Venue: Old Fitzroy Theatre (Woolloomooloo NSW), Apr 17 – 27, 2024 Playwright: Nick Coyle Director: Nick Coyle Cast: Sandy Gore, Anna Houston, Ed Oxenbould, Andre de Vanny Images by Phil Erbacher Theatre review Nick Coyle’s Sparkling Darkly features five short monologues in which public speaking takes an unsuspected turn. Providing contexts are a wedding reception, a retirement party, a courthouse, a funeral and a radio station, all places where a certain decorum is expected, but things are not quite what they seem, when seen through Coyle’s wild imagination. Macabre humour is order ..read more

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Venue: Hayes Theatre Co (Potts Point NSW), Apr 12 – May 5, 2024 Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Don Black Director: Blazey Best Cast: Erin Clare Images by John McRae Theatre review There was a time, approximately half-a-century ago, when men would create shows about women who had no interest for anything else but love. They would dream up pretty young things who wanted nothing other than to find a man, presumably a specimen much like themselves. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s 1979 creation Tell Me on a Sunday is a one-act song-cycle, that sees “the girl” wandering from Engla ..read more

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Venue: Seymour Centre (Chippendale NSW), Apr 11 – May 4, 2024 Playwright: Samuel D. Hunter Director: Craig Baldwin Cast: Anthony Gooley, Elijah Williams Images by Phil Erbacher Theatre review The two men in A Case for the Existence of God live in different worlds, but when Ryan engages Keith as mortgage broker, they become unexpected friends, and discover that they “share a specific kind of sadness”. Samuel D. Hunter’s play is a sensitive work, about the bond between men, and the tenderness that is rarely acknowledged , but that is crucial to the health and wellbeing of any mode ..read more

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Venue: New Theatre (Newtown NSW), Mar 19 – Apr 13, 2024 Playwright: Lally Katz Director: Tiffany Wong Cast: Callum Alexander, Georgia Britt, Tamara Foglia Castañeda, Lisa Kelly, James Lau, Alyona Popova, Dallas Reedman, Renae Valastro, Luke Visentin Images by Chris Lundie Theatre review Heartbroken from being dumped by a boyfriend, Lally goes back to her childhood haunts in the USA, where she finds that others too are in search of more innocent times. Lally Katz’s Atlantis is about a woman’s struggle to come to grips with reality, using the eponymous ancient fictional island ..read more