Barry Lenny

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Reviewed by Ewart Shaw, Wednesday 28th May 2025. The Penelopiad was heralded appropriately by the song of sirens and the flashing red and blue lights of the fire engines. The false alarm was professionally managed, but how would the cast, in the dressing room below the stage, have felt? Had I stayed for the subsequent Q and A, I might have found out. As it was, the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild performance was delayed for only a few minutes.

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Reviewed by Barry Lenny, Friday 23rd May 2025. The State Theatre Company of South Australia continues its season with Looking for Alibrandi, produced by Brink Productions, written by playwright, Vidya Rajan, adapted from the novel by Melina Marchetta, and directed by Stephen Nicolazzo, the new Artistic Director of Brink. The novel was aimed at young adults and, by the time it was written in 1992, I was long past that definition, having already been working for a quarter of a century.

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Reviewed by Barry Lenny, Thursday 22nd May 2025. The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of South Australia expanded its performances beyond the comic operettas by that duo long ago, embracing musical theatre as well. The latest production is Stephen Sondheim’s 1981 semi-autobiographical musical, Merrily We Roll Along, under the detailed direction of Matt Smith.

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Reviewed by Barry Lenny, Friday 16th May 2025. Independent Theatre is presenting Nancy Gilsenan Hersage's 1983 adaptation of Judith Guest's first novel, Ordinary People, published in 1976. Artistic Director, Rob Croser, and Chair of the company, David Roach, have brought many Wonderful Productions to us since they began in 1984, and this is another worthy of adding to that long list. Conrad Jarrett, a boy in his late teens, was boating with his older brother, Buck.

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Reviewed by Ewart Shaw, Friday 9th May 2025. The world has changed a little in the forty-two years since La Cage Aux Folles opened on Broadway. Gay marriage is everywhere. Drag queens are so old-fashioned. The socio-sexual skirmish has a new focus. Now, the love stories shine out brighter than the rhinestones and ribbons. What’s left is what makes this Metropolitan Musical Theatre Company’s production so beautiful. It is very much about love and a sense of self-worth.