15 stories by "Elissa Blake"
Starring Rosamund Pike as a judge whose son is accused of sexual assault, a filmed version of the hit play lands in UK and Australian cinemas this month
When Prima Facie premiered at the Sta…
The maverick magicians return to the Sydney Opera House and beyond with a delightful new tour that emphasises the audience " and the doubters
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Brendan Cowell, Ewen Leslie and Toby Schmitz insist they're not playing themselves in Hamlet Camp " where actors go to recover not from drugs or sex, but Shakespeare
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Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera tells the incredible story of the tiger-loving partners, from traumatic childhoods to Las Vegas stardom " and their shocking career-ending show
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Sydney Opera HouseChoreographer's queer, condensed version dissolves the boundaries of the stage and, in a brilliant passage of dancing, the walls of the Joan Sutherland theatre itself
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Cast as George Washington, in his first major musical, Googoorewon Knox says 'it's important to see a First Nation fella doing such a big thing'
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The playwright's one-woman legal drama has gone from Australia to the West End and now Broadway. She talks about juggling law and theatre, and longing for home
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Kip Williams has revolutionised the stage with his use of 'cine-theatre', in shows such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and Jekyll and Hyde. Ahead of his take on The Tempest, he talks about hi…
After 44 years as Australia's national circus, members voted to reject the reform proposed by its funding partners " reluctantly choosing to close shop instead
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It is the hit musical inspired by a Canadian town's goodwill during 9/11. Twenty years on, its real-life characters say they're 'like family' now
This September marks 20 years since the atta…
The first major Australian arts festival of 2021 will be a litmus test for those to come as it navigates shifting sands around the city's recent Covid outbreak
Sydney festival, the first maj…
For students of Sydney's National Institute for Dramatic Art, it hasn't exactly been the year they signed up for
Final-year acting student Alex Stamell was deep into rehearsals for Will Eno'…
Grahame Best sees more than 100 shows a year and rises to his feet to applaud every one. Now under lockdown, he's suffering
Grahame Best keeps a ghost light burning 24/7 in his Wollongong ho…
Of all the theatrical forms, musical theatre is slowest to recognise it has a gender problem, says the multi-award-winning Broadway composer Jeanine Tesori​ ahead of the Australian pr…
Despite the gloomy statistics, female directors and playwrights are staking out new ground on stage.