Category: Comedy
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The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin (Griffin) ★★★★★
This is Simon Burke’s show — we’re just lucky to be able to buy a ticket.
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Perfect Arrangement (New Theatre) ★★★½
Thanks to a sharp script and strong performances, the show ultimately shines through its own sometimes flawed execution.
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Purpose (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★
Purpose comes to Sydney on the shoulders of a lot of expectation.
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The Girl’s Guide to Saving the World (Old Fitz) ★★★½
Twenty-something insecurities hit home in Elinor Cook’s funny The Girl’s Guide to Saving the World.
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Congratulations, Get Rich! 恭喜发财, 人日快乐 (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★
Some very good elements mixed with some poor elements mean it all evens out in the wash.
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The Seagull (KXT on Broadway) ★★★★½
This may be the first genuinely good pandemic-adjacent play I’ve seen — and also one of the best adaptations of The Seagull
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Cowbois (Seymour Centre) ★★★
Cowbois, a queer fantasia on Western themes now playing at Seymour Centre, ricochets between tones at a furious pace.
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Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★★
It’s back — the most caustic of all domestic comedies.
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Atlantis (KXT on Broadway) ★★★
Almost ten years on from the play’s debut (at the old KXT, as part of the Sydney Fringe 2016), this Atlantis has risen again.
