Arts & Entertainment Reviews — Theatre

When I sat down to write this review, I looked at my notes and the one word that was heavily underlined on the page is brilliant!!! Just one word is all that is needed to describe this masterful performance piece. Word of warning though, you bette…

Written by University of Wollongong graduate Grace Davidson Lynch, stage play HYDRARCHOS centers around the legendary Sea Serpant Skeleton of the same name supposedly discovered by Albert Karl Koch towards the middle of the 19th century.

This is not a play about sex! Pollock addresses her audience. You can’t blame a Girl for having misconceptions given the title of the play (Rough Trade was the name given to rough or lower-class men sought, and sometimes paid, as casual s…

Losing a loved one to death can be a shattering event. How does one grieve such a loss and comprehend the severing of that physical tie between one person to another? Tom (played by Zoran Jevtic) is young gay man from Montreal who has tra…

The Phantom Of The Opera of course is not all about 'The Chandelier' yet that is indeed a fine place to start.  …

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…

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…

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…