Coming Up Archive

Sheridan Harbridge is just superb in this stunningly good homage to Australian rock icon and Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett. Described as a ‘rock odyssey’ of music, storytelling and unapologetic attitude that blends biography and concert anecdotes, the show is all that and …

  David Williamson’s latest play takes a swipe at elites and wannabes. Katie Norrie (Mandy Bishop) doesn’t want a taste of the high life, she wants a seat at the table – or more accurately on the board of an important art …

This is a good, old-fashioned murder mystery, delivered with panache – and one that keeps us guessing until the final scene. Director Mark Kilmurry drives the plot along with precision, and his cast of five cannot be faulted. Frederick Knott’s Dial M …

What a wonderful production of Edward Albee’s searingly black comedy! George and Martha, middle-aged, married and famously unhappy, first burst onto the stage in 1962 and ultimately the play was a huge success – even though, according to the program notes, ‘it …

Billed as ‘a rollicking queer Western’, Charlie Josephine’s Cowbois , which debuted in the UK in 2023, could also be described as a gay rights party – with guns. And cowboys. Whatever it is, with its gunsmokin’, all singin’ and dancin’ cast …

Old men behaving badly. Old men with power, who rule kingdoms or countries, behaving badly? Yep. Should parents be wary of giving too much dosh and agency to their offspring? Probably. Not much has changed since Shakespeare’s King Lear first entertained audiences …

When you wake up thinking about the show you saw the night before, you know it made an impression and this Romeo & Juliet, directed by Bell Shakespeare’s Peter Evans, stays in the mind for all the right reasons. It is absorbing …

  FULL DISCLOSURE, folks: This is not my review. It is written by Diana Simmonds of Stage Noise, and she has kindly given her permission to reprint it here. (Why didn’t I review it? The secret is in the cast names! No …

A comedy about climate change? Played by actors, naked apart from crocs and handmade hats? Yes, you can ask why. Here’s the playwright, Ang Collins: ‘Long story short – the combination of a bushfire evacuation, a love of nude beaches and …

Billed as intoxicating blend of spectacle, comedy and cabaret, La Ronde does not disappoint. The performers – who include acrobats, trapeze artistes and aerialists – hail from Australia and overseas, and do things with their bodies which cause us mere mortals wonder …