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“Macbeth (An Undoing)”: A New Take That Aims To Reimagine Lady Macbeth’s Path – But Ultimately Leaves You Guessing

Posted by Kate Hunter | 24th Jul 2024 | Adaptation, Australia, Review

What if significant portions of William Shakespeare’s text for Macbeth had been lost, leading to a...

“Dorian the Musical:” This Rock Adaptation Of Oscar Wilde’s Classic Missteps At Every Turn

Posted by Gill Foster | 19th Jul 2024 | Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom

In the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Oscar Wilde wrote: “There is no such thing as...

Sydney Theatre Company’s “Dracula”: A Virtuosic Performance, Sexy Staging, And A Queer Rewriting

Posted by Huw Griffiths | 16th Jul 2024 | Adaptation, Australia, Review

The figure of Dracula has always lived somewhere between the written word, screen projections and...

New Play “American Signs” Looks At The Nefarious World Of Consultancies – But Leaves Australia Off The Hook

Posted by Alana Lentin | 3rd Jul 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Anchuli Felicia King’s new one-performer piece, American Signs, written for the talented Catherine...

“Homo Pentecostus:” On Queer Intimacies, Religion, Ancestry And The Human Need For Connection

Posted by Jonathan Graffam-O’Meara | 5th Jun 2024 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Religion

Music pumps; lights pulsate; two sweaty bodies sway together, touching, breathing in each other’s...

Back to Back’s “Multiple Bad Things” takes a sophisticated look at the moral ambiguities of today’s ‘culture wars’

Posted by Sarah Austin | 1st Jun 2024 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Disability

Back to Back Theatre is an internationally lauded ensemble of collaborators based in Geelong. With...

“Symphonie Of The Bicycle:” On The Desire To Be Great, And The Desire To Live A Life With Great Meaning

Posted by Catherine Campbell | 22nd May 2024 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics

Symphonie of the Bicycle is a tour de force. Actor and writer Hew Parham takes the audience...

A Story Of Trauma, Hope And Regaining Control, “Nayika: A Dancing Girl” Is Soul-Stirring Dance Theatre

Posted by Vanita Yadav | 15th May 2024 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Dance

The complex and grappling issue of violence against women takes centre stage in the soul-stirring...

I Wholeheartedly Recommend “The President:” A Brilliant Revival Of A Play Of Decay, Terror And Revulsion

Posted by Alexander Howard | 30th Apr 2024 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics

Decay, terror, revulsion. These are three of the central themes of Thomas Bernhard’s rarely...

New Play “The Exact Dimensions of Hell” Explores The Chaos And Contradiction Of Teenage Girlhood – And Witchcraft

Posted by Sarah Austin | 27th Apr 2024 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender

The relationship between witchcraft and teenage girls has been the subject of many books, films...

‘Strong Theatre With Unwavering Precision’: Into The Shimmering World Asks Us What Does It Mean To Be Good?

Posted by Ian Maxwell | 16th Apr 2024 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender

Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World is an unforgiving and, frankly, bleak meditation on what...

Love, Loss And Tears – But Also Laughter: Belvoir’s Compelling And Skilful Staging Of “Holding The Man”

Posted by Huw Griffiths | 28th Mar 2024 | Australia, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review

Walking through Chippendale on my way to Sydney’s Belvoir Street Theatre, where this production of...

Respect And Disrespect Clash Throughout 37 – A Brilliant New Play Exploring Australian Rules Football

Posted by Julie Andrews | 23rd Mar 2024 | Australia, Documentary Theatre, Review

Guernsey number 37 belonged to Aboriginal star football player Adam Goodes when he played for...

Sydney Festival Review: Circa’s “Humans 2.0” is a Visceral Delight

Posted by Kate Maguire-Rosier | 2nd Feb 2021 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Sydney, Sydney Theatre Festival 2021

Review: Humans 2.0, directed by Yaron Lifschitz, Circa at Sydney Festival The black circular stage...

Sydney Festival Review: Politics of Care in Force Majeure’s “The Last Season”

Posted by Kate Maguire-Rosier | 29th Jan 2021 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Sydney, Sydney Theatre Festival 2021

Review: The Last Season, directed and choreographed by Danielle Micich, Force Majeure at Sydney...

Death Of The Theatre Critic?

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Jul 2020 | Essay, United Kingdom

This is the age of marketing, not the age of criticism. To give an example, I’ll start with a...

In Suzie Miller’s “Prima Facie,” Theatre Finds a Voice of Reckoning on Sexual Assault and The Law

Posted by Bryoni Trezise | 8th Jun 2019 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender

Suzie Miller’s one-woman play Prima Facie is an unsparing study of the Australian legal system’s...

“Lions And Tigers” at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 5th Sep 2017 | India, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Gandhi has a lot to answer for. I don’t mean the saintly campaigner for Indian independence, who...

Review: “The Nose” At The Royal Opera House

Posted by James Butterwick | 13th Nov 2016 | Review, Russia, Theatre and Opera

Olfactory perception – Shostakovich conkers? Whilst I am in the moron category regarding love of...

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“Macbeth (An Undoing)”: A New Take That Aims To Reimagine Lady Macbeth’s Path – But Ultimately Leaves You Guessing

“Dorian the Musical:” This Rock Adaptation Of Oscar Wilde’s Classic Missteps At Every Turn

Sydney Theatre Company’s “Dracula”: A Virtuosic Performance, Sexy Staging, And A Queer Rewriting

New Play “American Signs” Looks At The Nefarious World Of Consultancies – But Leaves Australia Off The Hook

“Homo Pentecostus:” On Queer Intimacies, Religion, Ancestry And The Human Need For Connection

Back to Back’s “Multiple Bad Things” takes a sophisticated look at the moral ambiguities of today’s ‘culture wars’

“Symphonie Of The Bicycle:” On The Desire To Be Great, And The Desire To Live A Life With Great Meaning

A Story Of Trauma, Hope And Regaining Control, “Nayika: A Dancing Girl” Is Soul-Stirring Dance Theatre

I Wholeheartedly Recommend “The President:” A Brilliant Revival Of A Play Of Decay, Terror And Revulsion

New Play “The Exact Dimensions of Hell” Explores The Chaos And Contradiction Of Teenage Girlhood – And Witchcraft

‘Strong Theatre With Unwavering Precision’: Into The Shimmering World Asks Us What Does It Mean To Be Good?

Love, Loss And Tears – But Also Laughter: Belvoir’s Compelling And Skilful Staging Of “Holding The Man”

Respect And Disrespect Clash Throughout 37 – A Brilliant New Play Exploring Australian Rules Football

Sydney Festival Review: Circa’s “Humans 2.0” is a Visceral Delight

Sydney Festival Review: Politics of Care in Force Majeure’s “The Last Season”

Death Of The Theatre Critic?

In Suzie Miller’s “Prima Facie,” Theatre Finds a Voice of Reckoning on Sexual Assault and The Law

“Lions And Tigers” at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Review: “The Nose” At The Royal Opera House

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