Category: Theatre
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Hayes Theatre) ★★★★★
Perfect. No Notes.
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Summer of Harold (Ensemble Theatre) ★★★1/2
Written by Hilary Bell. World Premiere. Ensemble Theatre. 8 Sep – 14 Oct, 2023. Hilary Bell’s triptych of short plays focuses on the way memory interacts with our present-day lives. From heart-warming stories of youth, to tales of past snubs and regrets. Summer of Harold, Enfant Terrible and Lookout are beautiful vignettes of life, showcasing…
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Beauty & the Beast (Capitol Theatre) ★★★
Book by Linda Woolverton. Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice. Capitol Theatre, Sydney. Jun 14 – Dec 24, 2023. Beauty & the Beast alternates between, well, being beautiful and being beastly. At times it’s full of wonder and at times it just plods its way through the story. But one…
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Interview: Playwright Simon Stephens on ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ (2018)
Back in 2018 I visited Simon Stephens’ home in London to talk about The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
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Wicked (Sydney Lyric) ★★★★★
Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Book by Winnie Holzman. Based on the book by Gregory Maguire. Sydney Lyric. 25 Aug – 31 Dec 2023. Whoever thought the tale of an unlikely friendship between a green domestic terrorist and a blonde collaborator, who fall in love with the same Shiz-tagram thirst-trap would be one of…
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The Dismissal (Seymour Centre) ★★★★
Book by Blake Erickson and Jay James-Moody, Music and Lyrics by Laura Murphy, Conceived by Jay James-Moody. World Premiere. Seymour Centre. 31 Aug – 21 Oct 2023. Squabbalogic’s time-travelling new musical, The Dismissal, is an assault on your senses (and memories) as it retells the story of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s demise. It’s an insane…
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Miss Saigon (Sydney Opera House) ★★★★★
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg. Lyrics by Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. Book by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil. Dame Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House. 17 Aug – 13 Oct, 2023. Full review up on The Queer Review.
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The Hollow (Genesian Theatre) ★★★
Written by Agatha Christie. Genesian Theatre Company. 19 Aug – 23 Sep, 2023. After seeing both The Mousetrap and Witness for the Prosecution in the last year, I’ve been keen to see more of Agatha Christie’s plays. The Hollow is an adaptation of the Hercule Poirot novel of the same name, sans Poirot – a…
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The Approach (Flight Path Theatre) ★★★
Written by Mark O’Rowe. Flight Path Theatre. 16 Aug – 2 Sep, 2023. Mark O’Rowe’s The Approach became something of a Covid lock down hit when it was streamed live from Dublin. A circular tale of three women, having three conversations that mimic and loop around each other to slowly reveal the inner lives of…
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Murder for Two (Hayes Theatre) ★★★★★
Music & book by Joe Kinosian, lyrics & book by Kellen Blair. Hayes Theatre. 4 Aug – 3 Sep, 2023. I’m just going to come out and say what I’m thinking. Murder for Two is the best thing I’ve seen at the Hayes Theatre in years. It’s exactly the kind of show the venue is…
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