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Creative – yes. Original – my word. Captivating – not so much.   I struggled with Apologia, which is a reflection on language,...

Can one truly escape one’s past? Can true love win out?   These are questions posed in Giacomo Puccini’s La Rondine (The Swallow).   The...

SIX sizzles and girl power rules.   It is a high-octane musical in every sense of those words. I speak of talent, production values,...

This is a Wilde/wild night all right – oh so deliciously wacky, in fact. Bloomshed has taken the essence of Oscar Wilde’s original farce,...

When British author E.J. James released his erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey in 2011, it titillated an excited throng of...

It is not hard to see why Banksy’s street art has captured global imagination and attention. With his satirical stencil work, he has been...

Identity. Being comfortable in our own skin. It is integral to who we are and what we stand for. English is about that. It is about love...

The moral dilemma. Juicy. Delicious. Ideal for the stage. It is at the heart of Only Child, a new play from Leah Annetta. Divorced,...

A unique plant runs amok. There you have it. A five-word synopsis of the darkly comedic offering that is Little Shop of Horrors. With...

Oh my, what a special kind of subversive offering The State is. In play are democracy and revolution, for this is a huge dig at all that...

Julie Rodgers (Elyse Batson) is having a very bad day. The 28-year-old has just been sacked from her secretarial role for rejecting her...

Since the age of 11, when he was taken to see the dark musical Chicago at the Sydney Opera House, Scott Hollingsworth has dreamt of...

Star crossed lovers all right, but this isn’t the Montagues and the Capulets. In fact, far from it … and neither are we in historic...

Love, loss and laughter are potent and enduring in composer William Finn’s (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) Elegies. Based...

Anger and frustration explode in Samuel D. Hunter’s power packed drama The Whale, which is about connection and redemption. While the...

One of the great plays of the 20th century retains its vibrancy and bite in a stunning MTC production, headlined by a bravura showing...

Slick, Cirque Bon Bon is a lively and most entertaining showcase of the circus arts. Its very funny front man is an ardent fan of Queen...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has a deeply chequered history, with several name changes and millions of lives lost. Please re-read...

A striking reimagining of Shakespeare’s tale of murder and madness, Zinnie Harris approaches the tragedy from Lady Macbeth’s perspective....

First up, an admission – I love Victorian Opera's commitment to diversity in performance. Its range of operatic offerings is grand and...