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Antony and Cleopatra review: Tawdry affair white-ants verse's grandeur
A challenging play claims another casualty.
- by John Shand
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South Park creators make Book of Mormon one of the funniest musicals ever
Had the creators Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone not called this The Book of Mormon, they could have called it Teeth.
- by John Shand
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Theatre star John Bell on the dramatic night when Paris nearly burned
When Allied Forces advanced on Paris in 1944, Hitler screamed that the city was to be obliterated. On the eve of a new play, director John Bell describes a persuasive diplomat encouraged the key German general to ignore orders.
- by John Bell
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Actor, musician and presenter Zindzi Okenyo on taking risks and self care
Zindzi Okenyo isn't afraid of a challenge - she's forged a successful career as a theatre and television actor, Playschool presenter and musician.
- by Melanie Kembrey
Lethal Indifference review: Shining a light on violence behind closed doors
A woman is killed by her partner or ex-partner each week in Australia. This should be a national outrage.
- by Joyce Morgan
Top Girls review: Women and power back on the table in Caryl Churchill's feminist feast
Three decades on, Caryl Churchill's play has renewed currency.
- by Joyce Morgan
How a climate change play got Bolt and Breitbart News hot under the collar
Playwright David Finnigan has a slew of conservative commentators to thank for reshaping his new play Kill Climate Deniers.
- by Helen Pitt
Top Girls still has plenty to say in the #MeToo era
In 1984, this treatise on gender politics – what professional women needed to sacrifice in order to attain power in a male-dominated world – impressed my friends in the all-female cast.
- by Helen Pitt
Metamorphoses review: Water, water everywhere – but less poetry
Ambitious adaptation of Ovid's masterwork is theatrically lavish, but poetically dry.
- by John Shand
ALONE experience review: Forget what's normal. Go on a blind date with yourself
This might be the most unique Valentines gift ever for the brave at heart.
- by Cameron Woodhead
An Act of God review: Gags lacking punchlines
Religion has to be humanity's single most catastrophic invention. With its decrees and wars measured in lives lost, children orphaned, women raped, bodies tortured and hearts wracked with guilt and malice, it makes greed, weapons manufacturing and even nuclear bombs look as benign as soup spoons.
- by John Shand