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  Part cabaret and part sketch revue, The Recidivists is very, very silly – and I mean that in the nicest possible way. Comedians (and writers) Rob Johnson and Harrison Milas ask, without attempting to answer, such existential questions as ‘Why do …

What an achievement this bAKEHOUSE Theatre and KXT production is. A cast of 15 enact an epic tale that is both a love story and a thriller on a postage stamp of a stage and make it gripping and totally believable. There’s …

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 …

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 …

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 …

  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 …

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 …

Angry. Impassioned. Raw. Intense. Meyne Wyatt’s part-autobiographical City of Gold is all of these things, and more. Barely disguised as the play’s main character, 20-something actor and Wongi man Breythe, this is Wyatt’s  yell of rage and pain about what it is …

In an era when one can be famous for just about anything, who would pass up the chance of cashing in on someone else’s tragedy if it meant a career-defining, multi-million-dollar book deal? Just for being at the right place at the …