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Sarah Snook has been awarded Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play at the 78th Tony Awards for her role ...
A gorgeous night at the theatre! For their first date with the Roslyn Packer Theatre Pinchgut Opera chose possibly the most ...
Leah Shelton knows this all too well. Her 2022 one-woman show, BATSHIT, is an ode to her grandmother Gwen and to all women ...
It’s hard to watch with 2025 vision; it’s harder still to be reminded that women are still overwhelmingly not believed when it comes to acts of abuse and that their pain is misdiagnosed or undervalued ...
Above – Brea Macey and Eleni Cassimatis. Photo – Phil Erbacher. Hamlet is not healthy, not developed enough to know about affection and love. Also he is a coward, a smouldering blonde brooder and ...
The capacity audience at Downstairs at the Maj certainly got their money’s worth on Thursday night. The nine piece excellent orchestra hit the ground running and “chased that tiger” through a rip ...
Sass and soul, certainly, and a lot of heart, hurt, hope and healing, Mother May We plunges into a pool of inter-generational pain and trauma, tempts drowning by sorrow and loss, splashes around, then ...
Tracy Mann deep dives into diva in David Williamson’s latest play, ARIA. What a carve up. Not quite the kingdom bequest of King Lear, yet there are resonance and refrains as matriarch, Monique, ...
Above – cast of Hadestown. Cover – Abigail Adriano and Noah Mullins. Photos – Lisa Tomasetti Orpheus and Eurydice’s story is the kind of tragic romance that keeps people returning, hoping that this ...
To pee or not to pee. It sounds like a lowbrow take on the infamous Hamlet quote. One that a philistine would utter while their cronies scoff and drink mead and the thespians nearby cringe while ...
Don’t you loathe the word dramedy. It sounds dreary. I’ll go, begrudgingly, with comedy drama, but really, when all is said and done, all comedy is drama, with its conflicts, contradictions and ...
Above – Kat Stewart. Cover – David Whiteley and Kat Stewart. Photos – Eugene Hyland. We’re all busy. Rushing from meeting to meeting, overloading our senses with so many screens that we can’t even ...