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More More Sport For Jove This year marks an important anniversary – the birth of William Shakespeare 450 years ago. In the next month, you won’t be able to throw...
More More Noises Off Michael Frayn’s Noises Offmay be one big gimmick, but what a gimmick. The play is split into three acts. In the first, a second-rate troupe...
More More When Dad Married Fury David Williamson’s latest is full of recognisable Williamson types: venal, grasping inner-city conservatives, as well as a couple of good lefties who get all the...
More More Privates On Parade King St’s New Theatre had a good year in 2013, nominated at the Sydney Theatre awards for its production of Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem. This year,...
More More Sweet Charity One of the truisms of musical theatre is that it’s big. Big emotions, big outfits, a chorus line three-deep and stars belting out anthems to...
More More The Shadow King Michael Kantor’s do-over of King Lear at Carriageworks recasts the play as a story of warring families in remote indigenous Australia. Kantor transforms the barn-like...
More More 47 Ronin Keanu Reeves is one of those lucky actors, limited but likeable, with the knack for starring in seminal popcorn. Point Break, Speed, The Matrix –...
More More Maltesers Moonlight Cinema For all the talk about the declining popularity of the moviegoing experience, pecked at from all sides by DVDs and downloads, Sydney seems to be...
