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New York Mini-Reviews p3: New Broadway Musicals
Three of them are stone cold hits, and one will sadly sink against all the competition.
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New York Mini-Reviews p2: Broadway Musicals
The whole purpose of the trip was really to catch up with the big Broadway musicals. Here are the longer running ones.
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New York Mini-Reviews p1: Off-Broadway
Let’s start Off-Broadway.
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Golden Blood 黄金血液 (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★
This may be Tong’s playwriting debut but Golden Blood is a terrifically sharp 90 minute two-hander.
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The Queen’s Nanny (Ensemble Theatre) ★★★★
The more I think about The Queen’s Nanny, the more it makes me smile.
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Mercury Poisoning (KXT on Broadway) ★★★1/2
You can’t accuse Madeleine Stedman’s Mercury Poisoning of lacking ambition.
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Mardi Gras Film Festival 2024 (Updating)
This year I’m reviewing films at the Mardi Gras Film Festival 2024 for The Queer Review, so I’ve created a page to collate all the coverage (including reviews and interviews for films screening at the festival). I’ve sorted the reviews into star order so you can clearly see which films The Queer Review recommends. This…
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The Wind in the Willows (KXT on Broadway) ★★★1/2
If I were to sum up The Wind in the Willows at KXT on Broadway in one word it would be ‘charming’. There is a quintessentially British charm to the story of Ratty, Moley, Mr Toad and Badger that taps into an idea of childhood without delving into childishness.
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Oil (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★★
May, the heroine of Oil, is timeless. She is both a storytelling tool, an archetype that spans hundreds of years, and a mother doing her best for her daughter. But ‘doing her best’ doesn’t necessarily mean ‘doing good’. If nothing else, Oil is about the cycles of our lives and the loops humanity finds itself…
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MQFF 2023 Reviews UPDATED
I’m reviewing films at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival this year for The Queer Review. I’ve consolidated my reviews (and those by other Queer Review reviewers) here so they sit in the one place. I’ve listed them in star rating order to make things easier for people considering going and added interviews we’ve run with…