Reviews Archive

Here’s one for Neil Simon fans. Set in 1965, The Odd Couple is about the trials as well as the joy and responsibilities of friendships, about how we behave with one another. It begins with five old comrades playing their Friday night poker …

You can’t live in Australia and not know the name Packer, although younger audiences might need to do a bit of research to keep up with some of the references in this tightly scripted and fast-moving play. Frank, who became Sir Frank, …

Set in 1971 in a psychiatric facility, Così is a play about friendship, romance, community and difference. At its heart is a group of people at odds with society: the inmates of an asylum. Enter Lewis (Sean Keenan), fresh out of uni …

If he is a good boy, does the right thing, turns the other cheek to injustices, then goodness will surely run him over… and he will get the bike he dreams of, the BMX bike mum has promised him. Justin Amankwah is …

Refreshing different and wonderfully funny, Rita Kalnejais’s play is not easily categorised. But you will be entertained. And whatever you read into the underlying messages, you will laugh – and, given everything that is going on in the world, that is a …

  Did she or didn’t she? Louisa Collins was the last woman to be hanged in NSW, found guilty of the poisoning death of two husbands. Dubbed the ‘Borgia of Botany’ by the newspapers of the day, she went to her death …

Who holds the power in Baby Doll? When the film (directed by Elia Kazan) was released in 1956, it was controversial because of its overt sexuality (the Catholic Legion of Decency gave it a ‘Condemned’ rating and labelled it ‘grievously offensive to …

This is a wonderfully refreshing and enacting imagination of what life could have been like nearly five hundred years ago if one was unfortunate enough to be married to that most Christian King and Defender of the Faith, Henry VIII. Canadian playwright …

Alinta Chidzey’s mesmerizing opening number All That Jazz sets the bar high for this return season of the longest running American musical in Broadway and West End history, and it’s great to be able to say it stays high. The Kander/Ebb and Fosse …

With its high-octane energy and first-rate balletic dancing this Opera Australia production of West Side Story draws the audience in straight away. The cast is youthful, as befits a couple of warring street gangs in 1950s New York, too young and too …