Category: Theatre Reviews

December 16, 2024 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Belvoir Downstairs Theatre, December 8 6/10 Playwright Lewis Treston wrote Hot Tub after dreaming of a helicopter lifting a hot tub on to the roof of a Surfers Paradise high-rise. The play, finally premiering after winning the 2016 Patrick White Playwright’s Award, unfolds more like a nightmare: not one of…

December 11, 2024 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Ensemble Theatre, November 4 7/10 Barbara knows that one of the dumbest things governments have done is fail to champion music education. Making music improves our intellects, emotional acumen, general well-being and social cohesion. It’s also fun. That’s why Barbara formed a choir in rural Australia, and when that unravelled,…

December 4, 2024 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Hayes Theatre, November 27 5.5/10 This is where the name for the hotels came from. All 1100 of them. Inspired by the 1942 movie starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, which was blessed with the music of Irving Berlin, the hotel chain arrived 10 years later. Six more decades would…