“Grounding and connective in a way social media and the inter web at large can and will never be.” From across the Tasman, a deeply personal, multi-media story.

The Secret River is as close as it gets to textual healing. Kate Grenville’s 2005 novel on Australian race relations is even more alive on the Sydney Theatre stage.

If you’ve ever been a pimply, gangly teenager, you’ll relate to School Dance. And remember the embarrassing soundtrack. Sydney Theatre Company’s festival offering is nostalgic fun.

You haven’t seen anything like Eraritjaritjaka. Brought to Australia as part of the Sydney Festival, Switzerland’s Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne delivers a spellbinding multi-media ride.

In Melbourne, freshly minted with plaudits from the Adelaide Fringe Festival, including a gong for Best Cabaret, salacious musical duo East End Cabaret arrive to deflower four shows worth of local audiences with 45 minutes of lascivious comedy. Bernadette Byrne (Jennifer Byrne) and Victor Victoria (Victoria Falconer-Pritchard) deliver a high-powered feminine Flight of the Conchords [...]

I’m not sure it’s theatre. And neither is he. But neither of us really care. We both know it’s theatrical, but it’s probably more like the most engaging, entertaining university-standard history lesson you’re ever going to get. It’s not just the way he tells it. When you peer even a little bit into the history [...]

It’s not exactly Tubular Bells. Well, not as I remember it. But then, it’s a very long time since I listened to it. Mad multi-instrumentalists Daniel Holdsworth and Aidan Roberts have really come up with a kind of Variations On Tubular Bells, in which they play over 20 instruments, between them, live. The instruments may [...]

Compressing the history of the universe into 90-odd minutes of compelling theatre is a reasonably ambitious task to set. Yet this is precisely what Belgian company Ontroerend Goed has done with A History Of Everything. Director Alex Devriendt and performer Joeri Smet have collaborated on the fast-paced text and, thanks to its construction, we know how [...]

It’s probably not often a going-on-400-year-old play can make you squirm. Oh sure, Shakespeare can do that, as he presents his moral dilemmas. But in terms of sheer, in-your-face, cut-to-the-chase direct confrontation, John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore comes on strong, like a kind of Jacobean Scorsese. And, God only knows, Ford had hard [...]