Lainie hears voices and takes the role
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.
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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.
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Girl on the Train keeps suspense on track
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.
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Canberra’s town crier dead at 58
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.
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Rare Shakespeare challenge for youthful cast
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.
Mockingbird Theatre Company's production of the thriller The Girl on the Train threatens to throw audiences right into the centre of the action, reeports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"Because it’s devised as a radio broadcast, the actors’ voices are the most important aspect of their performances." LEN POWER reviews The Wind In The Willows, adapted as a live radio play.
"This Tennessee Williams play about a simple moment that might be in anyone’s memory delved deeply into complex relationships that, with a little imagination, might well still be relevant today," writes JOE WOODWARD.
A fascinating pilot program unfolded at The Street Theatre on Wednesday night, using interactive theatre to probe one of the most contentious issues facing young people: online misogyny and the influence of the manosphere.
Canberra Theatre Centre has joined forces with three of Australia's leading regional performing arts organisations in a landmark partnership designed to create more large scale Australian theatre.
"This delightfully absurd comedy is satirical, poking fun at Cold War paranoia, the joys of quiche as well as American society and attitudes of the 1950s," writes reviewer LEN POWER.
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Kerosene, a powerful monologue about growing up and the fires within, performed by actor Winsome Ogilvie and directed by Lachlan Houen.
"Suzy Eddie Izzard will be at The Playhouse soon with her sensational production, The Tragedy of Hamlet – yes, that’s Shakespeare’s Hamlet," writes HELEN MUSA.
