Manipulative rotter who can turn on the charm
“What a rotter,” actor Toby Schmidt says of his character, Jack, the handsome manipulative husband in the play Gaslight, coming to The Playhouse," writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Theatre
SAMARA PURNELL reviews a Dance Week performance by Warehouse Circus called We're Home.
"It’s certainly a play for those who enjoy shows about theatre behind the scenes," writes ALANNA MACLEAN in her review of The Actress, playing at the Rep Theatre until May 18.
Fawlty Towers The Play has been adapted for the stage by John Cleese, who co-wrote and starred in the original TV series playing Basil Fawlty.
Update
Canberra actor John Cuffe dies aged 91
One of the last remaining luminaries from the explosion of professional theatre in Canberra during the 1970s has died after complications from lung cancer. He was 91.
Theatre
Is the leading lady leading us on?
Playwright Peter Quilter is not exactly a household name, but he probably should be, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Theatre
Holiday musical off to Madagascar
Director Nina Stevenson is at it again, with her company Pied Piper's school holiday production of Madagascar JR - A Musical Adventure, a family show with all the characters from the movie.
"Heather Mitchell’s performance as the legendary US lawyer and judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg is poetry in motion." SIMONE PENKETHMAN reviews RGB: Of Many, One.
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews The Shoe-Horn Sonata, at The Mill Theatre, Fyshwick.
"Karen Vickery’s translation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull makes for a highly relatable and accessible text heightened by strong and, at times, very powerful performances from the cast," writes reviewer JOE WOODWARD.
It’s more than a quarter of a century since John Misto’s The Shoe Horn Sonata was staged at The Street Theatre in Canberra, but now it’s been revived by director Lexi Sekuless at Mill Theatre in Dairy Road during the lead up to Anzac Day.
Making it on to the Great White Way is not as easy as fiction would have it, but a former Canberra performer Romy Turner is giving it her best shot.
Anton Chekhov’s play Seagull is a flagship for modern theatre and it's about to be staged at the ACT Hub in Kingston, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Helios swept in for two performances fresh from the Adelaide Fringe and proved to be a fascinating interconnected tale, writes reviewer ALANA MACLEAN.
"Emma Gibson has come up with a gripping, unpleasant narrative. Despite that unpleasantness, it kept me on the edge of my seat for 65 minutes." HELEN MUSA reviews After Rebecca at the ACTHub, Kingston.
LEN POWER reviews Eulogiser Bunny, written and performed by Cameron Ribbons, at The Q, Queanbeyan.
There's no other way of putting it – Canberra playwright Dylan Van Den Berg is hot property in Australian theatre circles, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
SIMONE PENKETHMAN reviews Happy Meals, Happy Kids, the debut play by local playwright and director Jade Breen.
ARNE FEALING reviews the Lakespeare production of Shakespeare's Henry V.
