All posts tagged "theater"
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688ArtsTheatre Review: American Idiot
American punk-pop band Green Day have turned their seminal album American Idiot into a stage production.
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768ArtsTheatre Review: Toyer
A single, female, psychiatrist, has just returned home to her small house in Randall Canyon, in the Hollywood hills. She locks up behind her, as a psychopath is roaming the Canyon, not killing women, but rendering them lobotomized and paralyzed.
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1.4KArtsTheatre Review: The School for Scandal (…in the garden)
Following his successful 2017 season of Sense and Sensibility in garden locations, clever director Dave Simms (Blue Sky Theatre) this year re-imagines Sheridan’s 18th century comedy of manners in the exuberant primary colours and tabloid-fed rumour-mills of 1950’s London.
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813ArtsTheatre Review: A Very Kransky Christmas
Using instruments such as a toilet brush, tuba, musical saw and other weird appliances, the sisters celebrate Christmas in their own unique style.
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1.0KArtsTheatre Review: The Importance of Being Earnest
The lilt of Oscar Wilde’s elegant language, meticulously chosen to delight, provoke and entertain, helps to confect a figgy pudding of fun crammed with bons mots, epigrams and wicked satire.
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1.1KArtsTheatre Review: Spring Awakening
This beautiful late 20th century reworking of Frank Wedekind’s late 19th century play of the same name pits curiosity against constraint, honesty against deception and sensitivity against repression.
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2.1KArtsBOOK REVIEW: Australian Gothic: The Untold Story of the 1929-31 Dracula Stage Tour Down Under
A well-researched and fascinating look at the history of Bram Stoker's Dracula in Australia, centering around the 1929-31 stage production but so much more!
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1.4KArtsTheatre Review: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Playful charm, high good humour and practised skill are the hallmarks of this eminently entertaining show. “Spelling Bee” is a compact musical which only calls for a cast of nine.
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2.0KArtsTheatre Review: Puberty Blues
Two teenage girls try to fit into the popular surfie crowd in 1970s Australia and, in doing so, discover the pitfalls of growing up.
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1.2KArtsTheatre Review: Atlanta
Five characters examine their relationship with Atlanta, a member of their group who is now dead, and with each other.
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2.3KArtsTheatre Review: Les Misérables
Distilled from a 19th century novel written by Victor Hugo, with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, book and lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jeanmarc Natel, 'Les Miserable' has become a world-wide musical theatre phenomenon.
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1.0KArtsTheatre Review: The White House Murder Case
The White House Murder Case is unnervingly topical for a play that first saw the light of day in 1970. Set in 2020, it prophesies the outlandish concept of Americans fighting in a war on foreign soil, whilst having little or no idea of the reasons for the conflict.
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631ArtsTheatre Review; Marathon
On the face of it, this play is simply a series of exchanges between two men who are in training to enter the New York Marathon later in the year.
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574ArtsTheatre Review: The Golden Dragon
Although not a household name in Australia, this prolific contemporary German playwright and theatre director has written an allegory bathed in magic realism and tricked out with quirky cinematic idiosyncracies.
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1.2KArtsTheatre Review: A Doll’s House
As the inaugural project of the State Theatre Company‘s Ensemble, this sharp-eyed adaptation of Ibsen’s proto-feminist tract offers much food for thought.
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780ArtsTheatre Review: MidWinter Murders: Murder at Hogwarts
Celebrating a season of MidWinter Murders, Improv Adelaide is hosting some of the city’s best improvisation troupes, putting them to the test with interactive murder mysteries.
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668ArtsCabaret Festival Review: Lady Rizo: Multiplied
The long-lashed, red-lipped, cabaret star, Lady Rizo, fabulously returns to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival - but this time she’s not alone!
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827ArtsCabaret Festival Review: Strange Bedfellows : Bedlam
There is nothing nice about this cabaret performance – mercifully! We are confronted, comforted, ostracised, outraged, deliberately confused and just as deliberately cajoled.
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594ArtsCabaret Festival Review: Brel: The Immortal Troubador
Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Adelaide. At least for one night.
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906ArtsCabaret Festival Review: Meow Meow : Souvenir
Meow Meow is, at heart, a comedienne, a mistress of comedy in the tradition of Barry Humphries.
