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Aug 31, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Bridget Davies |Andrew Fuhrmann |Tony Way |Jessica Nicholas
By Bridget Davies, Andrew Fuhrmann, Tony Way, Jessica Nicholas and Barney ZwartzUpdated September 1, 2024 — 12.45pmfirst published August 30, 2024 — 12.28pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Bridget Davies |Barney Zwartz
"tried to elopebut the pope said nope... the rules were so outdatedus two wanted to get X-ratedsoon, excommunicatedeverybody chill, it's totes God's will" Which is totes funny, though when the contest devolves into trauma Olympics (and the queens start comparing the number of their miscarriages to win) the lone survivor, Henry's last wife Catherine Parr (Giorgia Kennedy), launches a feminist "historemix", liberating them all from King Henry's shadow. No weak link exists among the remaining queens.
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May 24, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Bridget Davies
OPERATosca ★ ★ ★ ★ Margaret Court Arena, until May 30 You can't blame an opera company for trying. With the State Theatre closed for renovations, the CBD theatres occupied by musicals and an opera fraternity long dissatisfied with its offering - Opera Australia had to try something different. Coupled with a recently announced $4.9 million operating loss, new artistic director Jo Davies was always going to need to find innovative ways to appease Melbourne's operatic appetite.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Bridget Davies |Sonia Nair |Andrew Fuhrmann |Cameron Woodhead
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The tennis is over, Taylor’s tickets have been snapped up and you’ve already visited the Triennial, so what should you do next? Our theatre, opera and dance critics have your next events – big and small – sorted.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Cameron Woodhead |Sonia Nair |Bridget Davies |Andrew Fuhrmann
SUNSET BOULEVARD "All right, Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." Billy Wilder's black comic Hollywood noir Sunset Boulevard (1950) ends with one of the most famous film quotes of all time, manically delivered to camera by Norma Desmond, a deluded silent film goddess who - murderously - cannot accept her fame has faded. Evergreen diva Sarah Brightman will play Norma in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation, bringing a splash of international celebrity to the latest revival.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
smh.com.au | Andrew Fuhrmann |Bridget Davies
OPERAMaria Callas: A Concert in Hologram ★★★★Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Hamer Hall, December 7 As the click-clacking of the soprano's heels beckoned her arrival to centre stage, the crowd in Hamer Hall held its breath. Would she be just as we imagined? Or some operatic conjuring of cheap tricks? There are special few singers so legendary even a shadow of them might still dazzle after death. La Divina, as she was known, is certainly one of them. Maria Callas never sang in Australia.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Andrew Fuhrmann |Bridget Davies
By Andrew Fuhrmann and Bridget Davies December 8, 2023 — 12.52pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes a children’s classic told through ballet, and a concert by a performer who never performed here when she was alive.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
theage.com.au | Vyshnavee Wijekumar |Kate Lahey |Bridget Davies
That said, it didn't quell attendees from flailing limbs (and let's be honest, probably putting out a back or two) as if they were auditioning for Soul Train when the opening chords of I'm Every Woman or Ain't Nobody bellowed out of the pristine sound system. Hands were thrown into the sky. Memories of the hedonism in the nightclubs of yesteryear resurfaced. It wasn't perfect, but my god it was fun.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
smh.com.au | Vyshnavee Wijekumar |Kate Lahey |Bridget Davies
Sometimes country music is, yes, all about beer and trucks (no complaints). But in some of its finest moments it is three supremely talented women with no trucks left to give. The Chicks opened their show at Rod Laver Arena on Monday with Gaslighter - the title track from their 2020 album that draws from singer Natalie Maines' divorce.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
theage.com.au | Vyshnavee Wijekumar |Kate Lahey |Bridget Davies
Anna Cordingley's design crafts meticulously observed locales for this smeared kaleidoscope of small-town gothic, from a bloodstained laundromat to the inebriated confines of a seedy karaoke bar. And a large and talented cast has been assembled to play Hope Hill's denizens. You won't be able to glean every jot and tittle of their stories in one play-through, though you'll be able to deduce much from what you do see.
