Sydney Reviews

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 26 February 2010

Close your eyes and Bri Cowlishaw will take you places familiar, new, nostalgic, painful, peaceful, visceral, and elsewhere. Places you've been. Places you've seen. And places known that look quite different, when viewed from her sharply-defined angle.

Details: Eliza Eggler; 23 February 2010

The future of the counter-tenor looks extremely bright if France’s Philippe Jaroussky is anything to go by.

Details: Helen Barry; 22 February 2010

Powerful, bittersweet, funny and at times gut-wrenching and devastating, Bent is quite simply a great piece of theatre.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 15 February 2010

Joanna Murray-Smith’s play is pithy, unpredictable, and ultimately quite moving.

Details: Laurel Green; 15 February 2010

The ‘biggest little play festival in the world’, Short + Sweet showcases the talent of hundreds of directors, playwrights and actors each year – in only 10 minutes or less.

Details: Vito Mattarelli; 15 February 2010

The Fabulous Frances Faye in Australia | Nick Christo

The show is sharp and focused, and at an hour in length, the perfect cabaret experience.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 10 February 2010

Spring Awakening | Sydney Theatre Company

It's hard to separate which is the triumphant hero of this musical: story, or score? Of course, in the best musicals, the two are synergistic and inseparable, and this is the case here.

Details: Laurel Green; 10 February 2010

The Lady Grey refuses to leave the spectator in the dark and instead captures our attention with hypothetical questions and direct-address.

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