Reviews
![Natalie Gamsu. Photo: Marija Ivkovic. A person smiling brightly wearing a red top and black skirt, which she is holding in her hand.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_4221-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-e1718928986319.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Shrapnel, fortyfivedownstairs
A production that celebrates Natalie Gamsu and invites the Jewish South African community to recall memories of their formative years.
![James Joyce (Tref Gare) performing his spider dance in ‘ Samuel Beckett and the Rainbow Girl’. Photo: Jody Jane Stitt.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/55A9899-4-retouch-e1718927408814.jpeg?w=310)
Theatre review: Samuel Beckett and the Rainbow Girl, St Martin’s Theatre
A new play exploring Irish novelist James Joyce’s Paris years in the 1920s.
![Inside Out 2. Image: Disney. Anxiety greets core emotions, Joy, Anger, Fear, Disgust and Sadness in headquarters.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/fb4f4fdd1249d579cfdca769909b6689_4096x1714_98004c4e-e1718779991571.jpeg?w=310)
Film review: Inside Out 2
With fast pacing, great visuals and enough emotional depth, 'Inside Out 2' delivers on more than one front.
![Ten figures are sitting cross-legged in formation with their hands raised above their heads. They are wearing light, floaty trousers. The men are bare-chested. The women are wearing brown-coloured bras.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Horizon-The-Light-Inside_Bangarra_Courtney-Radford-Kiarn-Doyle-Lillian-Banks-Daniel-Mateo-Maddison-Paluch_credit_Daniel-Boud1.jpg?w=310)
Dance review: Horizon, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House
Bangarra Dance Theatre’s darkly beautiful new production draws upon the ancient roots of both Australian and New Zealand First Nations…
![man and woman in gallery exhibiting Egyptian artefacts. Pharaoh.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Pharaoh-at-NGV-81-Sean-Fennessy.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Pharaoh, NGV International
This is an exhibition that demonstrates how we can shift up and still surprise – and how we can show…
![Two white men dressed in Victorian era garb sit on a stage, either side of a large theatrical costumes/props basket with a decanter on the top of it. One man is draped in a blanket and clutches a glass looking worriedly at the older grey haired man, who also looks concerned but off downstage right, clasping his hands in his lap.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Daniel-MacPherson-and-John-Waters-in-THE-WOMAN-IN-BLACK-c-Justin-Nicholas1-1-e1714952925917.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: The Woman in Black, QPAC
A powerful production of this acclaimed British thriller has commenced its Australian nationwide tour.Â
![Death in the Pantheon. On a dark stage two actors are bathed in green light. One can only be seen from the neck down and is holding an ornate drinking contraption, with a red glass case, the other is bending below it to drink.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/20240612181215_IMGL97391.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Death in the Pantheon, Flight Path Theatre
The latest production from Sydney’s Upper Crass Theatre Company is somewhat flawed – but not without its charms.Â
![There are four iillustrations by the artist Alphonse Mucha. Two smaller pictures sit on top of each other and two bigger pictures are on either side.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/2024MUC_0141.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Alphonse Mucha: Spirit of Art Nouveau, Art Gallery of New South Wales
This comprehensive exhibition showcases 200 Mucha works, from posters to sculpture, jewellery and more.
![Three men and a woman are standing on treadmills. They have their arms in the air.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Burnout_Paradise_Darren_Gill-32121.jpg?w=310)
Performance review: Burnout Paradise, Pony Cam Collective, RISING Festival, Malthouse
A frenzy of tasks performed on treadmills – but to what end?
![Suhani Shah. A woman with a short bob haircut wearing a sparkling maroon pantsuit is standing on stage in front of heavy curtains. She has her left arm raised and fingers pointed to the sky.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GiannaRizzo_SuhaniShah_HR-71.jpg?w=310)
Performance review: Suhani Shah, Spellbound, RISING Festival, The Capitol
A magic mentalist show from a star Indian performer.