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- Doug Knight
Opera Australia and GWB Entertainment have delivered a beautifully realised, fully staged original take of this musical that is now as iconic as the film on which it was based.
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- Stephanie Glickman
360 All Stars is a great concept and fun way to spend an hour.
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- Heather Bloom
The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) is gloriously funny and once it gets going, does not stop.
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- Cait Coffey-Wong
I had some questions – not the least of which was exactly how sh!t-faced is shi!t-faced?
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- Heather Bloom
As Gadsby navigates this new world of stardom, wealth and everything else that comes with it, they open up about panic attacks, feminism and fear of being cancelled.
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- Jane Canaway
Zoe Coombs Marr has always included a lot of personal material in her work, but her new show, Every Single Thing In My Whole Entire Life, takes autobiographical content to the next level.
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- Stephanie Glickman
Luzia is a jumble of imagery all wrapped up in spectacular environments that include a vertical waterfall raining down like a tapestry on a loom and a plunge pool for an aerialist to thrash in and out of.
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