Stage Bruce Gladwin on The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes Daily Review Geelong-based company Back to Back Theatre returns to the Melbourne Festival with its new work “inspired by mistakes, misreadings, misleadings …
Festivals, Reviews, Stage Jack Gow: Just A Small Town Boy Review (Melbourne Fringe) Shane Murphy Jack Gow is, as he avows, both anxious and a tad vain. He worrries. A lot. Should he announce himself? …
Reviews, Stage John Howard was REALLY Bad review Tobias Manderson-Galvin What if your university lecturer was exactly the propagandist the right-wing media claimed they were? What if a young Bill …
Festivals, Reviews, Stage The Power of the Holy Spirit review (Melbourne Fringe) Tobias Manderson-Galvin Harriet Gillies’ newest work explores Marxist neo-feminism, post-humanism and a grim nihilism with subversive, and sometimes unsettling, results. The Power …
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 …
News & Commentary, Stage, Theatre Australia Council’s demotion of plays and playwrights Joanna Murray-Smith What is it about our funding bodies and media that they ignore the role of theatre and playwrights? Every other culturally expressive …
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, Theatre The Bacchae theatre review (La Mama, Melbourne) Tobias Manderson-Galvin Rob Reid’s production of The Bacchae (a co-production of Melbourne’s La Mama, and Monash University Student Theatre) at the La …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre L’Appartement theatre review (QPAC, Brisbane) Vicki Englund Australian theatre lovers would understandably get excited if a play’s title has the bonus of “written and directed by Joanna …
