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REVIEW: Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica ... Fine entertainment from arguably Australia's pre-eminent playwright for nigh on 40 years. MORE
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REVIEW: The Ballad of Backbone Joe ... This is not sophisticated, subtle humour. It is delightfully silly, often nonsensical, and terrific fun. MORE
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REVIEW: Leviathan ... A warts-and-all story that will certainly raise the profile of theatre in the ’burbs. MORE
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REVIEW: Bare Witness ... Life, from both sides of the photojournalist’s lens, in all its awful frailty and savagery. MORE
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REVIEW: The Trial ... It is what it is. And in this production, what it is ... is, well, amazing. MORE
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NEWS: Sydney's Ensemble Theatre marks 40 years of Williamson with two new plays from the Australian master during its 2011 season. MORE
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REVIEW: Yellow Moon ... Peppered with humour, layered with violence and heartbreak, this is a hell of a ride. MORE
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NEWS: Impro Melbourne’s popular flagship show Theatresports™ is steaming into town for its 25th season. MORE
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REVIEW: Rain Man ... Mitchell’s version of Raymond is more conscious and creative. This is a sensitive performance that is both physically and emotionally eloquent. MORE
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NEWS: The Sydney Fringe hits the Boiler Room with an exciting sextet of new Australian theatre. MORE
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REVIEW: The Possibilities ... John Rozentals goes home amazed and disturbed by the complexity and depth of the play. MORE
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NEWS: STC's Our Town takes a heart-warming look at daily life in smalltown America. MORE
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NEWS: When zombies are roaming the streets, the only safe place is At The Drive-In ... a challenging performance by young Australians. MORE
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NEWS: Production companies from three states combine to present a new take on Franz Kafka's immortal The Trial. MORE
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REVIEW: The Schelling Point... Geraldine Worthington finds an original, humorous, expansive play about the politics of chance, logic and rationality and the male pysche. MORE
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REVIEW: Woyzeck ... For Sandra Bowden, a dynamic, visceral and sensual piece of theatre, enhanced by music, movement and texture. MORE
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REVIEW: Princess Ivona ... Geraldine Worthington heads east for a rewarding, intimate theatre experience. MORE
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REVIEW: Gwen in Purgatory ... Geraldine Worthington reports on a witty, potent comedy and a vicious representation of the modern family and our aging-population problem. MORE
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REVIEW: Electronic City and Fatboy ... two of the best performances Geraldine Worthington has seen on the Australian stage in the past decade. MORE
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POSTED: 21 JUL 10
REVIEW: Like a Fishbone ... The performances are skilful, compelling and mannered, providing the mouthpieces for intentionally opposing views. MORE
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POSTED: 18 JUL 10
REVIEW: [title of show] ... a funny, clever and original take on the creative process, with some quite poignant and honest observations about the pursuit of one’s dreams. MORE
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POSTED: 15 JUL 10
REVIEW: Dirty Butterfly ... Incredibly effective, moving and thought provoking, and way too important an issue to be sanitised. MORE
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POSTED: 06 JUL 10
REVIEW: Long Day's Journey into Night ... This isn’t always an easy piece of theatre to consume, but ultimately it’s an enormously satisfying one. MORE
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POSTED: 01 JUL 10
REVIEW: Shakespeare's R&J ... some wonderful, convincing acting in this courageous, left-field take on Romeo and Juliet. MORE
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POSTED: 30 JUN 10
REVIEW: The Gruffalo ... A faithful adaptation to the text and images of the book, and precisely timed to maintain youthful interest without boring the grown-ups. MORE
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POSTED: 30 JUN 10
REVIEW: Mr Freezy ... Loads of fun in a larger-than-life story where everyone learns to work together to defeat a common enemy. MORE
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POSTED: 27 JUN 10
NEWS: The Wharf goes green as STC aims for sustainability. MORE
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POSTED: 24 JUN 10
REVIEW: Push Up ... Reveals the duplicity, dishonesty, fear and sense of inadequacy that is the subtext of this critique of modern capitalism. MORE
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POSTED: 19 JUN 10
REVIEW: Bang ... Has much to say about the more brutal realities of our world. With saying much, however, comes the danger of diluting or confounding the message. MORE
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POSTED: 19 JUN 10
NEWS: Dorota Maslowska's hitchhikers from hell return to Newtown for a second season. MORE
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POSTED: 11 JUN 10
REVIEW: The Seagull ... Poignant, powerful and as relevant to the human condition as ever. MORE
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POSTED: 08 JUN 10
REVIEW: Oresteia ... It is hard not to be impressed by the intricacy and technical flair of this work. The ensemble's performances were uniformly solid. MORE
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POSTED: 26 MAY 10
REVIEW: Burnt ... If you admire theatrical invention and courageous theatre you should not miss this. MORE
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POSTED: 24 MAY 10
NEWS: Griffin Theatre Company appoints Sam Strong as new Artistic Director. MORE
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POSTED: 18 MAY 10
REVIEW: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot ... Utterly substantial and terrifically fun ... strips the religion and myth from the most notorious betrayal in history. MORE
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POSTED: 09 MAY 10
REVIEW: Nyuntu Ngali ... an absolute visual and aural delight ... a beautifully poignant, touching and sometimes very funny story. MORE
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POSTED: 03 MAY 10
REVIEW: The Power of Yes ... the potentially dry and impenetrably convoluted subject of the financial system becomes funny, illuminating and at times appalling. MORE
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POSTED: 29 APR 10
REVIEW: Honour ... so many different angles ever so seamlessly welded together into an extremely moving, challenging and provocative story. MORE
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POSTED: 29 MAR 10
REVIEW: Vs Macbeth ... The breakneck speed of the production is by turns exhilarating and confounding. MORE
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POSTED: 27 MAR 10
REVIEW: S-27 ... Pinteresque, marked by halting dialogue, uncertainty of identity, and an air of menace. MORE
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POSTED: 24 MAR 10
REVIEW: The Suicide ... Despite the gloomy title and the coffin, The Suicide is a rollicking farce, based on Soviet playwright Nikolai Erdman’s 1928 play. MORE
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POSTED: 03 MAR 10
REVIEW: The Beauty Queen of Leenane ... touching, delightfully appalling and very, very funny. MORE
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POSTED: 27 FEB 10
REVIEW: Thrill Me and On the Rocks ... two very different Mardi Gras offerings. MORE
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 POSTED: 12 FEB 10
REVIEW: Spring Awakening ... Wow! What an amazing, seemingly bottomless pool of outstanding young theatrical talent we have in Australia. MORE
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 POSTED: 05 FEB 10
REVIEW: Edinburgh Military Tattoo ... There were those wonderful pipes, both en masse and so alone atop the castle. MORE
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 POSTED: 16 JAN 10
REVIEW: Trolley Boys ... some genuinely funny moments, but may have fared better in a short-play festival. MORE
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 POSTED: 11 JAN 10
REVIEW: Wind in the Willows ... charming, joyful theatre for 'rabbits' of all ages. MORE
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 POSTED: 11 JAN 10
REVIEW: Monster of the Deep 3D ... a gig that leaves you light and perky, and ready to party into the evening. MORE
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 POSTED: 07 JAN 10
NEWS: Company B kicks off 2010 season with a challenge to the Baby Boomers. MORE
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 POSTED: 05 JAN 10
NEWS: Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre has some fun with Dario Fo's revisionist Elizabeth, Almost by Chance a Woman. MORE
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REVIEW: Jersey Boys ... Overtakes all its hype. It is more than thrilling, far more than wonderful, better than joyful. MORE
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NEWS: Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton cast their gaze towards Europe for Sydney Theatre Company's 2011 season. MORE
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REVIEW: Our Town ... This intelligent, seamless and touching production is unlikely to be matched — so seize the day! MORE
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REVIEW: tHe dYsFUnCKshOnalZ! ... Biting, witty and heroic, but a warning, it is punk and crude, where passion outweighs technique. MORE
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NEWS: A new Artistic Director takes the reins as Belvoir launches its 2011 season. MORE
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REVIEW: Closing Time ... a most rewarding theatrical experience. Try and catch it. MORE
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REVIEW: Quack ... when gore, zombies and axe-wielding albinos also mean innovation, potential and creativity. MORE
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NEWS: New Theatre revisits Equus, whose themes of religious and sexual obsession, ritual sacrifice and family dysfunction, caused outrage on debut in 1973. MORE
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NEWS: The Best of Broadway ... Chatswood Musical Society brings all the feelgood hits to Sydney's North Shore. MORE
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NEWS: Girlicious ... a sparkling showcase of diverse and exceptional theatre makers all linked by the theme of women: their art and their lives. MORE
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NEWS: A Woman of Berlin ... gives voice to the forgotten women of war. MORE
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REVIEW: Tusk Tusk ... The young cast are required to draw on emotions of incredible depth and power. And they do it exceedingly well, reports Sandra Bowden. MORE
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NEWS: Putting Australian student theatre back on the cultural map. MORE
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REVIEW: August: Osage County ... Do it now, says John Rozentals. Did you hear? Book now, right now. This minute. MORE
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REVIEW: Between Us ... The sort of fine, well written, well acted entertainment that John Rozentals reckons Ensemble seems to do so very well. MORE
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NEWS: B Sharp's Yellow Moon brings four new faces to the Belvoir Street Downstairs stage. MORE
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REVIEW: Golden Soil ... John Rozentals watches Australia win the kickbacks gold in this exhilarating work in progress. MORE
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NEWS: Sydney Theatre Company has won two major categories at the 2010 Green Globe Awards. MORE
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NEWS: Gombrowicz's classic adult fairytale provides a tasty theatrical dining experience at Paddington's Eastside Arts Café. MORE
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POSTED: 21 JUL 10
REVIEW: Rommy ... Coyle has reined in some of the wilder, more hallucinatory elements of Hammerhead but he’s certainly lost none of his imagination. MORE
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POSTED: 20 JUL 10
NEWS: Anthony Warlaw to star in Sydney's world premiere of Doctor Zhivago. MORE
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POSTED: 16 JUL 10
REVIEW: Crooked ... Kicks off the New Directions season in a fabulously funny fashion. MORE
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POSTED: 12 JUL 10
NEWS: Jack Thompson heads a stellar cast in Blue Mountains reading of Art. And there's a fine cause behind it. MORE
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POSTED: 10 JUL 10
NEWS: Renowned Australian cartoonist Bruce Petty has been busy preparing material specifically for the Australian premiere of Carol Dance’s Golden Soil. MORE
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POSTED: 05 JUL 10
REVIEW: Under Milk Wood ... It’s well worth nominating Zoe Norton Lodge the theatrical revelation of the year so far. MORE
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POSTED: 27 JUN 10
NEWS: Tasmania celebrates the Bard with Australia's first major Shakespeare festival. MORE
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POSTED: 21 JUN 10
REVIEW: W;t ... hardly an amusing evening in the theatre, but in the intelligent and proficient hands of the cast and crew of New Theatre, provides dramatic catharsis. MORE
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POSTED: 19 JUN 10
NEWS: Beaudy! Belinda Morris lands starring role in new Australian musical. MORE
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POSTED: 19 JUN 10
NEWS: New Directions 2010 showcases contemporary works from Australia, America and Germany. MORE
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POSTED: 19 JUN 10
NEWS: Hollywood buzz for a couple of Tamarama Rock Surfers' collaborators. MORE
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POSTED: 14 JUN 10
REVIEW: Measure for Measure ... The most exciting theatre I’ve seen this year, and is my current forerunner for best production of 2010. MORE
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POSTED: 08 JUN 10
REVIEW: 11 and 12 ... Haunting, vibrant music that lifts an excellent dramatic work into the realms of the extraordinary. MORE
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POSTED: 31 MAY 10
REVIEW: The Sapphires ... Fine performers who can certainly belt out a tune and shimmy with the best of them — and the songlist is indeed a fine one. MORE
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POSTED: 25 MAY 10
REVIEW: Redemption ... Well worth a look, but certainly not something for the squeamish or emotionally fragile. MORE
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POSTED: 24 MAY 10
NEWS: Ian Wilding has won the 2009 Patrick White Award with his darkly funny script Forever Seven. MORE
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POSTED: 21 MAY 10
REVIEW: Parlour Song ... A gem full of raw emotion, pathos and desolation. If at times the pace slows, it is reenergized with surprising turns and brilliant performances. MORE
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POSTED: 18 MAY 10
REVIEW: Rain Man ... A story that reverberates with humanity and really does leave the audience with the warm and fuzzies. “Bet your butt!” MORE
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POSTED: 10 MAY 10
REVIEW: Pygmalion ... It’s taken until May for the Genesian Theatre’s 2010 season to commence. It was worth the wait. MORE
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POSTED: 26 APR 10
NEWS: STC announces shortlist for Patrick White Playwrights' Award. MORE
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POSTED: 02 APR 10
REVIEW: Animals out of Paper ... Rajiv Joseph has woven an absolutely charming, touchingly funny and captivating tale. MORE
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POSTED: 27 MAR 10
REVIEW: Love Me Tender ... Quite stunningly conceived and loaded to the brim with mesmerically beautiful, evocative language. MORE
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POSTED: 24 MAR 10
REVIEW: Feelgood ... A complex script reflects a first-hand knowledge of the backstage world of politics ... but on stage this authenticity is somewhat lost in translation. MORE
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POSTED: 22 MAR 10
REVIEW: Stockholm ... a potent example of the beauty and perversion of love. Strongly recommended ... but definitely not as a first date. MORE
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POSTED: 01 MAR 10
REVIEW: Godzone ... shows Gillies as acerbic, merciless and uncannily accurate as ever, and in co-writer Guy Rundle he has found a wonderfully talented collaborator. MORE
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 POSTED: 17 FEB 10
REVIEW: That Face ... A psychologically astute drama results in a mixture of operatic tragedy and black comedy. MORE
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 POSTED: 06 FEB 10
REVIEW: Brooklyn Boy ... a funny, gentle and touching exploration of acceptance. MORE
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 POSTED: 16 JAN 10
NEWS: David Berthold directs a contemporary and compelling reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet for La Boite. MORE
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 POSTED: 17 JAN 10
REVIEW: Optimism ... Wright’s pen and some bravely creative direction from Michael Kantor have created a truly remarkable hundred minutes or so of theatre. MORE
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 POSTED: 13 JAN 10
REVIEW: The Book of Everything ... uplifting, life-affirming theatre. Kids and adults alike will find joy, humour and much to ponder. MORE
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 POSTED: 11 JAN 10
REVIEW: Crestfall ... no shying away from unhappy endings or uncomfortable pieces. MORE
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 POSTED: 06 JAN 10
REVIEW: MacHomer ... Shakespeare purists would likely recoil in horror ... but a terrific night out... and wouldn’t the Bard love that? MORE
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