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- Richard Cotter
In The Heights consistently hits the highs in an exhilarating musical with surprising emotional depth.
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- Jack Teiwes
At school they might just be girls, but here they are a squad, a pack. Here they are the Wolves.
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- Emily Shaddick
The Book of Mormon is beyond exceptional. It is worth every star, every word of praise and every award that it has won.
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- Richard Cotter
Shakespeare not stirred. This is the cockeyed cocktail served by Bell Shakespeare’s production of Antony & Cleopatra.
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- Jack Teiwes
Not so much a kitchen sink drama as perhaps a "backyard verandah drama", The Shifting Heart is a 1957 play dealing with the trials and tribulations of immigrant Australians.
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- Marika Bryant
Comedians walk the tight-rope more than most performers: this is an exercise in communication and observation; relegation and distribution; delivery and response. So many contingencies to take into account – demographics, geography, socio-economic groupings and ‘what’s happening now’.
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- Richard Cotter
A seventeen strong ensemble struts their formidable stuff in the small space of the The Depot Theatre, filling it with the joy and verve and sweet melancholy of Stephen Sondheim's music and lyrics and George Furth's book.
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- Richard Cotter
Climactic end to a climatic argument, Kill Climate Deniers delivers a playfully provocative ninety minutes of fast and furious fuming with eco warriors from conflicting camps giving lip and shooting from the hip.
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