Reviews
Musical review: Mamma Mia!, Lyric Theatre
The feel-good extravaganza featuring ABBA hits returns for a tour across the country.
Theatre review: Hymns for the Witching Hour, Brown's Mart Theatre, Darwin
A personal story that explores religion, identity and family legacy through narrative, dance and music.
Book review: Call me Marlowe, Catherine de Saint Phalle
Among many other things, this novel canvasses love, reconciliation and friendship.
Book review: House of Longing, Tara Calaby
An historical fiction that navigates the world of women in Victorian asylums.
Exhibition review: Terra Nova, Sturt Gallery
Seventy years of Australian studio pottery celebrated in an exhibition that puts technical excellence and a passion for material first.
Book review: Blackwater, Jacqueline Ross
A slow build Gothic debut has ties to historical Tasmania.
Theatre review: Worstward Ho, Theatre Works
A rarely presented Beckett play is typically experimental and interior in nature.
Light event review: Dark Spectrum, Vivid Sydney
Dark Spectrum taps a range of emotions across immersive sound and light, but ends on a high note of exhilaration…
Theatre review: Jacky, Arts Centre Melbourne
Some uncomfortable viewing in this masterful play about sex, race and brotherhood.
Concert review: Ali McGregor and the MSO, Hamer Hall
A one-night only showcase of hybrid musicality.