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Jan 11, 2025 | 
watoday.com.au | George Palathingal |Kate Prendergast
MUSICALTHE LORD OF THE RINGS – A MUSICAL TALEState Theatre, January 11Until February 1Reviewed by KATE PRENDERGAST★★★Adapting Tolkien’s 1100-plus-page epic to a stage musical of less than three hours was always going to be a task as tough as that tackled by Frodo. However, where that halfling courageously conquered all odds with the help of his friends, this production directed by Paul Hart on the first stop of its Australia tour cannot surmount its challenges.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
smh.com.au | Peter McCallum |James Jennings |Kate Prendergast
By Peter McCallum, James Jennings and Kate Prendergast January 5, 2025 — 1.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. SYDNEY FESTIVALCinderellaOpera AustraliaJoan Sutherland Theatre, Opera HouseJanuary 2Reviewed by PETER McCALLUM★★★A few children’s voices lightly peppered the conversation and music before and during Massenet’s Cinderella (Cendrillon), unshooshed and oblivious to operatic convention and pretension.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
timeout.com | Kate Prendergast
Photograph: Little Trojan/Phil Erbacher PreviousNext /6 Photograph: Little Trojan/Phil Erbacher PreviousNext /6 Photograph: Little Trojan/Phil Erbacher PreviousNext /6 Photograph: Little Trojan/Phil Erbacher PreviousNext /6 Photograph: Little Trojan/Phil Erbacher PreviousNext /6 Photograph: Little Trojan/Phil Erbacher PreviousNext /6 Review 4 out of 5 stars Sydney audiences can't stop talking about this this haunting psychological thriller that raises questions about cellular memory, identity...
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Kate Prendergast
By Kate Prendergast November 15, 2024 — 1.18pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTARCapitol Theatre, November 14Until January 26Reviewed by KATE PRENDERGAST★★★★½Not long after its 1971 Broadway premiere, Jesus Christ Superstar had its first official Australian production at the Capitol Theatre. Fifty-one years later, and now a global phenomenon, JC has risen again at the Capitol.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | James Jennings |Kate Prendergast
By James Jennings and Kate Prendergast November 5, 2024 — 11.23am, 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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Nov 2, 2024 | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Peter McCallum |Bernard Zuel |Kate Prendergast |John Shand
The nation imagines itself in many ways – perhaps most powerfully in its cultural works. Yet the “creation stories” of these creations are often much more complicated than most of us could fathom. In Anthony Weigh’s bio-fic theatre Sunday, we’re invited into a small, intoxicating world of rebellious liaisons and love, patronage and power.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
timeout.com | Kate Prendergast
Photograph: WildThingProduction/Carlita Sari PreviousNext /5 Photograph: WildThingProduction/Carlita Sari PreviousNext /5 Photograph: WildThingProduction/Carlita Sari PreviousNext /5 Photograph: WildThingProduction/Carlita Sari PreviousNext /5 Photograph: WildThingProduction/Carlita Sari PreviousNext /5 Theatre, Drama Seymour Centre, Darlington 4 Oct19 Oct 2024 Recommended Review 3 out of 5 stars Matthew Whittet's critically-acclaimed play returns to the Sydney stage, but does it still have...
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Kate Prendergast |Chantal Nguyen |Peter McCullum |Peter McCallum
By Kate Prendergast, Chantal Nguyen and Peter McCullum August 16, 2024 — 6.21pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Kate Prendergast |Chantal Nguyen |Peter McCullum |Peter McCallum
THEATREPRIDE AND PREJUDICE: AN ADAPTATION IN WORDS AND MUSICPlayhouse, Sydney Opera House, August 15 Until September 1Reviewed by KATE PRENDERGAST★★★½ What a strikingly bold and peculiar endeavour - to program something as quaint as a reading of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice at the Opera House. This is an unabashedly earnest yet often delightful homage to the revolutionary Regency-era novelist. It is also an argument for the power of unadorned language and music to hold an audience captive.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
timeout.com | Kate Prendergast
Photograph: Brown Women Comedy/@ashanuvillaPreviousNext/3Photograph: Brown Women Comedy/@ashanuvillaPreviousNext/3Photograph: Brown Women Comedy/@ashanuvillaPreviousNext/3Comedy, Stand UpRecommendedReview4 out of 5 starsEveryone is welcome at this refreshing show, where a girl gang of hilarious South Asian comedians are in the spotlightSunday 12 May 2024FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsAppAdvertisingTime Out saysA comedy line-up with no white men?
