Venue: White Bay Power Station (Rozelle NSW), May 1 – 3, 2024 Writer/Performer: Tommy Misa Performance Guide: Emma Maye Gibson Images by Joseph Mayers Theatre review The show begins with Tommy Misa describing a bittersweet moment, soon after their father’s death. Misa’s one person show Working Class Clown can be considered a commemorative piece, although most of it seems to be autobiographical, or perhaps the lines are intentionally blurred, for when we are told these stories about parent and child. Much to our chagrin, we all turn into our mothers and fathers eventually, but ..read more

Venue: Old Fitzroy Theatre (Woolloomooloo NSW), Apr 23 – 27, 2024 Playwright: Shay Debney Director: Julia Robertson Cast: Shay Debney Images by Julia Robertson Theatre review Shay Debney has lots of questions, but it is more likely that he is finding a way to communicate, than being genuinely inquisitive about so many different things. In his one-person show Do You Mind?, Debney demonstrates a burning desire to connect, so he keeps making queries in hopes of finding a way to bridge the gap. A lot of art is about that need for humans to see one another, and Debney’s show is ..read more

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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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