Category: Theatre Reviews

April 15, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

Roslyn Packer Theatre, April 2 6/10 Like some of the residents in the Pine Grove Aged Care Centre, Bloom can be a bit lame. Handed caricatures rather than characters, the actors sometimes grasp after laughs, rather than trusting material that’s punctuated with genuinely funny lines. I’ve seen this phenomenon in…

April 9, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

Hayes Theatre, April 1 9.5/10 Who’d have thought that laughing at Nazis would suddenly become so pertinent again? Mel Brooks’ original film was made in 1967, when you could have fought in World War II, and still be in your 40s. Fifty-eight years later, the same blister still needs pricking,…

April 5, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

York Theatre, Seymour Centre, March 29 8.5/10 The great wonder of history is that we continue to be surprised by it unfolding in our own lifetimes, as if it were something that only happened in the past. The corollary is that all that happened in the past is our tutor…