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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Suzie Miller on her Prima Facie follow-up Inter Alia: 'Boys are looking for male mentors. Instead they get the internet and porn' by Elissa Blake

Starring Rosamund Pike as a judge whose son is accused of sexual assault, a filmed version of the hit play lands in UK and Australian cinemas this month When Prima Facie premiered at the Sta…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Penn & Teller review " icons of stage magic celebrate 50 years in canny new Australian show by Elissa Blake

The maverick magicians return to the Sydney Opera House and beyond with a delightful new tour that emphasises the audience " and the doubters More summer essentials The uncomfortable bedfell…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]
Monday, January 13, 2025

These three actors played Hamlet. Now they're playing actors in Hamlet rehab by Elissa Blake

Brendan Cowell, Ewen Leslie and Toby Schmitz insist they're not playing themselves in Hamlet Camp " where actors go to recover not from drugs or sex, but Shakespeare Get our weekend culture …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]
Sunday, January 5, 2025

Siegfried and Roy: the superstar illusionists get an extravagant opera, complete with live magic by Elissa Blake

Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera tells the incredible story of the tiger-loving partners, from traumatic childhoods to Las Vegas stardom " and their shocking career-ending show Ma…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PM[SHARE]
Thursday, June 6, 2024

Benjamin Millepied's Romeo and Juliet Suite review " a surprising, often thrilling experience by Elissa Blake

Sydney Opera HouseChoreographer's queer, condensed version dissolves the boundaries of the stage and, in a brilliant passage of dancing, the walls of the Joan Sutherland theatre itself Get …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Hamilton returns to Australia with a groundbreaking debut among the cast: 'I'm super excited' by Elissa Blake

Cast as George Washington, in his first major musical, Googoorewon Knox says 'it's important to see a First Nation fella doing such a big thing' If Googoorewon (Goori) Knox had followed in f…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM[SHARE]
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Suzie Miller on Prima Facie and her Olivier win: 'London theatre circles see Australia as the daggy cousin' by Elissa Blake

The playwright's one-woman legal drama has gone from Australia to the West End and now Broadway. She talks about juggling law and theatre, and longing for home Get our weekend culture and li…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PM[SHARE]
Saturday, November 12, 2022

'People now trust that my ideas work': is this Australia's most acclaimed theatre director? by Elissa Blake

Kip Williams has revolutionised the stage with his use of 'cine-theatre', in shows such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and Jekyll and Hyde. Ahead of his take on The Tempest, he talks about hi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]
Friday, December 10, 2021

What went wrong at Circus Oz? The story behind the veteran company's 'devastating' downfall by Elissa Blake

After 44 years as Australia's national circus, members voted to reject the reform proposed by its funding partners " reluctantly choosing to close shop instead Details of the shock decision …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PM[SHARE]
Monday, June 7, 2021

The real Come From Aways: 'We've seen the show 118 times' by Elissa Blake

It is the hit musical inspired by a Canadian town's goodwill during 9/11. Twenty years on, its real-life characters say they're 'like family' now This September marks 20 years since the atta…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM[SHARE]
Monday, January 4, 2021

Sydney festival teeters 'on a knife-edge' ahead of Wednesday's opening by Elissa Blake

The first major Australian arts festival of 2021 will be a litmus test for those to come as it navigates shifting sands around the city's recent Covid outbreak Sydney festival, the first maj…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

'It's been deeply odd': how NIDA, Australia's most prestigious acting school, is managing the pandemic by Elissa Blake

For students of Sydney's National Institute for Dramatic Art, it hasn't exactly been the year they signed up for Final-year acting student Alex Stamell was deep into rehearsals for Will Eno'…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

'Theatre kept my mind so activated': the existential crisis of Sydney's 'standing ovation man' by Elissa Blake

Grahame Best sees more than 100 shows a year and rises to his feet to applaud every one. Now under lockdown, he's suffering Grahame Best keeps a ghost light burning 24/7 in his Wollongong ho…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Broadway composer Jeanine Tesori on why musical theatre is the slowest to recognise it has a gender problem by Elissa Blake

Of all the theatrical forms, musical theatre is slowest to recognise it has a gender problem, says the multi-award-winning Broadway composer Jeanine Tesori​ ahead of the Australian pr…

SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 06:23AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Smashing theatre's glass ceiling by Elissa Blake

Despite the gloomy statistics, female directors and playwrights are staking out new ground on stage.

SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 09:15AM[SHARE]

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