Theatre Review
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The Mathematics Of Longing Brisbane Review @ La Boite Theatre
'The Mathematics Of Longing' by Suzie Miller (in collaboration with The Farm and The Uncertainty Principle) took some of the work of Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking and Albert
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Doubt: A Parable @ Old Fitz Theatre Review
Okay, first up, bless me father, hear my confession. I've been cast in the part of Fr Flynn before. So to hear these lines again, it's like hearing a familiar song... But a
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Dusty: The Musical @ Adelaide Festival Centre Review
Amy Lehpamer and debutante Baylie Carson give their hearts and souls as Dusty Springfield and her inner child in a revival tailored to our modern times.
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Fawlty Towers Live @ QPAC Review
Remakes are popular, but they’re hard to get right.
Whenever you take a pop-culture icon and try and revamp it, it runs the risk of annoying the fans, and those who... -
RENT @ The Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre Review
If turning the AIDS epidemic into an musical seems a little macabre, any audience of Jonathan Larson's soaring and spirited 'RENT' is left to conclude "well, what else can
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SK!N @ OzAsia Review
You can never really understand an asylum seeker until you consider things from their point of view... Until you climb inside of their skin and walk around in it.
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Singin' In The Rain @ QPAC Review
From the classic 1952 film 'Singin' In The Rain' comes the visually spectacular stage show of the same name, playing at Queensland Performing Arts Centre.
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Ballet Preljocaj's Snow White @ QPAC Review
Some of the most enduring and powerful fairytales are dark and dangerous. Ballet Preljocaj’s ‘Snow White’ is a potent reminder of this.
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Wicked @ Redcliffe Musical Theatre Review
From the very first note struck by the finely tuned, 17-piece orchestra, I realise that I am not in Kansas anymore. Instead I am flying somewhere between Munchkinland and Oz
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Straight White Men @ La Boite Theatre Review, 2016
'Straight White Men' by La Boite and SA State Theatre Company is undoubtedly a comedy: a situational comedy where the jokes are exaggerated and behaviour concentrated to the
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Heathers: The Musical @ QPAC Review
It was a night of '80s fashion, fun and murder that was so very, when 'Heathers: The Musical'
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The Popular Mechanicals @ Adelaide Festival Centre Review
Hilarious from the get go, the State Theatre Company of South Australia’s brilliant production of 'The Popular Mechanicals' had audience members in stiches through until the
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Sunnytown @ La Boite Review
'Sunnytown's audience is theoretically suspended above a suburban story, waiting for the final blow to send them plummeting.
Created by Heather Fairbairn and... -
Strictly Ballroom @ QPAC Review 2015
It was a glitzy, glamorous night to remember at QPAC’s Brisbane premiere of 'Strictly Ballroom',
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Matilda The Musical @ Sydney Lyric Theatre Review
From the moment the lights dim and eight pairs of hands creep out from underneath a tablecloth, pitter-pattering their way (and the table's... -
Fly-In Fly-Out @ Judith Wright Centre Review
Despite a limited stage set-up and a cast of just five, 'Fly-In Fly-Out' managed to stimulate the
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Medea @ La Boite Review
In Greek mythology Medea was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Cirece and the grand-daughter of Helios the sun-god.
She was a woman of great lineage... -
The 39 Steps Brisbane Arts Theatre Review
Since its premier in 2006 Patrick Barlow’s comic adaption of John Buchan’s 1915 novel 'The 39 Steps', has been on a journey as long and involved as that of the central
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Samson Review
'Samson' is the latest La Boite drama currently at the Roundhouse and it’s a bold debut for first time playwright, and previous playwright-in-residence Julia-Rose
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'Brisbane' QPAC: Review
It is 1942, and Japanese troops are moving steadily closer to Australia.
In Brisbane, 14 year old Danny Fisher (Dash Kruck) is in the shadow of his talented older...