Image Credit: Daniel East Photography The Drowsy Chaperone 26 July - 4 August 2024 Fire Station 101, Ipswich Swich Up Productions and Ipswich Civic Centre present the Tony Award-winning The Drowsy Chaperone, a send-up of classic Broadway musicals. Get ready for witty commentary, outrageous characters (think gangsters disguised as pastry chefs!), and show-stopping song and... Continue Reading →
Review: Dark Vanilla Jungle & Tonight with Donny Stixx (The X Collective)
The X Collective opened their 2024 season with a devastating duet of shattering psyches in Tonight with Donny Stixx and Dark Vanilla Jungle. Wayne McPhee directed these back-to-back Philip Ridley plays, each focused on the experiences and delusions of a traumatised young person and delivered as a deeply engaging monologue. Philip Ridley is an English... Continue Reading →
What’s On: The Woman in Black (PW Productions, Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions)
John Waters and Danel MacPherson for The Woman In Black (c) James Reiser The Woman in Black 30 April - 11 May Playhouse Theatre, QPAC, South Bank Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story The Woman in Black comes dramatically alive in Stephen Mallatratt’s stage adaptation, promising to be a terrifying live theatre experience and a brilliantly... Continue Reading →
Review: Closer (La Boite Theatre)
Kevin Spink and Sophia Emberson-Bain (front) and Anna McGahan (back), photographed by Stephen Henry La Boite have opened their 2024 season with the return of Patrick Marber's engrossing and entangled drama Closer, directed by La Boite’s Artistic Director Courtney Stewart. Closer weaves a twisted web of deception and desire that ensnares four Londoners over the... Continue Reading →
Review: The Wolves (Ad Astra)
Tainika Kane-Potaka (left, back) as #13, Emily Marszalek (centre back) as #46, Madeline Armit (right, back) as #11, and Sharnee Tones (front) as #25. Image credit: Justin Harrison Ad Astra have kicked off 2024 with Sarah DeLappe’s drama The Wolves, transforming their black box theatre into an indoor soccer pitch where all the guts and... Continue Reading →