Review: Gardens Speak (Adelaide Festival)
This beautifully conceived interactive installation is an act of remembrance and of gentle protest.
March 5, 2017
Review: Richard III (Schaubühne Berlin, Adelaide Festival)
Eidinger’s pissing and puking monarch is the dark heart of Ostermeier’s Germanic staging.
March 5, 2017
Review: Chimerica (Sydney Theatre Company)
The complexities of China and America explored with compelling energy and dramatic dexterity.
March 5, 2017
Review: Intimate Space (Restless Dance Theatre, Adelaide Festival)
Dynamic world premiere is a close encounter that charms and disarms.
March 4, 2017
Victorian boys chosen for Matthew Bourne’s Lord of the Flies
Following an intensive search, the 23 boys have been announced who will populate the British dancemaker’s savage island. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
March 3, 2017
Secret River makes a powerful start to Adelaide Festival 2017
Neil Armfield’s staging won five-star reviews, but staging it in the Australian landscape takes it to new level. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
March 3, 2017
Review: Mark Colvin’s Kidney (Belvoir)
It tells an extraordinary story and is enjoyable on that level, but the play doesn't resonate as great drama.
March 2, 2017
Review: Richard 3 (Bell Shakespeare)
Kate Mulvany juggles charming wit and cunning ruthlessness in a visceral performance as the “bunch-back'd” king.
March 2, 2017
Pure Dynamite: Limelight’s March 2017 issue on sale now
New issue features QSO MD Alondra de la Parra, a guide to Russian music, Van Gogh and Matthew Bourne’s Lord of the Flies. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
March 1, 2017
Review: Away (Sydney Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre)
An interesting darker take on Michael Gow's beloved play, though some of the magic is lost.
February 24, 2017
Review: Opus No. 7 (Dmitry Krymov Laboratory, PIAF)
Krymov's puppets tell a darkly visual tale of Shostakovich and his time.
February 23, 2017
Review: The Homosexuals, or ‘Faggots’ (Malthouse Theatre)
Declan Greene's queer farce gets audiences laughing hard and thinking even harder.
February 22, 2017
Thomas Ostermeier’s radical Richard III
The iconoclastic German director has a habit of turning classics on their heads. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
February 22, 2017