Theatre Archive

  Murder on the Wireless is a huge serve of nostalgia, harking back to the days when entertainment came via the radio and aural plays were the thing. A few lucky people had black and white TV – certainly not colour – …

In an era when one can be famous for just about anything, who would pass up the chance of cashing in on someone else’s tragedy if it meant a career-defining, multi-million-dollar book deal? Just for being at the right place at the …

There’s the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And then there is the legal truth. Which is often a patriarchal affair. Sheridan Harbridge is awesome in this one-hander that highlights the bias against the female in sexual assault cases. She’ll …

  Inescapable fact: We’re all gonna die. Indisputable fact: The ‘death industry’, ie. those good folk helping the bereaved arrange funerals is massive (well, there’s always a demand – and just think of all those times you’ve heard ads exhorting you to …

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, with Zahra Newman as the titular cat Maggie, opens with her rendition of Cry Me A River, in which she holds the stage like a sultry cabaret star in a dark nightclub. It continues with an …

I’m not confident about reviewing classical music, but I am a big fan of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and have been lucky enough to attend many of their concerts over the years, so I just want to tell you that their latest …

“There’s nowt so queer as folk.” That’s an expression from the north of England (Yorkshire and Lancashire, if you want me to be precise), which basically means there is no accounting for human behaviour. It came to mind as I was watching …

Chaos versus order; the heart versus the head; science versus emotion. These are the themes running through Lucy Kirkwood’s ambitious new play Mosquitoes. At its heart is the relationship of two very different sisters, intellectually brilliant Alice (Jacqueline McKenzie) and her much …

The publicity photos for A Little Piece of Ash show the actors with cigarettes in various orifices but this is not a play about smoking, it’s about grieving and loss, and moving on. It’s about life. Jedda’s mum has just died. It …

Part family drama, part road trip and part cri de coeur, Barbara and the Camp Dogs is both a raucously funny tale and a soberingly sad one. It’s also a really good musical night out, with Belvoir’s upstairs theatre converted into a …