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What a joy to be once more in a theatre and entertained, in this case by the super-slick cast and crew of Pippin. Billed as a musical, Pippin is more than that: it is also part magic show part cabaret and part …

Marco Stojanovik looks at programs that aim to keep indigenous kids out of the justice system. “Alright everybody, same combo: double jab, left, left,” Josh Togo yells out over a smacking of boxing gloves against pads. The young boxers pair off and …

A riot of sharp humour and farce from beginning to end, No Way? No Pay! is an absolute standout. Director Sarah Giles is an adept at comedy (as anyone who saw 2018’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist can attest) and the stellar cast …

Is there irony in David Williamson’s final play having euthanasia and death as one of its themes? Or a little black humour, perhaps? Either way, Crunch Time centres on Steve, a successful businessman with a loving wife and two adult sons who …

The things we do for love. Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam is an adaptation – by actor-writer Steve Rodgers  – of a Peter Goldsworthy novella (1993), which I have not read. I wonder if I had, would I find myself more …

Marta Dusseldorp is wonderful as Hester Collyer in this STC production of The Deep Blue Sea, ably directed by Paige Rattray and which commands attention from the outset with its imposing and memorable set and sound design (David Fleischer and James Brown). …

This is a great play, absolutely relevant for our times, enacted by a fabulous cast under Lee Lewis’s sure direction for Griffin. Playwright David Williamson – in what he has said will be his final play (but we’ve heard that before) – …

This is a great story, well told by an all-Aboriginal cast, and one that should be much more familiar to us all. The stories passed down to us through history are not always strictly accurate, and that goes for the one about …

This is 50 minutes of theatre magic! Into the gloom of dark, dingy and dusty set comes a dishevelled and dusty old man. At the back of the stage is a tip’s worth of old metal filing cabinets. In the centre is …

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 …