Theatre Archive

Fans of The Addams Family 1960s cult TV series will love the musical now at the Capitol Theatre until April 28. Younger fans are more likely to remember the 1990s films starring Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia but whatever your history with this …

Katurian is a writer with little success but great self belief. He is the Grimm Brothers incarnate, spinning twisted tales about secluded houses in the woods and little girls swallowing razor blades. But the strangest story of all is the one in which Katurian …

Short + Sweet, the world’s biggest short play festival, delivered an interesting selection of short plays this year with a quirky movement-based piece taking out first prize last Saturday night at the Seymour Centre. After a nine-week season showcasing 170 ten-minute plays …

Just when I thought I could no longer pull men, I went to the launch of the Sydney Comedy Festival and found I was wrong. A little hairy and maybe a tad under age, my new escort was gallant, affectionate and affable, …

What’s it like to direct Australian living treasure John Bell? Jove for Sport Theatre artistic director Damien Ryan can offer some insight. Ryan is co-directing the first Bell Shakespeare production for 2013, Henry 4, in which Bell plays Falstaff as well as directing. …

This work is an eclectic showcase of 12 solo performances by some of the best dancers from the independent dance sector in Australia. Slow Dances for Fast Times opened at the Carriageworks on March 6. As always when visiting Carriageworks I was …

Some things take a very long time to change. If that were not so, Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy – which opened at the Darlinghurst Theatre on February 5 – would not continue to be so relevant. This very funny but deeply dark play …

If you like literary allusions, poetry, pop culture and word play you will enjoy Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, which opened at the Sydney Opera House on February 12. This erudite comedy has a large smattering of Auden, plenty of laughs and …

The first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander playwriting festival to be held in Sydney in two decades is now underway with six playwrights chosen to showcase their work this week. The last Indigenous playwriting festival was held in Adelaide in 2000; the …

“Cali es Cali, y lo demas es loma!” – Cali is Cali, and the rest is mountains. This is what anyone from the dangerous and vibrant city of Cali, Colombia, will tell you about their hometown. A small piece of this gritty, …