Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

Roslyn Packer Theatre, July 22 6/10 Among the wonders of life is that most of us aren’t obsessed about death until we’re confronting it – and some not even then. Death constantly clouds Nevil Shute’s 1957 novel On the Beach, infusing each character with acceptance or denial. Death is inevitable…

Hayes Theatre, June 27 8/10 Gunshots ring out in a pitch-black theatre. We, the audience, might well be suspects rather than mere witnesses, so perverse is the reality of City of Angels, a 1989 musical about a writer adapting his detective novel into a screenplay, the resultant film being enacted…