Category: Theatre Reviews

October 9, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Belvoir St Theatre, September 16 8.5/10 A 1950s jazz club: tables and chairs where Belvoir’s stage usually is, a dimly lit bandstand in the corner and a stool for Lady Day. Not that being a nightclub chanteuse perched on a stool is really her thing. But she does need somewhere…

October 1, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Drama Theatre, September 15 7.5/10 The birds are singing blithely and the scorching January sun glistens on what we now call Sydney Harbour. The heat apart, all would be well with the world, were the news from Kamay (Botany Bay) not so disconcerting. Nawi – boats – have arrived, again;…

September 28, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Hayes Theatre, September 13 6/10 It starts with such artless charm, and yet by the end is dragging its ergative verbs and uncountable nouns to the point where two hours seems interminable. Most of the fault lies with William Finn’s music, which not only fails to generate memorable songs, but…