Monthly Archives: December, 2019

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2019 Retrospective: Kate Stratford

Theatre that is transformative is not necessarily professional, or expensive. It is courageous in what it does. It is always offers a new insight...

On The Screen: Little Women

Con’s Score: 3 Spoonfulls Of Sugar The March family lives in Massachusetts, and their father, (Bob Odenkirk) who’s a pastor, is off saving souls during...

A Chat About: Les Mis and UpClose & Intimate With Hayden Tee and Robert McDougall

In February the baton, or perhaps more accurately the truncheon will be passed. Robert McDougall, who understudied Hayden Tee as Javert in Cameron Mackintosh’s...

Theatre Now Review: Cirque Stratosphere

Kate’s Score: 4.5 Moonwalks   In a marriage of the mystical and the mechanical, Cirque Stratosphere delivers a narrative of space exploration which becomes a framework...

On The Screen Review: The Truth

Con's Score: 3.5 Tortoises It’s risky making a movie about an actress called “The Truth”. After all, actors are professional schizophrenics, who pretend to be...

On The Screen Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Con's Score: 4.5 Flames This is the second film we’ve seen this year about the art of painting. It’s easy to fall into the craft...

A Chat About: Lady Tabouli with James Elazzi and Dino Dimitriadis

Lady Tabouli will have its world premiere at Sydney Festival in January. James Elazzi's play is unapologetic and piercing while still managing to be...

On The Screen Review – Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Con's Score: 3.5 Light Sabres Star Wars means so much to so many. I remember queuing up twice to get tickets back in 1977, and...

Cirque Stratosphere Extends

Press Release: Cirque Stratosphere – a spectacular new circus from the creators of CIRCUS 1903 (2016) and last summer’s smash-hit The Illusionists: Direct from Broadway – will return to the Sydney Opera...

Theatre Now Review: Blue Christmas

Kate's Score: 3.5 sleigh bells   "Millennihilism" is the word coined to identify the pervading sense of nihilism and apathy expressed by millennials. Unlike their parents...

Theatre Now Review: Spot

Fiona's Score: 4 Paw Prints For almost forty years young readers have been delighted with British illustrator Eric Hill’s picture book adventures about a big...

New Theatre Announce 1st half of 2020 Season

Press Release: Artistic Director Louise Fischer has announced New Theatre's program for the first half of the 2020 season. "In a departure from previous years, we've...