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Stirring solos, captivating duets and soaring ensemble numbers are the hallmarks of a stunning world premiere concert production of an...

Survival is at stake when three young men find themselves lost in the middle of the ocean with no food and very little water and no way...

Outstanding performances distinguish an extraordinarily insightful, Pulitzer Prize-winning (2018) script about the human condition in...

The cutthroat razor is sharpened and ready for the kill in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.   Forty-five years on, the...

How very exciting for The Australian Ballet to be presenting the world premiere of a new full-length ballet … and it is spectacular.  ...

You’re The Man, a 75-minute play about the ugly face of domestic violence, is dramatic, potent and upsetting, just as it should be.  ...

I saw Red Stitch’s Iphigenia in Splott three years ago and thought it was one of the finest productions I had seen. This return season...

The vicissitudes of show business are brought into sharp focus in theatrical’s production of A Chorus Line. Under the keen eye of...

It is so much riotous fun – a zany hoot. The 36-year wait for the sequel to the beloved Beetlejuice has well and truly been worth it.  ...

Noni Hazlehurst delivers an inspired performance in the slice of life piece Mother.   Homeless and shoeless, she plays the character...

Competition can be invigorating, but also dramatic and soul destroying.   That is the theme of the two parter created under the auspices...

Life in all its messiness is played out in Lyric Opera’s chamber opera The Children’s Bach.   With music by Andrew Schultz and libretto...

Acclaimed actor Bert LaBonté makes his directorial debut with the jive talking, Pulitzer Prize winning comedic drama Topdog/Underdog. It...

There is one way to compromise a dramatic tale of obsession gone horribly askew that features impressive staging. Get the sound mix...

An esoteric work for selective tastes, as far as I could make out An Organised Odyssey is about finding one’s true voice.   According to...

Families – you can’t live with them, you can’t live without them.   That idiom may well apply to the characters in the sharp comedic...

Writer Benjamin Nichol continues his incendiary anthology series of plays with the double bill Milk and Blood.   Each 70 minutes in...

One of the cleverest and funniest pieces of musical theatre I have had the good fortune to see, Murder for Two is a triumph of writing,...

If I reference the word “suffragette”, the first name that will pop into many people’s heads will be Emmeline Pankurst (1858 – 1928).  ...

The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, which dates back to the Middle Ages, has been upended in glorious fashion in the stunning new...