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What it's like in the room where it happens: the Hamilton phenomenon

What it's like in the room where it happens: the Hamilton phenomenon

It is the musical that has captured the world's attention, but what is it about Hamilton that makes it so good?

  • by Nathanael Cooper

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How Sydney secured the hottest musical in the world
Stage shows

How Sydney secured the hottest musical in the world

Hamilton's four-year journey from Broadway to Sydney began with a text message and ended with an intervention from Gladys Berejiklian.

  • by Nathanael Cooper
David Bowie's musical Lazarus is a big mistake
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David Bowie's musical Lazarus is a big mistake

Despite the genius writers behind it, this strange and incomprehensible production is simply not good art.

  • by Cameron Woodhead
Sydney secures Australian premiere of Hamilton
Performing arts

Sydney secures Australian premiere of Hamilton

Sydney has won a fiercely fought theatrical battle in Australia to secure the premiere of the award-winning musical Hamilton.

  • by Nathanael Cooper
With a straight razor in one hand Anthony Warlow shows his grisly side
Performing arts

With a straight razor in one hand Anthony Warlow shows his grisly side

Cauliflowers have proved the ideal stand-in for people's throats.

  • by John Bailey
'Beautiful': Playwright recalls working with David Bowie on Lazarus
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'Beautiful': Playwright recalls working with David Bowie on Lazarus

One of the music legend's final projects opens in Melbourne this month.

  • by Stephanie Bunbury
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'Bit of a bastard' can't take shine from dazzling production
Review
Arts

'Bit of a bastard' can't take shine from dazzling production

This professional revival of Barnum, the circus musical is the first in Australia since the 1980s, and it’s a dazzling event crammed with marvels.

  • by Cameron Woodhead
How American Psycho the Musical pulls apart its antihero Patrick Bateman

How American Psycho the Musical pulls apart its antihero Patrick Bateman

Even though he is the very picture of 1980s excess, Patrick Bateman would make the ultimate modern-day social media enthusiast.

  • by Louise Rugendyke
Anzac musical a massive gamble on legend of Simpson and his donkey
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Anzac musical a massive gamble on legend of Simpson and his donkey

Ian Gerrard has remortgaged his family home to fund the 34-song musical he has been working on for more than a decade.

  • by Julie Power
The Last Five Years review: Like two lovers passing each other on trains

The Last Five Years review: Like two lovers passing each other on trains

Jason Robert Brown's ingenious musical depicts an affair in which the two lovers pass each other like trains steaming in opposite directions

  • by John Shand
Saturday Night Fever review: Dazzling dancing steals the show

Saturday Night Fever review: Dazzling dancing steals the show

It's not a conventional musical, but nor does it contain conventional ensemble dancing

  • by John Shand