Arts & Entertainment Reviews — Theatre
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Frame Narrative
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Playing at the historic Old Fitz Theatre is award-winning playwright Emily Sheehan’s Frame Narrative. The story stems from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein looking at what it means to create something new. In the case of Frame N… -
Zombie! The Musical Hayes: Opening Night Review
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Can musical theatre save Sydney from a zombie apocalypse? Zombie The Musical a world premiere new… -
Grain In The Blood
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Have you ever asked yourself what is the difference between ethics and morality? For me, I see ethics as a way of thinking, a set of rules and standards that one uses as a foundation when processing right from wrong. Morality is a code of behavior… -
Dirty Laundry
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Busting for a giggle and a chance to air your deepest, darkest secrets? Roll up to the Sydney Spiegeltent for Briefs: Dirty Laundry. It’s raunchy and ribald, an adults-only queer cabaret, and it’s running as part of the Sydney… -
Secret Girl Stuff
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Flight Path Theatre is running Kaleidoscope Festival until the 24 February. The festival will provide audiences with a double bill each night, consisting of a short 35-minute teaser performance before the main show, Secre… -
Elvis! Returns To Sydney
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Get out your blue suede shoes, Elvis is back in the building! Hip swinging its way around Australia, Elvis: A Musical Revolution has returned! David Venn Enterprises, the team behind Cruel Intentions: The ‘90s Musi… -
Tiny Beautiful Things
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Get ready for an emotional ride with Belvoir St Theatre’s new play Tiny Beautiful Things. It’s an incredible play exploring the hardships of life through agony aunt letters to Sugar (performed with heart and soul by Ma… -
Sydney Festival: Rizo, Prizmatism
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Cabaret requires intimacy. It’s hard to create in a room where the front half is set with lamp-lit bistro tables and chairs and the rear is a grandstand. This was the challenge set for Rizo (Amelia Rose Zirin-Brown) for her second Sydney Festiva… -
Sydney Festival: Overflow
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Providing a rare look into the life of a young transgender woman, Overflow was written by internationally acclaimed writer and one of the UK's most prominent trans voices, Travis Alabanza. Alabanza’s script is funny, fra… -
The Strong Charmion
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"Strength should be an attribute of all humanity. It's not a gift that belongs solely to the male of the species." - Jan Todd: First Woman to Deadlift 400 Pounds Life under the big top isn't easy, the tent goes up and the tent comes… -
Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World is clever, confounding and thrilling. The ultra-modern multi-media theatre piece is fast moving, vocally and visually. Blink and you’ll miss an important piece of information. … -
Sydney Festival: An Evening Without Kate Bush
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An Evening Without Kate Bush is a cabaret show by UK singer-performer Sarah-Louise Young paying homage to musical icon Kate Bush. If you don’t know who Kate Bush is then this probably isn’t the show for you. But fish … -
Tiddas: Sydney Festival Blak Out
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Tiddas opens with the cast making their way to the stage carrying books, wine and a plate of sandwiches, chatting amongst themselves. It is a warm start setting the tone for a play about sisterhood. Set in Bris-Vegas, Tidd… -
Sydney Festival: Are we not drawn onward to new erA
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If you caught World Without Us (Sydney Festival 2018), you know Belgium’s Ontroerend Goed theatre company seek to challenge. Risk taking theatre can be uncomfortable. Director Alexander Devriendt is ever the provocateur. In Are …