Category: Theatre Reviews

January 15, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

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…

January 12, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

Darlinghurst Courthouse, January 7 7/10 Shirley Beiger escaped to obscurity of Melbourne while the going was good; before Sydney suddenly wondered if it and its judicial system been dazzled by her blond curls; dazzled into a “not guilty” verdict in her trial for murdering her lover, Arthur Griffith. Beiger, you…

January 10, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

Roslyn Packer Theatre, January 4 7.5/10 This, I promise you, is like nothing you have seen. An ancient Greek tragedy is fused with an ongoing global calamity in Brazil to create Antigone in the Amazon. Mythology and reality, it tells us, are one and the same. The civil war that…