Brendan Cowell, actor and writer, was enjoying a successful eight-year stint in London when he had a night out with an unnamed “fabulous British theatre actor”. At 2am the two ex-Hamlets were sharing a bottle, performing the Dane’s speeches on the curbside, and agreeing he never leaves those who play…
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Sydney Town Hall, January 9 7.5/10 Dark Noon unravels the American Dream thread by thread, until all that’s left is a grinning nightmare. Winning the West is stripped down to a tawdry tale of guns, gold, whores, booze, genocide, railroads and God. Intermingled with a tale of whites behaving badly…
The SMH ran a list of the most significant albums of the first quarter of the new century. This was my contribution: Original Broadway Cast Recording (Warners) 9.5/10 Having launched his hip hop revolution of musical theatre with In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda dared to dream higher still. What better…