Old Fitz Theatre, April 3 8/10 “Ooh, let’s lift this scab and see what’s underneath,” Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht seem to say. The oddity was not their infatuation with humanity’s darker side, but the jaunty way in which they investigated it. Perhaps they didn’t expect us to rise much…
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Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, March 18 8/10 Americans who covet guns do so partly in case their government goes rogue on them. That’s not an excuse; just an observation. The government did go rogue in Australia, and what happened? Blessedly, no one was shot. Instead, we had an Ombudsman investigation,…
Reginald Theatre, April 2 9/10 It’s gone from being rare to optional, fashionable and almost compulsory: the idea that art should reveal the artist. Many playwrights also feel obliged to reveal their convictions, thereby often degrading art to doctrine. US playwright Will Arbery is braver and more ambitious. He bombards…