Arts & Entertainment Reviews — Theatre
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Jekyll & Hyde The Musical: @ Hayes
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Intoxicating. Bewitching. Astounding! It's actually hard to believe that in portraying the duality of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde on the Hayes Theatre stage, Brendan Maclean is making his first appearance in a musical. A… -
Much Ado
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Vibrant, energetic and engaging, this theatre production Much Ado by Attractive, Not Model Attractive crackles, pops and burns with the fervor of a well tended fire. -
Attempts On Her Life
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The beauty of Martin Crimp's Attempts On Her Life is that you can very easily create a sub-text to fit your own point of reference. Even though the play was written a quarter of a century ago, the underlying cynicism and skepticism that per… -
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Sydney is awash with La Nina and musical theatrical diversions in 2022. We raved about the magnificent An American In Paris with its stunning ballet/Broadway choreography and toe tapping George and Ira Gershwin tunes; can-canned our… -
Control by Keziah Warner
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Perhaps nothing is as exciting and inspiring as a new play, and even more so when it's Australian on its Sydney premiere. Just imagine it, writing not just a play, but a trilogy withing a play. Phenomenal. Control is mind blowing on ma… -
Cruel Intentions Musical
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Cruel Intentions opening night and the celebrities (including Sydney Scoop) where strutting their stuff on the purple carpet. On the stage, the leads nailed their songs and their respective cruel or innocent roles. Around us, the … -
Tell me Before the Sun Explodes
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This new Australian work from Jacob Parker takes a particularly interesting angle exploring the queer approach to love and most interstingly death. -
An American In Paris, A New Musical
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An American In Paris is one of the best things seen on the Sydney stage for a long long time. Gershwin show tunes. Ballet, jazz, tap, dancing and singing and more at Theatre Royal Sydney until 3 July 2022. -
Isn't It Queer
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Musicals are pretty gay…am I right…now hear me out. There is nothing we queer folk like more than a song dance. Musicals tick all the boxes...they’re campy, over the top, way to dramatic that they boarder on outlandish, the costumes are spec… -
Circa's Peepshow
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Sensational! Subtly sexy burlesque meets circus aerials and acrobatics. Peepshow by definition is a sequence of pictures viewed through a lens or hole set into a box, formerly offered as a public entertainment, an erotic o… -
North By Northwest Opening Night
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Brilliant, captivating, impeccable! North By Northwest on the Sydney stage. Once upon a time in Hollywood there … -
Can of Worms
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Nothing and nobody are sacred when the Wharf Revue crew has the last laugh. After 20 odd years of satirising the Australian political scene to the nth degree, the A team of Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe, Phillip Scott and Mandy Bishop, once aga… -
Dolly Parton’s 9 TO 5
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FUN FACTOR 5 and a half out of 5! Dolly Parton's 9 To 5 Musical opening night at the Capitol Theatre Sydney, was resplendent with red carpet, paparazzi, celebrity wall and of course all the celebrities. We were the… -
5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche
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Fellow Widow’s! Ladysisters! Welcome, welcome to the The Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein’s annual quiche breakfast, where the motto is “no men, no meat, all manners”. 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche inv… -
Taz Vs. The Pleb
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The Award winning production trio that makes up Rogue Projects has something new up their sleeve this year with a production presented at one of my favorite little venues, Flight Path Theatre. Kasia Vickery’s Taz Vs. The Pleb is a … -
The Wedding Singer Musical
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Get set to be immersed in a magical bubble of vibrant show stopping choreography, goodwill, love and laughter, as you chase the covid blues away with Sydney's latest Broadway hit musical The Wedding Singer now showing in Sydney unti…