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 …
Festivals, Theatre Anthem review (Melbourne International Arts Festival) Megan Whitfield In 1999 four playwrights and a composer came together to create a work examining the cultural makeup of 1990s Australia. …
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 …
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 …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre The Torrents theatre review (Sydney Opera House) Jason Whittaker The Torrents is not, in fact, a play about the battle faced by content creators against illegal downloaders. Stand down, …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre S-27 theatre review (Fremantle Arts Centre) Humphrey Bower S-27 (or Security Prison 27) was a former secondary school in Phnom Penh that was used by the Khmer Rouge …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre Once theatre review (Eternity Playhouse, Sydney) Jason Whittaker What’s left to say about a sold-out run of a cherished musical in a production already heaped with praise? Well, …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre Razorhurst theatre review (Hayes Theatre, Sydney) Jason Whittaker As music theatre opening numbers go, Razorhurst’s is hardly a showstopper. Crime maven Tilly Devine (Amelia Cormack) lumbers around the …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre Things I Know To Be True theatre review (Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney) Jason Whittaker I hated this play. Watching its premiere at the State Theatre Company in Adelaide a couple of years back, Andrew …
