2022 Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwriting Award-winner, Es & Flo, is a tender and moving portrayal of the powerful bond between two women across the decades. As the play opens, we meet Es on her birthday and discover that her memory isn’t what it used to be. Peppered with details of the couple's life together, revelations... Continue Reading →
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics announced this week that it is expanding its mission to honor Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, across a variety of inaugural categories, beginning with the 2022-2023 theater season. Following GALECA’s established Dorian film and TV honors, its Dorian Theater Awards will celebrate both mainstream and LGBTQ+ themed productions. While... 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 →
Playwright Thomas Bradshaw retains the spirit of one of Chekhov's most celebrated works while bringing it sharply into present day America with his adaptation, The Seagull/Woodstock, NY, currently receiving its world premiere Off-Broadway produced by The New Group at Pershing Square Signature Center. As the title suggests, the action has been transposed from rural Russia... Continue Reading →
Sydney's Hayes Theatre is taking us back a century this WorldPride season with the roaring twenties set, classic 1940s feel-good musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The Hayes has really gone to town with this production; there are big voices, a big marketing push, and a big set (perhaps a little too big for the space).... Continue Reading →
There’s a simple pleasure to be had in sitting back and watching everything on stage being done well. Belvoir’s new queer family dramedy, Blessed Union, is seamlessly terrific. Funny, emotive, and probing. Flawless. No notes. I could end the review here, but obviously I won't... Ruth (Danielle Cormack) and Judith (Maude Davey) have always upheld... Continue Reading →
Update: The Village! A Disco Daydream runs in repertory with Nora Burns’s David’s Friend at New York's SoHo Playhouse July 10th - August 9th, 2024. Ever dodged a legion of hurtling luxury baby strollers on Bleecker Street, only to run into a gaggle of tourists taking selfies outside Carrie's stoop on Perry, and dreamed of... Continue Reading →
Following acclaimed runs at Brisbane Powerhouse and The Blue Room Theatre, Zac Callaghan’s one-person show, Queer As Flux, finally hits Sydney highlighting how all of us, as individuals and as a culture, are constantly in flux, transitioning, and becoming something new. When you come to think of it, perhaps we're all a bit trans. In... Continue Reading →
Tylwyth revisits the group of characters first seen ten years ago in Sherman Associate Artist Daf James’ award-winning Llwyth. A theatrical sequel, yes, but one where if you’re new to the characters, you won’t feel lost. If you are familiar with the previous play though, you’ll be rewarded with plenty of enjoyable nuggets and references.... Continue Reading →
Sydney Theatre Company Artistic Director, and director of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Kip Williams knows when he’s onto a good thing. After the breakout success of his technically and artistically brilliant The Picture of Dorian Gray, he’s picked another piece of transformative, gothic fiction to bring to the stage with the... Continue Reading →
