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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
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
REVIEW
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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
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
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
Arts
'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
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
Even though he is the very picture of 1980s excess, Patrick Bateman would make the ultimate modern-day social media enthusiast.
- by Louise Rugendyke
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World War I
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
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
It's not a conventional musical, but nor does it contain conventional ensemble dancing
- by John Shand