Theatre Archive

Broken is a visceral, poetic and exquisitely raw theatre experience, written by Mary Anne Butler and directed by Shannon Murphy. The play tells the interwoven stories of Ash (Rarriwuy Hick), a woman who suffers a horrific rollover car accident while driving through …

If you haven’t done it yet, make the effort to see Ben Elton’s We will Rock You at the Sydney Lyric Theatre before the season ends on June 26. It wasn’t exactly what I expected but the two-and-a-half-hour show delivers the music …

The opening of Belleville makes itself clear; this is a play about modern romantic problems, and in particular, those of two American expats living in Paris, Abby and Zack. In the first scene, Abby, who has come home from a failed yoga class, …

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Art thou Leonard Whiting, who Franco Zefferelli, director of the 1968 classic film, described as having “a magnificent face, gentle, melancholy, sweet, the kind of idealistic young man Romeo ought to be”? Art thou Leonardo Di …

A choking man spits out a hunk of chicken that lands near our feet. A wheelchair is suddenly illuminated by our seats. A crying woman shakes beside us, her tears visible on her face. Participatory theatre? Not intentionally. Try instead intimate theatre …

There is nothing quite like going to the Old Fitz Theatre on opening night: it’s an excuse to get dressed up, have a nice glass of wine or a beer and ogle at the variety of Sydney characters in one of the …

  A Moscow chill is in the air at the Glen Street Theatre with Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor, a work that with its humour and touchingly human dilemmas dispels the cliché portrayal of 19th century Russia as harsh, unyielding and soporific. This …

Sydney Festival’s poster girl is Meow Meow whose orange mermaid fish lips adorn bus stops across the city. But while the cabaret performer is dominating publicity, the Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent in which she performs is also hosting lower profile yet equally dynamic …

Marrugeku’s Cut the Sky is a thought-provoking work that challenges the human race to change its attitude to the Earth before it’s too late. This major new work from Broome’s internationally acclaimed dance-theatre company Marrugeku is an impassioned plea to regard the land as the …

The new Casus Circus act, Knee Deep, now performing as part of the Sydney Festival in the Famous Spiegeltent, is not your usual circus affair. On the black raised platform the Brisbane foursome – three men, one woman – share a story …