Festivals, Musicals, News & Commentary WOMADelaide 2020: an interview with Director Ian Scobie Murray Bramwell This Friday WOMADelaide returns to Adelaide’s Botanic Park. Director Ian Scobie talks with MURRAY BRAMWELL about the enduring international music …
Musicals, Stage ‘Chicago’. What’s Gen Z got to to do with it? Charlie Gill Humanity is continuing on its path towards oblivion, hurtling from the present to the future until the inevitable collapse of …
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 …
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 …
Musicals, Reviews, Stage Come From Away musical review (Comedy Theatre, Melbourne) Anders Furze It’s undoubtedly a remarkable story. In the immediate wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the entire United States airspace …
Musicals, Reviews, Stage West Side Story review (Arts Centre Melbourne) Fiona Blair There are two ways to go with this: bite back a sob of nostalgia for an imagined past where teen …
Musicals, Reviews, Stage Saturday Night Fever theatre review (Lyric Theatre, Sydney) Jason Whittaker You know that Simpsons episode where Mr Burns and Smithers drug Tom Jones and chain him to a stage to …
Musicals, Reviews, Stage Muriel’s Wedding the Musical review (Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne) Fiona Blair Friendship’s the thing in Muriel’s Wedding. Friendship, and self respect. And credit card fraud… Though you know what they say: …
Musicals, Reviews, Stage Jersey Boys theatre review (Regent Theatre, Melbourne) Fiona Blair Yep, the show that played 11 years on Broadway, winning awards (Tonys, Grammys, Oliviers) and spawning multiple international productions, a …