Festivals, Stage Postcard from the Adelaide Festival ‘Turning up the Heat’: Dance into Images, Music into Dance Humphrey Bower The Adelaide Festival ran from February 28 – March 15, 2020. In this postcard HUMPHREY BOWER reviews Kiss & Cry …
Reviews, Stage Last Words review (Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre) Shane Murphy Written and performed by Joseph Sherman, Last Words is part reminiscence, part exploration, part homage and celebration and part reliving …
Reviews, Stage Perth Festival Postcard 1: Grounding and ‘Hecate’ Humphrey Bower Perth Festival Director Iain Grandage’s inaugural program reflects his passion for music (of all genres) and Indigenous collaboration (in many …
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 …
Festivals, Stage ‘A Special Day’: a conversation with Ana Graham and Antonio Vega Humphrey Bower A Mexican theatre company’s minimalist stage adaptation, for two actors, of a classic Italian film about fascism is a somewhat …
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 …
Reviews, Stage Postcard from New York: The Inheritance review Humphrey Bower The Inheritance is a two-part, seven-hour adaptation of E. M. Forster’s novel Howard’s End, set in contemporary New York. It …
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 …
Dance, Reviews, Stage Sylvia review (The Australian Ballet) Martin Portus Many have praised Leo Delibes’ dramatic score for Sylvia – Tchaikovsky loved it – but no choreographer has quite got …
