Sydney Reviews

Details: Jack Teiwes; 11 September 2009

All this hype aside, it is on several levels an excellent musical, filled with fascinating ideas, engaging characters and production values virtually second to none.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 10 September 2009

It's a glamourous-looking production, polished to a high sheen, but the underlying script sometimes buckles, with less than dazzling wit.

Details: Vanessa Lahey; 10 September 2009

Originally a play for radio, Under Milk Wood was written by the late, great Dylan Thomas in 1953.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 09 September 2009

Fire - A Retrospective | Bangarra Dance Theatre

It's exuberant, unexpurgated, unafraid, edgy and bold. At the same time, it reflects the highest possible standards of athleticism, craft and choreography.

Details: Rachel Orzech; 08 September 2009

The three young musicians who make up Golden Fur are not afraid of experimentation, and in the field of new music they can’t afford to be.

Details: Helen Barry; 07 September 2009

A Streetcar Named Desire is without a doubt the best production that I’ve seen all year, and theatregoers should beg borrow or steal their way into it.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 04 September 2009

A Woman in Berlin | Splinter Theatre Company

This is the sort of independent theatre that we need. A tight one-hander telling a poignant story in an intimate, largely restrained fashion and yet with a keen awareness of the theatrical.

Details: jane barton; 03 September 2009

Neil Armfield and David Hare have a creative simpatico. Together they create riveting work which illustrates not only the themes at hand but even more broadly, why theatre is a unique and powerful medium.

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