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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
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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
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Good Muslim Boy review: A true coming-of-age tale unlike any other
Powerful autobiographical theatre that will leave you with a rich taste of how broad a mosque Islam really is.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Stage
The Fabulous Singlettes review: Vibrant celebration of the songs of yesteryear
Retro tunes delivered with soul and sass – you can hardly go wrong.
- by Cameron Woodhead
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
Deadly attack now the subject of a musical to open Mardi Gras
On June 24, 1973, an arson attack at the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans' French Quarter, killed 32 people who were drinking there that night. Until the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, this was the deadliest known attack on a gay club in US history. The chief suspect, Roger Dale Nunez, who had been ejected from the bar earlier that day, committed suicide in 1974.
- by Helen Pitt
Mother review: Noni Hazlehurst delivers the performance of a lifetime
Noni Hazlehurst brings a towering performance to a play about compassion, stoicism, survival and regrets.
- by John Shand
Entertainment
Nothing is black and white in Queensland Theatre's season opener
Nakkiah Lui discusses the year ahead, her thoughts on Australia Day and her upcoming Queensland Theatre production that's sure to entertain.
- by Bernadette Condren