Uproarious show of black humour and dad jokes
Hawker College is in the throes of staging its big annual show, Peter and the Starcatcher, a prequel to JM Barrie's Peter Pan, reports HELEN MUSA.
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"Daisy Pulls It Off examines the life of a scholarship girl, bright and cheerful Daisy Meredith, who arrives at a posh girls’ school where she encounters snobbery and a degree of savagery," writes reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.
Canberra REP is stepping back into the world of midnight feasts, secret codes, hockey finals and boarding-school adventures with Daisy Pulls It Off, Denise Deegan’s Olivier Award-winning comedy, opening this Friday.
LEN POWER reviews theatre company Bloomshed's take on George Orwell's Animal Farm, setting the story in rural Australia and giving the animals a voice that sounds "uncomfortably like the language of Australian labour politics".
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Fire at theatre affects coming stage show
A fire on Monday at the National Theatre in Braidwood has necessitated a change of venue for the coming show, 1966 And All That.
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‘Bombshells’ deliver moments of comic acuity
SAMARA PURNELL reviews the local reboot of Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith's "Bombshells" by director Jordan Best’s production.
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Second coming for the Gospel According to Paul
Jonathan Biggins is back in his celebrated role as Paul Keating and, as he tells arts editor HELEN MUSA, audiences can't get enough of the 're-tweaked' second coming of The Gospel According to Paul.
Saplings is a "gentle youth theatre piece that probes the experiences of a group of young indigenous people struggling with an urban society that doesn’t seem to give them much", reviews ALANNA MACLEAN.
When actor Lainie Hart first read Joanna Murray-Smith's Bombshells around the dinner table at director Jordan Best's home, she found herself unexpectedly moved, reports HELEN MUSA.
The Australian Theatre for Young People is bringing its production of Saplings to The Q, Queanbeyan, a work which has been described as authentic, raw, brutal and deeply moving, reports HELEN MUSA.
GRACE CASSIDY reviews one of William Shakespeare's lesser-known works - The Winter's Tale, directed by Heidi Silberman and being performed at The Mill Theatre.
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews the nearly three hours long epic, The Jungle and the Sea. Directed by S Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack, the play offers a "deeply felt treatment" of the civil war in Sri Lanka.
Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel's adaptation and Chris Baldock's direction of the psychological thriller 'The Girl On The Train' leaves the audience with "an uncomfortable feeling", reviews LEN POWER.
Canberra's theatre community is mourning the sudden death of actor, town crier and Guinness World Record holder Joseph "Joe" McGrail-Bateup, who died at his Gordon home on July 31. He was 58, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The Mill Theatre is taking on one of Shakespeare's more rarely-produced plays, The Winter's Tale, as its first youth production.
"There’s a few modernising tweaks to the language but those of us mouthing along with the dialogue weren’t worried by that, so good is the energy and the fun." ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Izzard: The Tragedy of Hamlet.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reviews veteran Bharatanatyam dancer Anandavalli's blindfolded performance as part of her central role in the Australian play The Jungle and the Sea at The Playhouse.
The feature film responsible for Australian sayings such as ''Tell him he's dreaming'' is being launched as a stage production.
Aspiring seeing-eye dogs have visited a renowned arts venue, highlighting accessibility measures to help blind and low-vision people.
