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Billy Elliot the Musical

Musical

Billy Elliot the Musical

Audrey review: A decade on from its Australian premiere, Billy Elliot still soars above the ever-expanding pack of musicals spun from movies.

Where: Lyric Theatre, Pyrmont, Sydney When: 10 Oct - 8 Dec 2019

Slaughterhouse

Theatre

Slaughterhouse

Audrey review: Anchuli Felicia King's surreal horror comedy sends up the anxieties, hypocrisies and warped behaviours of the sustainable eating movement.

Where: Belvoir Downstairs, Surry Hills, Sydney When: 16 Oct - 2 Nov 2019

Fangirls

Theatre

Fangirls

Audrey review: Yve Blake delivers one of the year's best with a vivid, very funny and authentic celebration of youthful passion.

Where: Belvoir, Surry Hills, Sydney When: 12 Oct - 10 Nov 2019

Wit

Theatre

Wit

Audrey review: A spare and moving production balances the cerebral and emotional facets of Margaret Edson's life-and-death drama just about perfectly.

Where: Seymour Centre, Chippendale, Sydney When: 16 - 26 Oct 2019

Rosaline

Theatre

Rosaline

Audrey review: Joanna Erskine's revisionist take on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is fashioned with subversive perspectives and twists.

Where: Kings Cross Theatre, Kings Cross Hotel, Sydney When: 11 - 26 Oct 2019

Fully Committed

Theatre

Fully Committed

Audrey review: Contessa Treffone keeps all the plates spinning in a light but tasty satire on upmarket restaurant culture.

Where: Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli, Sydney When: 11 Oct - 16 Nov 2019

The Angry Brigade

Theatre

The Angry Brigade

Audrey review: We are half a world and half a century removed from the story presented here but The Angry Brigade’s depiction of opposing forces feels very current.

Where: New Theatre, Newtown, Sydney When: 1 Oct - 2 Nov 2019

April Aardvark

Theatre

April Aardvark

April Aardvark is the living, breathing embodiment of a fake social media account – a mean, obscene insult machine.

Where: Stables Theatre, Kings Cross, Sydney When: 16 - 26 Oct 2019

The Real Thing

Theatre

The Real Thing

Audrey review: Sydney Theatre Company delivers an evening of quality stroke play on the smoothest wicket imaginable.

Where: Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House When: 9 Sep - 26 Oct 2019

Cirque du Soleil: KURIOS

Circus

Cirque du Soleil: KURIOS

Audrey review: Kurios invites its audience into a Jules Verne-inspired future-past full of surprises and charm.

Where: The Grand Chapiteau, Moore Park, Sydney When: 3 Oct - 15 Dec 2019

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.

Slaughterhouse: Candid Camera

TheatreBelvoir Downstairs, Surry Hills, Sydney 16 Oct - 2 Nov 2019

Slaughterhouse: Candid Camera

Video and projection allows theatre makers and audiences to look into and beyond the world on stage, writes Slaughterhouse performer Tom Matthews.

Bell Shakespeare: 2020 Vision

SeasonSydney Opera House 29 Feb - 16 Nov 2020

Bell Shakespeare: 2020 Vision

Bell Shakespeare programs its first female Hamlet and The Comedy of Errors in its 30th birthday year.

Rosaline: Rewriting Romeo’s Ex

TheatreKings Cross Theatre, Kings Cross Hotel, Sydney 11 - 26 Oct 2019

Rosaline: Rewriting Romeo’s Ex

Before Juliet, there was Rosaline. Then Shakespeare made her disappear. Now Joanna Erskine makes space for Romeo's ex to have her say.

We Need to Talk About Colourblind Casting

Conversation 19 - 19 Oct 2019

We Need to Talk About Colourblind Casting

Actor Michelle Ny argues for conscious rather than colourblind casting. "I came from somewhere, I have a background, and I’m not ashamed of that."

Selling imagination

Conversation 19 - 19 Oct 2019

Selling imagination

Sydney's independent theatre scene creates great product, argues actor and producer Matthew Cheetham. But it struggles to sell it.

Indie Theatre on Shaky Foundations?

Conversation 19 - 19 Oct 2019

Indie Theatre on Shaky Foundations?

The sudden closure of an inner city venue points to a structural weakness in our independent sector, write KXT co-artistic directors Suzanne Millar and John Harrison.

The Producer: the invisible artist

Conversation 19 - 19 Oct 2019

The Producer: the invisible artist

Imogen Gardam, winner of the 2018 Rose Byrne Scholarship for Emerging Female Leader in the Arts, on why she looks forward to "disappearing back into the shadows".

The Myth of the General Audience

Conversation 19 - 19 Oct 2019

The Myth of the General Audience

The 2018 Philip Parsons Lecture: The myth of the general audience must go the way of the myth of the average Australian, says Alana Valentine.

Masters of the House: Who are Australia’s Extreme Theatregoers?

Theatre 19 - 19 Oct 2019

Masters of the House: Who are Australia’s Extreme Theatregoers?

Les Mis 1000 times? 85 (and a half) viewings of Wicked? Actor George Kemp goes in search of Australia's theatre obsessives.

Profiles

People

"theatre maker"

Artist, Writer

Tom Matthews

A Sydney-based theatre maker and performer.

Artist, Writer

Joanna Erskine

Joanna is a Sydney-based playwright and arts education specialist.

"the other theatre"

Artist, Writer

Eugene Lynch

Eugene Lynch is Artistic Director of Sydney's The Other Theatre.

"performer & writer"

Artist, Writer

Hannah Grace Fulton

A Sydney-based performer, writer and content creator.

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