Reviews

Theatre review: Underneath Ms Archer, St Martins Theatre
This is that rare kind of play: sparky, fast-paced and funny.

Book review: The Crying Room, Gretchen Shirm
A (slow) moving meditation on the bonds and frays of family ties.

Theatre review: Tiny Beautiful Things, Bille Brown Theatre
The best advice comes from an unlikely source in the stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s well-crafted book.

Music review: Winter Nights, Walsh Bay Arts Precinct, Sydney
Greatest hits presented by the Sydney Chamber Choir strike a chord for young and old.

Dance review: Yuldea, Sydney Opera House
The clash of traditional Indigenous life and atomic testing at Maralinga.

Exhibition reviews: eX de Medici: Beautiful Wickedness and Michael Zavros: The Favourite, QAGOMA
Two Irresistible exhibitions presents a unique double blockbuster of the work of contemporary artists who offer separate yet synergistic practices.

Dance review: STATE, State Theatre Centre of WA
Two exciting works of contemporary ballet, inspired by musicality, vulnerability and destruction.

Theatre review: Exiles, fortyfivedownstairs
Bloomsday’s adaptation of James Joyce’s ‘Exiles’ is a fascinating exploration into fidelity, monogamy and disentangling their conflation within the institutional…

Performance review: Break, Metro Arts, Brisbane
A story told from the inside out – Break is a dance work about a body reaching its limits.

Theatre review: Puffs, Clubhouse Theatre, Townsville
A strong ensemble deliver an energetic performance of this Harry Potter parody.