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In the sultry heat of a summer in the American south, among a garden full of Venus fly traps and ferns, Violet Venable (Belinda Giblin) cannot rest. Her beloved son Sebastian – a poet, an artistic soul apparently without fault – died …

Billed as an ‘oh, so crass, one-woman crusade’, Eloise Snape’s debut play Pony is also a hilarious (and so on point) depiction of the one-way, life-changing journey into motherhood. Hazel (Briallen Clarke) is pregnant. She is also delusional, in denial and doing …

With Tina Turner’s mega-hit songs buzzing in my head, it’s hard to resist calling this musical ‘simply the best’. But on the other hand, credit where credit is due: with Ruva Ngwenya belting out such classics as ‘Proud Mary’ and shimmying across …

The story behind the musical of La Cage aux Folles, derived from Jean Poiret’s 1973 French play, is that family should stick together, no matter what. Simple enough, except that the family in question is a gay couple – Georges (Michael Cormick), …

  Once upon a time… so begins Peter Carroll, suavely dressed in black and white, in his role as Narrator in Into The Woods, Stephen Sondheim’s 1987 musical that takes characters from such Grimm fairytales as Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and …

    It is the children, more often than not, who observe most closely the tragedy and pain of marriage breakups – and that is true whether the breakup is within a ‘conventional’ nuclear family or, as is the case of the …

  Hairspray is transporting Sydney audiences back to the swinging Sixties when hair was big, boots were high and the call for racial equality was loud. The hit Broadway musical is set in Baltimore in 1962, two years before the landmark 1964 Civil …

The team behind Darkness – and it’s quite a team, Andrew Bovell, Zoey Dawson, Dino Dimitriadis, Dan Giovannoni and Megan  Wilding – invites audiences to ‘experience darkness’. This new work was inspired by certain events that took place in 1816, known now as the …

An impressive cast, snappy dialogue and some instantly recognisable archetypes make for an entertaining ninety minutes. Much like forerunners such as the movie Bombshell, A Broadcast Coup takes as its subject matter misogyny in the workplace and, in particular, sexual harassment of …

Engrossing from start to finish, writer/performer Thomas Weatherall’s Blue, a 100-minute monologue delving into loss and love and everything in between, is a beautiful piece of writing and a triumphant playwrighting debut. Weatherall is Mark, one of a pair of ‘Irish twins”, …