Comedy Of Manners An Irreverent Makeover

Posted by Huw Griffiths | 14th May 2017 | Australia, Sydney

Black is the New White is Nakkiah Lui’s latest play, following last year’s well-received Kill the...

Who Was Mary? And How Plausible is Colm Tóibín’s Reconstruction of Her?

Posted by Joel Hodge | 31st Jan 2017 | Australia, Essay, Ireland, Sydney

Colm Tóibín’s play and the Booker-nominated novella The Testament of Mary aims to “demythologise”...

“Seventeen” at Belvoir – A Brilliant Theatrical Event

Posted by Huw Griffiths | 22nd Aug 2016 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Age

Our experience of plays is always profoundly affected by how they end: comedy or tragedy, death or...

Sydney

“Lady Tabouli” Review: A Hilarious Comedy About Suffocating Expectations

“Black Drop Effect:” Indigenous Voices Offering New Historical Perspective

“The White Album:” Finding Community and Solidarity in Joan Didion’s Play Adaptation

ReMOTE: Hip-Hop Dance Meets Gaming Technology at the 2019 Kuandu Arts Festival

Julia Leigh Continues to Explore Definitions of Womanhood in New Adaptation of Her Memoir

Maxine Peake Brings Warmth and Likability to Raw, Bitter Pain in a Candid Tale of IVF Failure

“Mary, Queen Of Scots” Is Newly Relevant In The Age Of #MeToo

“How To Rule The World” Is A Biting And Urgent Satire Of Australian Politics–That Feels All Too Real

“Beware Of Pity” Is Beautiful To Watch, But Clashes With Modern Sensibilities

Decoding The Music Masterpieces: Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck,” An Apocalyptic Descent Into Madness

“One Infinity” Explores Tension and Connection Between China and the West

Interview with Festival Director Sarah Purdue: Short + Sweet Sydney Launches 18th Season

Dancenorth’s “Dust” Is Ambitious Theatre In An Age Of Uncertainty

A New Take On “An Enemy Of The People” Fizzes With Contemporary Relevance

“The Town Hall Affair” Brings Germaine Greer’s 1970s Feminist Debate Roaring Into The Present

Sydney Festival Review: Beckett’s “All That Fall”

Vivacious and Unapologetic, “The Rover’s” 17th-century Feminism is Painfully Pertinent

“Black Is The New White” Gives The Comedy Of Manners An Irreverent Makeover

Who Was Mary? And How Plausible is Colm Tóibín’s Reconstruction of Her?

“Seventeen” at Belvoir – A Brilliant Theatrical Event

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