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An impressive cast, snappy dialogue and some instantly recognisable archetypes make for an entertaining ninety minutes. Much like forerunners such as the movie Bombshell, A Broadcast Coup takes as its subject matter misogyny in the workplace and, in particular, sexual harassment of …

Engrossing from start to finish, writer/performer Thomas Weatherall’s Blue, a 100-minute monologue delving into loss and love and everything in between, is a beautiful piece of writing and a triumphant playwrighting debut. Weatherall is Mark, one of a pair of ‘Irish twins”, …

Awe-inspiring and fun. Those are the key takeaways from an evening of pure entertainment, courtesy of Strut & Fret’s Blanc de Blanc Encore at one of Sydney’s newest venues, the Grand Electric (formerly known as the Performance Space.) The show does not …

Presented almost like home theatre, such as Charles Dickens might have staged in his own house back in the 19th century day, this version of A Christmas Carol gets its social messaging across as lightly as a sprinkle of fairy dust atop …

In a nutshell, one of the best pieces of theatre I have ever seen in Sydney. Or anywhere. An extraordinary woman, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, extraordinarily well portrayed in a ninety-minute tour de force by actor Heather Mitchell, and written by the extraordinarily …

Engrossing, sad, beautiful, heartbreaking. This wonderful story of a Sri Lankan family torn apart by civil war is brilliantly performed by its multi-national cast, several of whom were in the fabulous Belvoir/Co Curious collaboration Counting and Cracking, which proved such an enormous …

‘Happy Days Are Here Again’ sing four red-nosed fairground clowns (aka Mandy Bishop, Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phil Scott) in the opening number of The Wharf Revue: Looking for Albanese. And for the 90 minutes of this hilarious revue, so they …

And they all lived happily ever after. Hardly a plot spoiler in the fairytale circumstances created by this Rodgers and Hammerstein confection of Cinderella, which in turn relies heavily on the 17th-century tale concocted by Charles Perrault. Disney has made that version …

So you think the butler did it? That’s the long-running surmise to the identity of the killer in Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, which began its run in London in 1952 and is still going strong (having outlived Queen Elizabeth (RIP) and Britain’s …

Vidya Rajan’s stage version of Melina Marchetta’s Looking for Alibrandi is told, as it was in the original novel and in the 2000 film, from the viewpoint of  17-year-old Josie (Chanelle Macri) but as the two-hour play unfolds we find it is …