Arts and Entertainment Archive

    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 Buddy Deane Show aired from 1954 until January 1964 when producers chose to cancel the show …

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”, …

Awe-inspiring and fun. Those are the key takeaways from an evening of pure entertainment, courtesy of Strut & Fret’s Blanc de Blanc Encore at one of Sydney’s newest venues, the Grand Electric (formerly known as the Performance Space.) The show does not …

Presented almost like home theatre, such as Charles Dickens might have staged in his own house back in the 19th century day, this version of A Christmas Carol gets its social messaging across as lightly as a sprinkle of fairy dust atop …

In a nutshell, one of the best pieces of theatre I have ever seen in Sydney. Or anywhere. An extraordinary woman, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, extraordinarily well portrayed in a ninety-minute tour de force by actor Heather Mitchell, and written by the extraordinarily …

Engrossing, sad, beautiful, heartbreaking. This wonderful story of a Sri Lankan family torn apart by civil war is brilliantly performed by its multi-national cast, several of whom were in the fabulous Belvoir/Co Curious collaboration Counting and Cracking, which proved such an enormous …

‘Happy Days Are Here Again’ sing four red-nosed fairground clowns (aka Mandy Bishop, Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phil Scott) in the opening number of The Wharf Revue: Looking for Albanese. And for the 90 minutes of this hilarious revue, so they …