Star filmmaker on a roll in the world of theatre
Documentary filmmaker and 2018 Canberra CityNews Artist of the Year Kim Beamish makes his directorial debut at The Mill Theatre in coming weeks, reports HELEN MUSA.
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"It is a rare day you will attend a work of dramatic art that is so visually stunning, so carefully produced, and so precisely executed. This show is beauty magnified." Reviewer ARNE FEALING was quite taken by Gaslight.
"There's not much more to be said about the extraordinary NZ theatre troupe A Slightly Isolated Dog than that they are absolutely hilarious." HELEN MUSA reviews A Slightly Isolated Dog's performance of The Trojan War.
Tempo Theatre is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a new and updated stage production of Mother and Son, written by Geoffrey Atherden and directed by long-time Tempo member Michael Weston, reports HELEN MUSA.
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Provocative Fourteen’s story of self discovery
BILL STEPHENS reviews Fourteen, which tells the true story of a year of self-discovery for an effeminate year 9 student attending an all-boys school in the quiet Queensland beach community of Yeppoon.
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Behind the scenes, with the bridesmaids
"The bride and groom are never seen, but behind the scenes it’s the bridesmaids who argue over relationships and attitudes." ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Five Women Wearing the Same Dress.
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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.
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.
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.
Playwright Peter Quilter is not exactly a household name, but he probably should be, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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.
