Belvoir St, February 17, until March 25 7.5/10 We’ve all dined at somewhere like the Golden Phoenix: the suburban Chinese restaurant that doesn’t look promising, yet serves surprisingly good food. What we’re not used to seeing is the Golden Phoenix depicted on our stages, which have been the domains of…
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Capitol Theatre, February 15 3.5 Mamma Mia! is like a warm current of water on which you can happily float along, twirl gleefully about in the eddies of Money, Money, Money, Dancing Queen, Honey, Honey and the title song, and smile all the while. Stay in that carefree place and…
Old Fitz Theatre, February 10 6/10 Water: infinitely malleable and forever changing before our eyes. A pool of milky water occupies the stage and is central to Mary Zimmerman’s lavishly theatrical Metamorphoses, a refreshingly ambitious work to see attempted in Sydney, where so many productions ignite our imaginations about as…