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The drought has broken, if not out west then certainly in Surry Hills. As the rain tumbled down outside, the …

The Beauty Queen of Leenane review (Sydney Theatre Company)

Before Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and all that Oscars attention, before In Bruges, his film directorial debut, before plays …

Have any two lovers been as star-cross’d as Basti and Rdeca? Fourteen-year-old Basti (short for Sebastian) has a broken heart …

Imagine singing a song. In tune. Pretending to be an entirely different person. Who speaks (and sings) in a foreign …

That piercing shrill you’ve heard wafting from Surry Hills this week? That would be the singular sound of teenage girls …

It felt an awful lot like the long goodbye, this latest edition of the beloved annual Sydney Theatre Company chuckle-fest. …

We’re not in the Opera House anymore, Toto. It’s cold. The seats are uncomfortably plastic. And the opera is unlike …

As the lonely, sex-starved, pill-popping housewife Harper Pitt said to the mannequin in the Mormon Center diorama: “How do people …

There’s a great scene in the often great Fosse/Verdon, the recent TV bio-series, if we’re to believe it, showing a …

Lord Of The Flies seems to have been with us forever, from its ancient religious context to the idiom that …