Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

November 12, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Hayes Theatre, October 26 8/10 This was a gutsy move. A more timid theatre may have shied from reopening with Stephen Sondheim’s biggest Broadway flop. But Merrily won’t flop this time, and singing It’s a Hit won’t be the excruciating experience it must have been for the cast in 1981.…

September 15, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

August 23 8/10 Let’s face it, Darlinghurst Theatre’s Thom Paine (Based on Nothing) in June of last year apart, streamed theatre seldom cuts it without TV-scale budgets. But what if you don’t try to provide vision? What if you just provide the sound? Suddenly a level of radio-play professionalism springs…

June 27, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Ensemble Theatre, June 16 6/10 Now listen closely, because I’m only going to say this once. A man called Kipps is played by an anonymous professional actor who, in turn, is played by Garth Holcombe, and a character called Actor is played by the real Kipps (who’s not an actor),…