Reviews, Stage Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam review (Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney) Jason Whittaker The drought has broken, if not out west then certainly in Surry Hills. As the rain tumbled down outside, the …
Reviews, Stage The Beauty Queen of Leenane review (Sydney Theatre Company) Jason Whittaker Before Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and all that Oscars attention, before In Bruges, his film directorial debut, before plays …
Reviews, Stage First Love is the Revolution review (Griffin Theatre, Sydney) Jason Whittaker Have any two lovers been as star-cross’d as Basti and Rdeca? Fourteen-year-old Basti (short for Sebastian) has a broken heart …
Musicals, Reviews, Theatre Billy Elliot review (Lyric Theatre, Sydney) Jason Whittaker Imagine singing a song. In tune. Pretending to be an entirely different person. Who speaks (and sings) in a foreign …
Reviews, Stage Fangirls review (Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney) Jason Whittaker That piercing shrill you’ve heard wafting from Surry Hills this week? That would be the singular sound of teenage girls …
Reviews, Stage The Wharf Revue 2019: Unr-dact-d Review (Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney) Jason Whittaker It felt an awful lot like the long goodbye, this latest edition of the beloved annual Sydney Theatre Company chuckle-fest. …
Opera, Reviews, Stage Ghost Sonata review (Opera Australia scenery workshop, Sydney) Jason Whittaker We’re not in the Opera House anymore, Toto. It’s cold. The seats are uncomfortably plastic. And the opera is unlike …
Musicals, Reviews, Stage Caroline, or Change theatre review (Hayes Theatre, Sydney) Jason Whittaker As the lonely, sex-starved, pill-popping housewife Harper Pitt said to the mannequin in the Mormon Center diorama: “How do people …
Musicals, Reviews, Stage Chicago review (Capitol Theatre, Sydney) Jason Whittaker There’s a great scene in the often great Fosse/Verdon, the recent TV bio-series, if we’re to believe it, showing a …
Reviews, Stage Lord of the Flies review (Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney) Jason Whittaker Lord Of The Flies seems to have been with us forever, from its ancient religious context to the idiom that …