Category: Drama
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4000 Miles (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★½
The reason you’ll want to see this is Shirong Wu’s show-stealing performance which breathes life into the sedate (and strangely knotty) plot.
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Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen (Sydney Opera House) ★★★★½
Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen is less a play about a stand-up comic than it is a magic show in its own right.
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Jacky (Belvoir) ★★★★★
The starting gun for the 2025 Sydney theatre season has definitely sounded.
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Dark Noon (Sydney Festival) ★★★½
Be warned, it’s confronting, and for those in the front row, unexpectedly interactive.
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Top 10 Shows of 2024
Out of all the Sydney shows I saw, I’ve put together my personal Top Ten. These are all shows that I really enjoyed and which have stayed with me through the year.
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Snowflake (Old Fitz) ★★★★½
The real draw here is an intelligent, thoughtful script that looks beyond the reactionary, and three absolutely perfect performances.
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Looking Ahead to the 2025 Season
Sydney’s major theatre companies have announced their 2025 seasons and there is a lot to pick over.
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People Will Think You Don’t Love Me (KXT Broadway) ★★★★
It’s a horror trope we know well. The protagonist has a transplant (a heart, a brain or an arm usually) and they become possessed by the original owner’s spirit…
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The Inheritance, Parts 1 & 2 (Seymour Centre) ★★★★½
Grab a cushion and strap yourself in for a literary, theatrical marathon because The Inheritance has finally come to Sydney!
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Interview: Director Shane Anthony on The Inheritance. “It’s rare that we get these kinds of durational experiences in Sydney.”
Matthew López’s Olivier and Tony Award winning two-part drama, The Inheritance Parts 1 & 2, is finally coming to Sydney this month. Director Shane Anthony stepped out of rehearsals to have a quick chat about why The Inheritance is so beloved and still so timely.
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