Stage shows
What does the circus have in common with Indigenous culture? Plenty, actually
Sure, there’s flips and tumbles and splits but for Harley Mann circus is all about connection.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
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Cristin Milioti has no time for your ‘happily ever after’ cliches
“I like playing complicated people,” says the star of Stan’s Made For Love. “I didn’t get into this to be a handbag to a man’s story.”
- by Alexis Soloski
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Need to save a cheesy musical about dancing seniors? Call Nancye Hayes
Despite being wildly uneven and afflicted by some lame music, how is it possible that Half Time is actually rather good?
- by John Shand
Young audience gets the last laugh at screen-obsessed parents
Friendship and adventure triumph in this stage adaptation of Alan Brough’s hit book Charlie and the War Against the Grannies.
- by Cassie Tongue
Blood-splattering theatrics: the unlikely stage hit heading back to Sydney
Writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa says there was a “perverse joy” in taking gruesome cult novel American Psycho and turning it into a musical-comedy.
- by Robert Moran
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Game of Thrones set for stage, producers consider Australian premiere
Writer George R.R. Martin said he is looking forward to telling the whole story and his “dream” is to bring the show to Australia.
- by Catherine Lambert
How to give it everything, eight shows a week: Hamilton cast on the year’s biggest show
Four stars of the blockbuster musical reveal what it’s like in the eye of the Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hurricane.
- by Louise Rugendyke
Why songs get stuck in our heads, and what to do about it
Musicals such as Hamilton are particularly ‘sticky’ in nature, but there is a simple trick to getting them out of our heads using an everyday grocery item.
- by Melissa Singer
Hamilton caused a rumble off Broadway, this time it’s giddy Zoom calls
Hamilton’s Thomas Kail says the hip-hop musical is a show that asks its actors to “bring themselves to it”. The director himself, however, has been working all this time from 16,000km away.
- by Garry Maddox
The hidden (and very personal) meanings behind Hamilton’s costumes
Making more than 700 items for the Australian production during a pandemic posed some unique challenges.
- by Melissa Singer
‘I am the novice here’: Avatar’s Sam Worthington returns to the stage
He’s made it big in Hollywood but Australian actor Sam Worthington is feeling nervous as he returns to the Sydney stage for the first time in over 22 years.
- by Helen Pitt