Discovering the challenge of magical thinking
When it comes to tour-de-force acting roles, there are few parts more demanding than that in the stage version of Joan Didion’s memoir, “The Year of Magical Thinking”, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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Theatre reviewer JOE WOODWARD spends "“Twenty Minutes with the Devil”.
"The Initiation" is lively and funny; dramatic and dynamic; never turgid or self-indulgent, says reviewer SIMONE PENKETHMAN.
"When the curtains opened on Canberra Rep’s new production of 'Arsenic and Old Lace', the audience applauded the fabulous multi-level set by Andrew Kay. Unfortunately, that was the high point of the evening," writes reviewer LEN POWER.
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Wonderful Williamson but, oh, how it’s aged
SIMONE PENKETHMAN reviews a new production of David Williamson's '80s classic "Emerald City".
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Sharp script promises laughs in Williamson hit
When it comes to depicting bad parenting on stage, nobody does it quite so well as playwright David Williamson in “Emerald City”, writes HELEN MUSA.
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Trouble brews as the aunties take to the arsenic
Canberra Rep's latest extravaganza, the murderous black farce, "Arsenic and Old Lace", is bound to get up quite a few noses, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Canberra’s theatre community is mourning the unexpected death of Liz Bradley, a true Canberra theatre stalwart, who died on her birthday yesterday, June 6.
A night of horror on Black Mountain is at the centre of a new play soon to be staged by Canberra Youth Theatre as part of its 50th anniversary season.
Lano and Woodley's fast-moving spoof of "Moby Dick", first seen at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, is about to hit the whale-sized stage of the Canberra Theatre.
Reviewer HELEN MUSA sees virtue in the strengths of community theatre.
This story was originally posted in August, but the play was postponed because of covid. It’s back at The Street, June 17-25.
"This was not theatre for the faint-hearted or the dull-witted," writes reviewer HELEN MUSA after seeing Rebus Theatre's “Chemical ReACTion”.
"Thoughtful, witty and entertaining 'Become the One' explores a romantic relationship between a high-profile AFL footballer and his openly gay partner, written from the perspective of the partner," writes reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
Reviewer JOHN LOMBARD finds himself in a a slapstick physical poem celebrating the history of a house and memories of an adored father.
JOHN LOMBARD reviews "Jane Eyre" and declares it a "ghost-train ride of delicious gothic fun".
One of Australia’s leading independent theatre companies is coming to Belco Arts next week with a romantic comedy that brings a topical subject out of the closet.
A house is the main character in an original new play commissioned as part of Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre’s “Q The Locals” program.
Director Bruce Gladwin and his cast of “The Shadow Whose Prey The Hunter Becomes” deliver a genuinely funny, acute, and thought-provoking production that also delivers an ominous and sobering message, writes reviewer SAMARA PURNELL.
