Category: Theatre Reviews

October 18, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, October 10 6/10 A deep sense of mythology surrounds the reader in D’Arcy Niland’s 1955 novel, The Shiralee. It’s as if the very landscape of mid-20th-century Australia is misanthropic, while those inhabiting it can be as deadly as brown snakes. In adapting the novel, playwright…

October 9, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

Sydney Lyric, October 2 8/10 You knew in your bones that a musical hatched from a sci-fi film would have at least one eye-bulging, draw-dropping moment, and it didn’t disappoint. Forget Phantom’s chandelier or Miss Saigon’s helicopter: what the DeLorean does in Back to the Future is in a different…

October 6, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

Wharf 2 Theatre, September 27 4/10 No one has the nerve to let this play just be in a woke world. So a man treats a woman badly. Does this not happen? Should it not be depicted? Women also treat men badly – or, more to the point, people treat…