John Waters doesn’t believe in ghosts, yet he’s been seeing one most nights for the last four months. That’s because the veteran of Australian screens, theatres and concert stages is starring in the dramatisation of Susan Hill’s spooky novel, The Woman in Black, the titular character of which is a…
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Lennox Theatre, July 27 4/10 Ostensibly it’s Tahmoor – one of many close-to-Sydney towns through which the Hume Highway once crawled, before the expressway scorched across the landscape – that’s the prison for Karim and Beth. But really it’s family. Some iron combination of guilt, love and habit have been…
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, July 24 7/10 This was Lin-Manuel Miranda’s apprenticeship. He wrote the first draft of In the Heights at 19, nine years before it revolutionised musical theatre on Broadway in 2008. While rap had been used in musicals before, Miranda suddenly made it the most succinct…