Last Friday night, BADBADNOTGOOD returned to Sydney for one night only at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, delivering a performance that felt less like a gig and more like stepping inside a living, breathing electronic jazz session. Formed in…
A distinctly international crowd gathered outside the Sydney Opera House on a rain-soaked Wednesday night for Sammy Virji’s debut performance. British accents cut through the chatter as groups made their way inside for Sammy Virji’s debut live show. For a…
On a humid Sydney evening, a quick glance around suggested we might have been headed to a 90s Brixton nightclub, instead we were making our way to the steps at the Sydney Opera House forecourt, eagerly awaiting British dance music…
Afterglow, presented by Midnight Theatricals, currently playing at the Darlinghurst Playhouse, arrives toward the tail end of the Sydney Mardi Gras season and feels a little like the festival’s namesake — the afterglow itself. After the highs of some of…
It has been decades since I last saw Oliver! — a memory that takes me right back to Toowoomba City Hall — and sitting in Laycock Street Community Theatre watching Gosford Musical Society’s latest production felt like reconnecting with an…
Well Done Creative’s Queer Mardi Gras offering Head Over Heels lands at the Hayes Theatre, Sydney as a joyfully absurd, pop-fuelled celebration of identity, love and letting your freak flag fly. Built around the endlessly catchy songs of The Go-Go’s,…
There are plays that feel important, and then there are plays that feel urgent. The Normal Heart, presented by Sydney Theatre Company in the Drama Theatre at the Sydney Opera House, is emphatically the latter. Written more than forty years…
Suffolk is known for a few things. It’s aptly named ‘Suffolk Pink’ cottages, rolling British countryside and more famously, Ed Sheeran. From busking on the streets of his hometown to making the bold move to London at just seventeen years…
It’s not every day that the most famous sea shanty band in the world comes to Sydney. In fact – it’s never happened before. Straight from their home in Cornwall, the ‘buoy band’ Fisherman’s Friends are embarking on their first-ever…
There is something quietly thrilling about a show that knows exactly what it is and executes it with absolute confidence. Putting It Together, currently playing at the Foundry Theatre, is one of those rare gems: intimate, intelligent, and utterly intoxicating….