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Theatre

Family Values

Audrey review: David Williamson's combustible cocktail of viewpoints on the Australian government’s refugee and asylum policy is the angriest play he's written in years.

Where: SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross, Sydney When: 17 Jan - 7 Mar 2020

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Sydney Festival 2020

Black Cockatoo

Audrey review: Geoffrey Atherden's story of the first Aboriginal cricket team to tour England conjures bridges to Australia’s troubling colonial history.

Where: Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli, Sydney When: 4 Jan - 8 Feb 2020

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Theatre

Songs For Nobodies

Bernadette Robinson returns to Sydney with her spellbinding one woman play of imagined encounters between five divas and five ordinary women.

Where: The Playhouse, Sydney Opera House When: 23 Jan - 9 Feb 2020

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Musical

The Life of Us

Audrey review: An appealing slice of pop-musical drama by rising stars Ashleigh Taylor and Ben Bennett depicts a relationship stretched to its limits.

Where: Hayes Theatre Company, Potts Point, Sydney When: 16 Jan - 9 Feb 2020

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Musical

Six

What the critics say: “Wildly entertaining, joyous and exhilarating". Sassy queens of the West End hit impress the pundits.

Where: The Studio, Sydney Opera House When: 4 Jan - 5 Mar 2020

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Family Shows

Shrek the Musical

What the critics say: Ben Mingay moves a mountain of makeup as Shrek the ogre settles into his Sydney swamp.

Where: Lyric Theatre, Pyrmont, Sydney When: 1 - 31 Jan 2020

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Musical

Bran Nue Dae

What the critics say: The thirtieth anniversary reboot of this landmark Australian musical is vibrant and timely but some old bugbears remain.

Where: Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, Sydney When: 16 Jan - 1 Feb 2020

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Opera

Carmen

John Bell’s production of Bizet’s Carmen returns to the Joan Sutherland Theatre with five singers making their Opera Australia debuts.

Where: Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House When: 11 Jan - 26 Mar 2020

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Features

Longer reads. Big ideas. More than just the skinny.

Got a few minutes? Spend some of them on Audrey Journal’s long-form writing on theatre, dance, opera and performance in Sydney and beyond.

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FestivalThe Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The Domain, Sydney 31 - 31 Jan 2020

The Lysicrates Prize 2020: Make ’em Laugh

The fifth annual Lysicrates Prize is, for the first time, an all comedy competition. Lee Lewis explains why.

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Conversation 26 - 26 Jan 2020

Shakespeare for Teenagers: Blessings in Disguise

Shakespeare had huge faith in the young actors who gave us the original Juliet, Lady Macbeth, or Rosalind and Viola. So why don't we, asks George Kemp.

Conversation 26 - 26 Jan 2020

Cultural criticism and cultural memory

In a newly published Platform Paper, Alison Croggon considers the state of critical writing in Australia and asks, should it disappear, to whom would that matter?

ArchivedGriffin Theatre, Kings Cross, Sydney 1 Nov - 14 Dec 2019

A Revolution in Thinking

If love can blossom between a boy and a fox, then what else is possible, asks Lee Lewis with her season-ending production First Love is the Revolution.

ArchivedKings Cross Theatre, Kings Cross, Sydney 1 - 16 Nov 2019

Black Men Centre Stage

How do representations of Black masculinities manifest theatrically? With multiplicity, in a million ways, argues writer and performer Rebekah Robertson.