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UNSW Musical Theatre Society: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Review by Chelsea Holland
Unlike most people in the audience for UNSW Musical Theatre Society’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee yesterday (at least by...
danielconway0
23 minutes ago3 min read
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Let Fantasia Showstoppers bring you on a journey under the sea.
The Little Mermaid Jr follows the story of a mermaid Ariel who longs to live in the human world, but faces many challenges, like making a...
danielconway0
2 days ago6 min read
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Lane Cove Theatre Company: If/Then - Review by Kimberlea Smith
If/Then is a Sliding Doors -esque musical that examines how the choices we make - or don’t make - shape our lives. The show follows...
danielconway0
3 days ago3 min read
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PACA Productions: The Little Mermaid - Review by Tracy Payne
Pan Academies of Creative Arts' production of "The Little Mermaid" has brought the beloved Disney classic to life with enthusiasm and...
danielconway0
6 days ago4 min read
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Miranda Musical Theatre Company: Georgy Girl: The Seekers Musical - Review by Trish & Raven Swinkels
With superior harmonies and an emotional journey which pulls at the heartstrings, Miranda Musical’s world amateur premiere of ‘Georgy...
danielconway0
6 days ago4 min read
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Genesian Theatre: Macbeth – Review by Rowan Greaves
One of the many challenges of staging Shakespeare’s Macbeth - or, as I like it call it, The King, The Thane, His Wife, and the Witches –...
danielconway0
Mar 184 min read
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Hunters Hill Theatres: Sylvia - Review by Astra Milne
It's not an uncommon story: a middle-aged man on the brink of an existential crisis, finding solace in a younger female, and thus...
danielconway0
Mar 182 min read
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Castle Hill Players: Improbable Fiction - Review by Daniel Conway
I am happy to be proven wrong when it comes to theatre. It is always a pleasant surprise when I have expectations, and they manage to be...
danielconway0
Feb 192 min read
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Regals Musical Society: Head Over Heels - Review by Faith Jessel
Love is love is love—and Regals Musical Society’s Head Over Heels wears its heart on its sequined sleeve like it’s going out of style. An...
Jordan Anderson
Feb 163 min read
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Be sure to Go-Go see this NSW Premiere at the Rockdale Town Hall this February
In this NSW PREMIERE, an oracle prophesizes that the kingdom of Arcadia will soon lose its “Beat”—the mysterious, divine force that has...
danielconway0
Feb 14 min read
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Genesian Theatre: An Inspector Calls - Review by Kimberlea Smith
A drawing room play that asks what we owe to one another, J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls is a scathing indictment of the British...
danielconway0
Jan 193 min read
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Antipodes Theatre Company and Hays Theatre Co: Ghost Quartet - Review by Daniel Conway
Photos courtesy of Angel Legas/ 3 Fates Media I had never seen a song cycle before attending the opening night of Ghost Quartet at the...
danielconway0
Jan 183 min read
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2024: The 4th Wall Theatre Awards
Firstly I am going to address a misnomer. These are not awards in the strictest sense of the word. How could I or anyone else designate a...
danielconway0
Dec 16, 202414 min read
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Ensemble Theatre: The Heartbreak Choir - Review by Faith Jessel
When words fail, music speaks—a sentiment that forms the very core of The Heartbreak Choir. With a blend of comedy and pathos, the late,...
danielconway0
Dec 7, 20243 min read
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Penrith Musical Comedy Company: Into the Woods - Review by Kevin Rodrigueza
Into the Woods makes its way to Penrith Musical Comedy Company, inviting audiences once more through a mystifying forest with the iconic...
danielconway0
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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Hunters Hill Theatre: Mother and Son - Review by Helen Bell
Christine Rule and Brenton Amies have been perfectly cast as Mother and Son Maggie and Arthur Beare. Without mimicking or parodying the...
danielconway0
Nov 25, 20243 min read
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Camden Musical Society: Little Shop of Horrors - Review by Simon Peppercorn
Little Shop of Horrors has a fascinating history. First staged off-off-Broadway in 1982, it began as an inventive retelling of a...
danielconway0
Nov 25, 20246 min read
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Henry Lawson Theatre: Clue - Review by Daniel Conway
There is something to be said for being original. When theatre is new, exciting, and cutting-edge, it can feel important. This being...
danielconway0
Nov 19, 20243 min read
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Castle Hill Players: Grand Horizons – Review by Rowan Greaves
Plays often begin with what’s known as ‘an inciting incident’: a surprising occurrence from which the action springs. Bess Wohl’s play...
danielconway0
Nov 19, 20242 min read
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ZAP at the Factory Theatre: HAIR – Review by Rowan Greaves
As someone who loves HAIR, originally subtitled “The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical”, news of a new production can fill me with...
danielconway0
Nov 19, 20242 min read
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