Coinciding with the recent release of the film, Wicked mania was in full force as the talented cast reminded the audience that little compares to the magic of a live stage extravaganza.
Melinda Webster
Germinating a homegrown story with international relevance makes for a riveting theatrical ride in Black Swan State Theatre Company’s final production for 2024, The Seed.
Tanya MacNaughton
Big on heart, hair and humour, Hairspray The Musical is musical theatre at its feel-good best, packed with a positive message, catchy tunes and oodles of laughs.
Seeing Black Swan State Theatre Company’s latest season of The Children a day after Australia records its hottest ever winter temperature is cold comfort in the face of this devastatingly compelling drama.
Arthur Miller’s 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Death Of A Salesman has gripped audiences for generations and continues to do so with Anthony LaPaglia at the helm of this Australian production.
Grease is absolutely still the word after the all-new Australian production bought the Rydell High rock ‘n’ roll party musical to Crown Theatre Perth on opening night.
Suzie Miller’s play Prima Facie takes grippingly confronting theatre to a new level.
Written by Suzie Miller and starring Australian screen and stage stalwart Heather Mitchell, RBG: Of Many, One is an inspirational theatre experience about Ruth Bader Ginsburg that stirs the soul.
Two gifted actors, a bare stage, and some amazing lighting and sound effects are enough to keep the audience entrhalled.
Tim Sadleir
With excellent performance, this period play that touches on themes of coercive control and manipulation, has plenty for modern audiences.
Belle Taylor
With outstanding vocals and a raw energy bursting from the cast, this is a show with a throbbing pulse.
Mere weeks after farewelling a musical honouring the story of rock’n’roll queen Tina Turner, the life of the king of rock’n’roll has entered the Crown Theatre Perth building in Elvis: A Musical Revolution.
A dark and stormy night at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts for Decibel New Music Ensemble’s take on the David Lynch Twin Peaks movie, Fire Walk With Me.
David Cusworth
Freeze Frame Opera’s kid-friendly version of Mozart’s Magic Flute has nothing on the original in terms of weird plot lines, presenting the music to a new generation in a production full of colour and movement
Bright and bold Baroque strings set the scene for HIP Company’s vivid recreation of John Eccles’ 18th century opera Semele on Sunday.
Sun gently fades over a gibbous moon in an equinox sky as pastel shades light the stark walls of the Quarry Amphitheatre for Puccini — master of sublime arias and visceral “verismo” opera.
Long Lost Loves (And Grey Suede Gloves) presents mezzo Anna Dowsley and pianist Michael Curtain in William Bolcom-Arnold Weinstein cabaret songs and a confected narrative at Perth Concert Hall for Musica Viva.
Retelling the complicated past of a beloved former star in musical form is no easy feat. Tina — The Tina Turner Musical strikes the right balance of performance and pain as it charts the icon’s life.
Jade Jurewicz
Audience become actors, hunters become the prey in Sophia Brous’ Invisible Opera at Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre for Perth Festival.
Noongar opera comes of age at The Maj this week with Wundig wer Wilura, Gina Williams’ and Guy Ghouse’s legend of star-crossed lovers from Ballardong country, York.
How does one go from performing at the grand final of Australia’s Got Talent in front of about two million viewers to mesmerising a low-key audience at a regional theatre?
Jessica Moroney
Wonder years of childhood meet the mystery of human existence in Freeze Frame Opera’s colourful production of The Little Prince at UWA’s Octagon Theatre this week.
There’s a reason why Chicago holds the title for the longest-running American musical in Broadway history, and this latest production is criminally good by an Australian cast at the top of their game.
Mandy and Hayley McElhinney’s debut play Dirty Birds is an unadulterated evening of joyful, hopeful and undeniably entertaining theatre.
