Tag: Australian Premiere
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Hadestown (Theatre Royal) ★★★★½
The first time I saw Hadestown, I fell in love. Now that the show has arrived in Sydney, I’ve fallen in love all over again.
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Cruise (KXT on Broadway) ★★★★★
Jack Holden’s Olivier Award-nominated one-man play, Cruise, is a time-jumping, bar-hopping treasure that achieves in 90 minutes what The Inheritance takes almost seven hours to accomplish.
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Pride & Prejudice (Old Fitz) ★★½
This lo-fi adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic witty romance Pride & Prejudice has all the hallmarks of a fringe darling.
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The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale (State Theatre) ★★
As we approached the third hour, I was rooting for Sauron to win.
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern (Sydney Opera House) ★★★½
What exactly is The Twenty-Sided Tavern? It’s a live show mixed with a traditional game of D&D whose direction is determined by the roll of the dice or, occasionally, the whims of the audience.
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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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Sweat (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★
Of the Pulitzer Prize winning plays on Sydney stages right now, STC’s Sweat and Belvoir’s August: Osage County, you can guess which one I’d rewatch last.
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Dear Evan Hansen (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★½
Dear Evan Hansen is a shamelessly mawkish show of radio-friendly pop hits… that’s not a flaw, that’s its superpower.
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Titanique (The Grand Electric) ★★★★
It’s all seamen and Céline fucking Dion in Sydney at the moment. Full review on The Queer Review.
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Arlington (Seymour Centre) ★★★★
Arlington will be divisive – multiple people walked out of the opening night performance. That rarely happens
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