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Fiddler on the Roof. Photo: Daniel Boud.
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Fiddler on the Roof review: this joyous production pulses with life

Fiddler on the Roof, at Theatre Royal Sydney, somehow manages to be the show we need right now.

Lucy Ansell in Red Stitch's Funeral Flowers. Photo: Jess D'cruze.
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Funeral Flowers review: a one-woman masterpiece at Red Stitch

Lucy Ansell delivers a knock-out performance in Funeral Flowers, a Scotsman Fringe First-winning play by British playwright Emma Dennis-Edwards.

Mackenzie turns Shakespeare's Macbeth into a teen pop star. Photo: Brett Boardman.
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Mackenzie is more than a teen-pop twist on Macbeth – it's a test for Australian theatre

By betting on Mackenzie, Yve Blake's Y2K-inspired adaptation of the Bard’s darkest tragedy, Bell Shakespeare wagers that the classics still…

Daniel Henshall in Uncle Vanya. Photo: Pia Johnson.
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Uncle Vanya review: Chekhov's classic gets a barnstorming update

This Melbourne production of Uncle Vanya ups the laughter without losing sight of the class divide that fuelled Chekhov’s work.

Grey Gardens, presented by Clovelly Fox and Fortyfivedownstairs. Photo: Ben Fon.
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Grey Gardens review: the strange story of the cult documentary turned musical

This Melbourne production is for fans of hidden musical theatre gems and admirers of the original Grey Gardens documentary.

Gunawarra Re-Creation. Photo: Jacinta Keefe Photography.
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Gunawarra Re-creation review: an astonishing reframing of creation myths

If you missed Gunawarra Re-creation a couple of years back, Ilbijerri is remounting Isobel Morphy-Walsh’s powerful work for NAIDOC Week.

Dear Children, Sincerely... 7 Decades of Sri Lanka, written and directed by Ruwanthie de Chickera, Stages Theatre Group. Photo: Prauda Buwaneka.

Artists from the Asia Pacific stand out at international theatre festival

Of more than 30 theatre shows at this year's Theater Der Welt festival in Germany, these three productions from the…

Suzy Eddie Izzard's one-woman show of Hamlet is currently touring Australia. Image: Supplied.
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Eddie Izzard’s Hamlet review: what a piece of work!

Suzy Eddie Izzard says it’s a particularly audacious time for a trans woman to be touring a one-person production of…

Madeleine Sami and Genevieve Morris in Losing Face. Photo: Pia Johnson.
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Losing Face review: sloppy, shallow and unfunny

Marieke Hardy’s Losing Face, now playing at MTC, is a soggy satire has no clue what its trying to say…

Adam Noviello and Paul Capris in House of Rot. Image: Supplied.
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House of Rot review: decadent but divine dilapidation

Paul Capsis and Adam Noviello bring big performances and excellent pipes in House of Rot.

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