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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 …

  An epic play and an epic performance from Robert Menzies as the cantankerous, incredulous and increasingly befuddled old monarch who loses his grip on his mind as he gives away his kingdom. The play was first performed in 1606, in the …

At its heart, Tiddas is a play about friendship. Five forty-something women who have known each other from their schooldays in Mudgee and now live in Brisbane, meet once a month for their Book Club, which – like most book clubs – …

  With its crazy mix of comedy, clowning and aerial acrobatics, last year’s Blanc de Blanc from Strut & Fret set the bar high, and the new iteration Blanc de Blanc Encore, which has just opened at the Grand Electric in Surry …

In the sultry heat of a summer in the American south, among a garden full of Venus fly traps and ferns, Violet Venable (Belinda Giblin) cannot rest. Her beloved son Sebastian – a poet, an artistic soul apparently without fault – died …

  Once upon a time… so begins Peter Carroll, suavely dressed in black and white, in his role as Narrator in Into The Woods, Stephen Sondheim’s 1987 musical that takes characters from such Grimm fairytales as Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and …

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 …

  I confess the name Rosalind Franklin meant nothing to me prior to hearing of Anna Zeigler’s Photograph 51, and I had never given a thought to the discoverers of DNA. Like so many scientific breakthroughs we all take for granted, the …

Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s tale of a university professor’s seduction of one of his students is hardly a new story, but it is so exquisitely told and enacted in this production directed by Petra Kalive that it is a delight from beginning …

Part pure comedy, part satire and always entertaining, Genevieve Hegney and Catherine Moore are back, as unqualified as they were before but still striving to work the system, as well as work around it. Those who saw the first Unqualified, which premiered …