Posts By Pat Wilson
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3.3KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Girl From The North Country
Innovative excellence
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1.5KEntertainmentTheatre Review: The Pig Iron People
Bless St Jude and his Players for bringing this charming, humane and funny play to the stage
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983EntertainmentTheatre Review: Ellis Dolan Sings Sondheim
Presented by Back2Back Short Show FestivalReviewed 22nd October, 2021 As part of the Star Theatre’s annual Back2Back Festival, two properly-pronouned performers with...
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1.5KCabaret FringeCabaret Fringe Festival Review: Little Man
Presented by Adelaide Cabaret Fringe FestivalReviewed 12th June, 2021 Adelaide-based cabaret performer, writer, composer, choir director and all-round nice guy BJ Shaw...
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1.5KCabaret FringeCabaret Fringe Festival Review: Retail Reality
Service with a smile
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1.2KCabaret FringeCabaret Fringe Festival Review: The Catchelorette
Cleverly funny & provocative
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2.0KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Chess
For ‘80’s aficionados and ABBA fans, this newer, slimmer version of Chess is a must.
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3.3KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Euphoria
This is a little gem of theatre. The writing crackles, the acting dazzles, and design is a textbook exemplar of economy, ingenuity...
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1.1KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Fracture
Nothing is as it seems.
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1.3KAdelaide FestivalFestival Review: Dance Nation
Against the dark mirrored walls of Jonathon Oxlade’s splendid studio set, complete with ballet bars and lockers, a dance class of six...
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3.9KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Shane Warne: The Musical
A musical comedy by Eddie Perfect based on the life of Australian cricketer Shane Warne.
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2.1KEntertainmentTheatre Review: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Musical material ranges from opera to pop, via country and music theatre, with a pinch of rock thrown in for good measure.
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2.6KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Once Upon A Mattress
Mock-mediaeval merriment in a fractured fairy-tale story results in a cheery show filled with pratfalls, patter, send-ups and satire.
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3.2KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Kinky Boots
On the surface, this cheery British story, concocted by two Americans, teaches a simple economic truth – if your customers don’t want...
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2.5KEntertainmentTheatre Review: An Inspector Calls
J.B. Priestley’s old-fashioned drawing-room drama written in 1945 still packs a moral wallop. On the surface, it’s a static set, with a...
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4.7KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Strictly Ballroom: The Musical
The film didn’t come first. Baz Luhrmann’s charming rebellious-ugly-duckling allegory started life on stage as a play, then became a film. Its...
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4.0KEntertainmentTheatre Review: The Book Of Mormon
The subject of the book, music and lyrics, by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone, may at first glance seem to...
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1.7KEntertainmentInterview: Sammy J Talks About His Major Party Tour
If you’re after intelligent satire without the weary comic stock-in-trade of lower-class accent, yelling, and whatever words are currently deemed naughty these...
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1.7KArtsCabaret Festival Review: iOTA – Slap & Tickle
Beneath the simple village merriment derived from watching one bloke shove another bloke around there lies a complex world.
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1.4KArtsCabaret Festival Review: Paul Capsis with Jethro Woodward & the Fitzroy Youth Orchestra
Capsis live is a religious experience. His latest avatar is Rock God, and in this show, he performs a dozen rock, pop,...
