When Larry Kramer first staged his furious play, The Normal Heart, in 1985 at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis in New York, it was an uncompromising demand for action. It is now revered as a seminal piece of activist theater. As queer communities in many parts of the world face a rollback of rights... Continue Reading →
The bottom line is, yes, Overflow is as good as everyone says it is, go see it! The return season of Overflow, a wickedly funny and fiery.one-person play that beautifully illustrates the life of a young trans woman, lives up to all of the acclaim it has received since its Australian debut in 2022. Cornered... Continue Reading →
Legendary performer Taylor Mac and musical director Matt Ray’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music broke ground with its monumental scope and vision, earned the duo a slew of awards (including a Pulitzer Prize nomination) and became the subject of a fascinating HBO documentary made by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman which premiered at Tribeca... Continue Reading →
One of Australia’s most prominent nonbinary performers, Seann Miley Moore continues to make their fabulous mark on television—they've appeared on both The X-Factor in the UK and Australia's The Voice—and on stage—most recently earning rave reviews as Angel in Rent at the Sydney Opera House. A headliner at Sydney WorldPride earlier this year, their most... Continue Reading →
You get the impression that the cast of Belvoir’s new production of Into The Woods said "fuck it!" and went for some big swings in the rehearsal room, and if pays off… mostly. Your mileage may vary, but you can’t accuse this ensemble of complacency. The whole evening is full of that sense of community... Continue Reading →
It’s hard enough to get a good man to fall in love with you, but worse to discover that the “other woman” vying for his attention… is you! A new, updated version of Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane’s 1960s musical On A Clear Day You Can See Forever has premiered in Sydney and it... Continue Reading →
Philip Quast is musical theatre royalty. A frequent Sondheim collaborator and Olivier Award-winner, who has commanded the stages of Lincoln Center, the Royal Albert Hall, and the UK's National Theatre. Now he’s packing the relatively petite space of Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre for an autobiographical cabaret titled, The Road I Took. Quast is a towering figure,... Continue Reading →
Esther (Janet Anderson) is lacking definition. She is asking the people in her life to describe her in a single word or phrase. The word she uses for herself is “collapsible”, like one of those chairs. Stable one moment and folded over the next. She has broken up with her girlfriend and lost her job,... Continue Reading →
Renowned HIV+ theatre maker and queer arts producer Jeremy Goldstein surveys Sydney WorldPride Arts for The Queer Review, and finds a radically inclusive multi-artform festival of gender, identity, and sexuality. Beyond the Mardi Gras and the usual circuit parties, WorldPride Arts reinvents the harbour city as one of the world’s greatest LGBTQIA+ cultural destinations. I... Continue Reading →
Edward Albee’s pedigree as the chronicler of domestic dysfunction is well earned and the Sydney Theatre Company’s new production of The Goat or, Who is Sylvia revels in the nasty details. Dark comedies don’t get much darker than this, and when we say "the goat", we don't mean "the greatest of all time". Martin and... Continue Reading →
