Reviews
Potted Potter
Condensing all seven books in the Harry Potter series into 70 minutes results in a very funny production ideal for…
Managing Carmen
David Williamson’s new play about a cross-dressing footballer is crass, clunky and clichéd.
If It Bleeds: The Christine Chubbuck Story
In 1974, an anchor on a small-town TV station shot herself in the head, live on her morning talk show.…
The One Hundred Year Old Man Who...
Jonas Jonasson's blackly comic novel is a European publishing phenomenon.
The Taming of the Shrew
This high culture mash-up of Herman Goetz’s opera and Shakespeare’s drama leaves art the winner in a WAAPA experiment that…
Swimming Home
Shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, Deborah Levy’s novel is allusive and poetic; a literary gem that…
Between Two Waves
This Griffin Theatre production is everything a lover of new, independent Australian drama could hope for, and more.
Black Spring
Every so often one chances upon a novel so uplifting, enthralling and immersive it becomes a struggle to put it…
No Child...
A remarkable theatrical achievement, and a wonderful example of the importance – nay, necessity – of arts education from an…
How to Draw Cartoobs and Other Typos
This fun and whimsical show from Crikey cartoonist (cartoobist?) First Dog On The Moon is entertaining and charming, dispensing laughs…