It's an open question as to whether theatre director Cate Clelland would've been helped if she'd seen the film "Lantana" before directing Andrew Bovell’s play "Speaking in Tongues", on which the movie was based, writes HELEN MUSA.
Just when you thought you'd had about as much Jane Austen as you could take, the Wharf’s scriptwriters Jonathan Biggins and Drew Forsythe have come up with "Pride in Prejudice" as the title of their satirical revue for 2023.
Reviewers attending "West Side Story" were issued with a set of "guidelines", which looked like an effort to pre-empt and restrict negative comment, an attempt at media manipulation, writes a furious "CityNews" arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Long-lost brothers, mistaken identity, madness, betrayal, substituting one woman for another – no, it's not Shakespeare, it's the latest production by the ANU’s Za Kabuki Club.
Director Lexi Sekuless is happy to go along with the Bard’s version of events as she embarks on a series of productions looking at the Henry VI plays, staging them rock 'n' roll/heavy-metal style, reports HELEN MUSA.