An all-male production of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange offers a terrifying performance from Martin McCreadie. But its dance beat is too West Side Story for the brutality of the story.
READ MOREREVIEW: Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret | City Recital Hall, Sydney
The Australian Chamber Orchestra takes a walk through the Weimar Republic with a couple of sensationally sassy guides — cabaret star Meow Meow and the incomparable Barry Humphries.
READ MOREREVIEW: Managing Carmen | The Playhouse, Brisbane
Sorry, David Williamson, we’re ready for your critique, but your new Queensland Theatre Company play about a cross-dressing footballer just isn’t very good.
READ MOREREVIEW: Ovo (Cirque Du Soleil) | Moore Park, Sydney
Cirque Du Soleil is more business than entertainment, but its latest touring production Ovo has plenty of heart for the young and young-at-heart.
READ MOREREVIEW: West Side Story | Regent Theatre, Melbourne
David Letterman does this bit where he talks about gang violence in New York — it’s out of control, they’re terrorising the streets, etc; he builds it up beautifully — and then plays a scene from West Side Story of the Jets prancing down the street. Oh, how I laugh… I mean, for a story [...]
READ MOREREVIEW: Waiting For Godot (drinking game version) | Comedy Theatre, Melbourne
The Theatre Royal Haymarket Company have launched their celebrated production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne, the first stop on a three-month tour through Australia and New Zealand. Ian McKellen (Estragon) and Roger Rees (Vladamir), beaming in their evening rags, bring each a bindle full of tenderness to Beckett’s [...]
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