If you're going to spend an hour or so with someone, there aren't many better choices than Tom Sharah. With a strong sense of ease on stage that borders on casual and conversational " it's l…
Sport for Jove has been taking Sydney by storm with its almost uncanny ability to breathe new life into Shakespeare’s classics. For the first time, helmed by Adam Cook, the company is …
Something is happening in Sydney musical theatre. 2014 is a moment, a movement, for the genre: Hayes Theatre Co dipped a toe in a pool of still water and rippling outward are its effects; wi…
Hedda Gabler is one of the great realist plays, and the role of Hedda is one of the great roles for women because she isn't, simply, a woman or a wife. She is complicated; she is bored and d…
In Every Second, newly opened by Darlinghurst Theatre Co at the Eternity Playhouse, the question of the day is about love and IVF: can the former survive the challenges of the latter? Is a b…
There’s not much question about it anymore: Toby Francis is the new rockstar of independent musical theatre. The ex-punk with a heart of gold spent his last cabaret digging into the mu…
David Campbell came home to the Hayes as part of the Hayes Cabaret Festival, and I don’t think we knew how much we missed him until he had returned. Campbell, a household figure probab…
At the Ensemble, Mark Kilmurry is staging, he thinks, a revolution. His Richard III is hghly stylised. It’s structured as though it’s an underground, on-the-fly production; a…
The 6.30pm preview performance on Sunday 29th June of Cameron Mackintosh's of Les Misérables is being rescheduled due to cast illness. But fear not! It will be replaced by a later…
Hilary Cole is the newest star in the Sydney musical theatre scene, and she certainly burns the brightest. She made her debut in Carrie – stunning audience members and critics alike wi…
In Sydney, Squabbalogic is our little engine that could. The dedicated crew have lit a spark in the in the independent musical theatre scene around town, creating exquisitely-crafted product…
Exclaim Theatre Co, a new venture created by AIM graduates, seeks to bridge a gap or two at the beginning of an actor’s career by staging shows for new alumni to play in. Their first c…
ABBA is such a cultural touchstone that there's approximately one billion cover bands, not to mention the long-lasting stage show and the impossibly mystifyingly cast film. Australia warmed …
Lucille Ball: a modern icon of comedy, a sitcom pioneer, the first woman to be a studio executive, and the first woman to be visibly pregnant on television. She's also the subject of a new c…
Toby Francis finds it hard to pick a side. Canberra born and raised, he fell into two different worlds with vigor: punk music, and musical theatre. Polarising as it sounds, Toby loves them b…
One of the best things the Hayes Theatre has brought to Sydney this year is "a month of Sundays", an initiative for alternative musical acts on Sunday nights. So far, we've seen up-and-comin…
If media scions stopped being a relentless force for scrutiny and parody, CJ Johnson’s 2005 play The Young Tycoons probably wouldn’t be twice-revived already. In a Murdoch/Packer…
In 2004, Broadway superstar Audra McDonald launched a new song cycle at Carnegie Hall. Called The Seven Deadly Sins, it revolved around different works for the soprano voice, structured as a…
Over at the Lyric, a new Australian, Sydney-set musical is telling the story of a family legacy, of art and love. It's Strictly Ballroom; you've probably heard of it. In Potts Point, in a mu…
David Harris, as one of Australia's leading men of musical theatre, is one of only a small club of make performers with name recognition and instant credibility. Our leading men are few and …
On 17 May, the National Institute of Dramatic Art is throwing its doors open for one day for anyone and everyone to find out more about everything the centre has to offer " from training awa…
With all the international theatre talk of late eclipsed by the Tony Award nominations, it’s important to not forget the West End’s own Awards, the Oliviers. Australia has hosted…
Dame Vera Lynn was known as the “Force’s Sweetheart.” She is credited with inspiring the nation with her patriotic wartime songs during World War II. Now, one of our most c…
Spanning a career of four decades, the tumultuous life of the enigmatic Christine McVie is coming to Glen Street Theatre told in 80 music-packed minutes. Go Your Own Way, the acclaime…
At the Seymour Centre during National Reconciliation Week 2014, awareness will be raised of both historical and contemporary experiences of the first Australians. Part of the varied and vivi…