Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney.24 October 2024. Dear Evan Hansen, directed by Dean Bryant, is a coming-of-age musical about teenager Evan Hansen, who suffers with social anxiety, juxtaposed with a desperate need to fit in and be seen. The show explores Evan’s journey in navigating a situation where circumstances surrounding the suicide of a classmate lead to […]

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Neilson Studio at Sydney Dance Company, Sydney.20 September 2024. This year celebrates 10 years of DirtyFeet’s proudly Out of the Studio program, with 2024 bringing audiences a triple bill program, once again presenting, and supporting, emerging artists. All artists featured shared new diverse works that displayed each of their unique voices and backgrounds. Performances were […]

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Guild Theatre, Melbourne.9 October 2024. We know that everything is ephemeral, even though we mostly reside in the delusion of permanence. In the world of art, we treasure both. Paintings, statues, etcetera at one end, live performance at the other. We have museums and plinths for the former, but for the latter – smartphones notwithstanding […]

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Guild Theatre, Melbourne. 2 October 2024. The arcs of narrative and the more figurative trajectories of dance can make for troublesome geometry; not least because dancers are rarely great actors. It requires a deft manipulation to bend them into shape. Molly achieves this sleight of hand, and then some. It begins jarringly, with stilted caricature voices, phrases cut […]

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Dancehouse, Melbourne.3 October 2024. Pomme d’amour. Love apple. Call it what you will, the humble tomato has always been vaguely sexy. Yet, the sight of three dancers writhing around in a pool of red juice is less erotic than you might think. That said, Chou Kuan Jou’s saucy three hander, Tomato, is far from prim. […]

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Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney.18 September 2024. Sydney Dance Company presented its second Sydney season for 2024 at the Roslyn Packer Theatre this month with Twofold, a double bill of old and new in Rafael Bonachela’s 2021 work Impermanence making a reappearance, and the world premiere of Melbourne based choreographer Melanie Lane’s Love Lock. Having opened […]

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Capitol Theatre, Sydney.11 September 2024. The most heavenly of musicals Sister Act has hit the Sydney stage this spring. Based on the 1992 film of the same name starring Whoopi Goldberg, the story is retold with all original songs composed by renowned film and theatre composer Alan Menken, and lyricist Glenn Slater. Full of groovy ’70s/Motown influenced […]

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Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne.28 August 2024. There was something in the air on opening night of Bangarra Dance Theatre’s latest work, Horizon, the company’s first international collaboration featuring Australian and New Zealand stories. From the excited chatter in the theatre foyer to the audience cheers following a very special Welcome To Country, by the time the […]

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Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Sydney.29 August 2024. New Zealand/Aotearoa’s Fresh Movement Collective (FMC) brought its poignant, poetic and explosive dance theatre show MĀUI to the Sydney Opera House this August. A company of 30 performers from a variety of Pacific island nation backgrounds, told their collective origin story in the folklore narrative of the […]

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Lennox Theatre, Riverside Theatres, Sydney.15 August 2024. Gold is a new classical ballet work, created by Simonne Smiles, who both produced and choreographed the work. Smiles originally created an excerpt for the ballet back in 2019, and has since weathered the Covid pandemic to bring about a more full-length version of the work, in the form […]

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