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Seventy-five years on, Guys & Dolls continues to charm and delight.   The Handa Opera production on Sydney Harbour is polished, memorable...

Is the rock a portal to other worlds, the conduit for transformative magic, which allows people to simply disappear?   These are...

What a powerhouse of a show this is. The music, the moves and magnitude of it all were certainly not lost on me.   The setting is the...

Twenty-one-year-old Leo Joseph-Connell (Shiv Palekar) values his independence.   He’s fallen out with his mother Jane and is on a...

One of the most powerful opening nights I have attended, the cast of Jesus Christ Superstar absolutely nailed it at the Princess Theatre....

Can we escape a tortured past? That question is at the heart of the new drama Lyceum Highway, written by KV Adams and debuting at Meat...

Boys on the Verge of Tears is one of the toughest, grittiest plays I have come across.   Having premiered at the Soho Theatre in London...

A rogue cop, police brutality and domestic violence are front and centre in David Williamson’s incendiary satire The Removalists.  ...

A Zen experience involving the late, great Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (17th January, 1952 – 28th March, 2023), Kagami fuses music...

Strong socially progressive views, music and poetry distinguish Neil Cole’s new play An Audience with Don Dunstan. It shines a light on...

Stunning. Brilliant. Remarkable.   Heather Mitchell’s portrayal of US Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg is one of the most...

Misery abounds in Anton Chekov’s Three Sisters.   One hundred and 25 years after he wrote it, it continues to resonate.   The three...

Dark and dramatic comes this contemporary adaptation of Georges Bizet’s 19th-century opera.   What choreographer John Inger has done in...

It is Melbourne 2042 and artificial intelligence has evolved.   Melanie Chan Wing Lam (Jing-Xuan Chan) has died (it appears to be...

If you have money, just how far are you prepared to go and at what price?   That is the question at the centre of the devilishly clever...

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Revolutionary back in the day, The Boys in the Band still packs punch 57 years later.   In 1968, when the play premiered...

It is such a cliché, but trust the magnificent wordsmith in Joanna Murray-Smith to give it so much edge and polish. I speak of an older...

What was it that first divided the world?   Could the answer to that question be attributed to the parable as outlined in the Book of...

Passion, intellect, history and legacy explode on stage in the masterfully written, acted, directed and produced romantic, dramatic,...

Here we have a new Australian musical that I wanted to embrace, but I struggled with.   Most of it is set in a traditional Irish/American...