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BWW Review: The Fragile Foundations Of Love And Life Are Tested In MACHU PICCHU
MACHU PICCHU looks at the unpredictability of life as plans and perfection are derailed....
BWW Review: ALMOST HOME Takes Us Over the Rainbow at Foundry 616
It wouldn't be Mardi Gras without a tribute to legend community icon Judy Garland, but only a few have the claim Daniel Downing's show has - epic vocal talent and a perspective too often forgotten. Through the eyes of Mickey Deans, Garland's husband at the time of her death, Downing strikes a stunni...
BWW Review: DISNEY UNDER THE STARS is Everything You Wished For at Sydney Opera House
Two reality TV stars. Two theatre icons. An orchestra as magical as the music they're playing. It was always going to be a recipe for delight and marvel for young and old. What Chong Lim and the gang have created here though is something one-of-a-kind, so don't think your Spotify playlist will suffi...
BWW REVIEW: ARCADIA is A Dance Between Science And Sensitivity as Academics Expose The Predictability and Chaos Of Humanity
Intertwining Romanticism and Reason, Tom Stoppard's ARCADIA explores two worlds, inhabiting the same space, two centuries apart....
BWW Review: Australian Brandenburg Orchestra's 2016 Season Opener MAURICE STEGER: RECORDER REVOLUTIONARY Is A Sensational Showcase Of the Simple Instrument.
The energetic, engaging and enthusiastic Maurice Steger joins with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra to delight audiences with the amazingly complex music that he can produce from the seemingly simple instrument for RECORDER REVOLUTIONARY....
BWW Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Is A Fabulously Fun Feast For The Senses
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, the dark and twisted rock musical about love, desire and a mysterious pot plant thrilled the opening night audience at Hayes Theatre....
BWW Review: Goals Get Blurred In The Fight For Justice And A Socialist Society In THE BLIND GIANT IS DANCING
Stephen Sewell's THE BLIND GIANT IS DANCING exposes the greed and corruption that got in the way of socialist ideals in 1970's and 80's Australian politics....
BWW Reviews: THE RITZ BRINGS BAWDY BROADWAY DOWN UNDER at New Theatre
A man walks into a bathhouse...now there's an angle to an old classic we hadn't heard before! And New Theatre's The Ritz is nothing but twists on classics in this madcap tale of a man on the run from his murderous brother-in-law who accidentally hides out in a 1970s gay sauna thinking it's a swanky ...
BWW Review: THE PUNTER'S SIREN Captures The Insecurities And Neuroses The Plague Everyone In Love And Lust
Gina Schien has created a work that speaks to all people, regardless of gender or persuasion in the fabulously funny THE PUNTER'S SIREN....
BWW Review: ALL MY LOVE A GREAT AUSTRALIAN LOVE STORY at Riverside Theatre's Parramatta
What is it about love that captures the artist so wholly and capitalises so perpetually? Why is it that no two things written about love seem to be the same, or have the same resonance, but every new contribution exists as a thrilling dimension to this emotion seemingly essential to human life? In t...
BWW Review: Manipulation, Scheming And Deception Get In The Way Of Love in LUISA MILLER
Giuseppe Verdi's LUISA MILLER exposes the intrigue, in its darkest form, that threatens the purest of love....
BWW Review: DEFYING GRAVITY Drops the House Down at Theatre Royal Sydney
It was every music theatre nerd's dream come true: Broadway legends from Australia and the States converging in Sydney to give intimate treatment to the songs of one of our generation's most acclaimed songwriters. Stephen Schwartz's inimitable music is almost unarguably sure to have passed your lips...
BWW Review: THE GIRLIE SHOW is 'Madge-ical' at Old 505 Theatre
In lieu of the amount of times members of communities gay, straight, between, beyond have been teased with the promise of Madonna returning to Australia, anything will do to get one's Material Girl fix, and those of you who simply cannot wait for the latest carrot-dangle of her tour this time next m...
BWW Review: THE PRIDE Examines The Expression And Repression Of Love In Two Different Eras And Explores The Progression And Distance Still To Go For Acceptance.
Confronting, heartbreaking, and also hilarious, THE PRIDE draws the audience into two worlds, 50 years apart, highlighting that the horrific denial of love was not such a distant memory and still remains a challenge....
BWW Reviews: YEAR OF THE FAMILY Surprises and Scandalises at King's Cross Theatre
Tooth and Sinew theatre company have once again shown their penchant for controversy and passion in their latest offering, an abstraction of renowned Scottish playwright Anthony Neilson's Year of the Family. When an audience member steps into the domestic environment of strangers, they always know t...
BWW Review: GODSPELL REIMAGINED Revives The Classic Rock Opera For A New Generation
Stephen Schwartz (Music and Lyrics) and John-Michael Tebelak's (Book) popular 70's Rock Opera is refreshed and revived in 2015 with GODSPELL REIMAGINED....
BWW Review: THE SECRET RIVER Is An Important Work, Presented With Honesty And Sensitivity
Andrew Bovell's Helpmann Award winning adaptation of Kate Grenville's multiple award winning book, THE SECRET RIVER returns to the Sydney Theatre Company stage. The fictional work, based on history, challenges the audience to examine how they understand, misunderstand, react, interact and judge the...
BWW Review: Drawing On The Comedy Of 1920's Silent Films THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Is A Lighthearted Opera Filled With Familiar Music
Opera Australia's THE BARBER OF SEVILLE is presented with the wonderful slapstick physical humor of the early movies as the comic tale unfolds....
BWW Review: AUS Premiere of THE WHALE Gives Hungry Audiences Something New at Old Fitz Theatre
It would be best not to use the phrase 'whale of a time' when discussing the potential enjoyment of Red Line Productions' 'The Whale' showing at Old Fitz Theatre. Chiefly because puns do not usually denote a refined critic. Rest assured, this one's a good one....
BWW Review: The 2016 LYSICRATES PRIZE Awarded To Mary Rachel Brown Following Audience Vote
In the tradition of the Ancient Greek Dionysia Festival, the LYSICRATES PRIZE promotes new works by awarding an Australian playwright following an Audience vote...
BWW Review: The Sydney Symphony Orchestra Joins With Diana Krall For The Sydney Leg Of Her WALLFLOWER WORLD TOUR
Diana Krall's deep smoky jazz fills Sydney Opera House's Concert Hall as she teams up with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra on the first Australian stop of her WALLFLOWER WORLD TOUR....
BWW Review: Exploring Australia's Past, THE GOLDEN AGE Challenges The Notion That One Society Is Better Than Another
Director Kip Williams brings Louis Nowra's THE GOLDEN AGE to life with sensitivity and simplicity....
BWW Review: Bizet's THE PEARLFISHERS Is Given A New Interpretation for Opera Australia's 2016 Summer Season
Director Michael Gow's staging of Georges Bizet's THE PEARLFISHERS brings the story of love, friendship and jealously into Colonial India....
BWW Review: WARREN FAHEY 40 WAYS TO LOVE YOUR CITY TAKES YOU BACK IN TIME at The Famous Spiegeltent
Warren Fahey returns to Sydney Festival to bring a retrospective to both intrigue and bemuse. To celebrate Sydney Festival's ruby anniversary, long-time historian, performer and orator Fahey takes his contemporaries through a nostalgic journey through Australia's history and Sydney Festival's place ...
BWW Review: ALL THE SEX I'VE EVER HAD Liberates and Scintillates in Festival Highlight at Sydney Opera House, Drama Theatre
To open on a personal note, that was hands-down one of the best nights of my life. I swore an oath not to dish the delicious anecdotes or remarkable, revelatory stories, so you'll just have to see it for yourself tonight or tomorrow! Meantime, here's a little of what you can expect....
Videos
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Steel Magnolias Canberra Theatre Centre (6/17-6/21) |
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Beyond the Beehive: Amy Winehouse's Musical Mastery Kingston Arts Centre (7/31-7/31) |
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Pride Fest Qtopia Sydney (6/01-6/30) |
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Tootsie Teatro - at The Italian Forum (5/26-6/21) |
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Two Weeks Illawarra Performing Arts Centre (5/28-5/30) |
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Flare With The Metropolitan Orchestra on June 6th in Sydney The Verbrugghen Hall (6/06-6/06) |
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Disney Presents The Lion King - Audio Described Performance Capitol Theatre, Sydney (8/23-8/23) |
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Confetti & Chaos - Pokolbin Hunter Valley Resort & Farm (8/20-8/20) |
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Live at Lunch - Ancient Letters The Concourse Concert Hall (6/03-6/03) |
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Anastasia Sydney Lyric Theatre (4/07-7/19) VIDEOS |
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