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2 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | John Shand |Peter McCallum |Cassie Tongue
By John Shand, Peter McCallum and Cassie Tongue April 6, 2025 — 12.56pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. MUSICAL THEATREAnnieCapitol Theatre, April 3Reviewed by CASSIE TONGUE★★★½That little redheaded orphan is back again. The comic strip-turned-musical has spawned three films, a live TV staging, and more than one sequel.
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1 month ago | 
smh.com.au | Bernard Zuel |Peter McCallum
By Bernard Zuel and Peter McCallum March 14, 2025 — 4.22pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. OPERADido & AeneasOpera Australia, Opera Queensland, CircaOpera House, March 13. Reviewed by PETER McCALLUM★★★★This combination of musical and circus artistry creates a twin pull on one’s attention, the two strands sometimes working harmoniously, sometimes in tension and occasionally in internecine subversion.
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1 month ago | 
theage.com.au | John Shand |Michael Ruffles |Peter McCallum
By John Shand, Michael Ruffles and Peter McCallumUpdated March 4, 2025 — 4.49pmfirst published at 12.31pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. MUSICGREEN DAYEngie Stadium, March 3Reviewed by MICHAEL RUFFLES★★★★American Idiot has no right to feel this urgent. The song is 20 years old but could have been written last weekend after recent Oval Office antics.
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2 months ago | 
watoday.com.au | Michael Ruffles |Peter McCallum |Cassie Tongue
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2 months ago | 
smh.com.au | Michael Ruffles |Peter McCallum |Cassie Tongue
By Michael Ruffles, Peter McCallum, Millie Muroi and Cassie Tongue February 15, 2025 — 12.32pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. MUSICAL THEATREHadestownTheatre Royal, February 14By CASSIE TONGUE★★★★½The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is one of the oldest stories we know: all gods and men, love and death, fear and faith.
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2 months ago | 
smh.com.au | Peter McCallum |Kayla Olaya |Harriet Cunningham
By Peter McCallum, Kayla Olaya and Harriet CunninghamUpdated January 30, 2025 — 11.23amfirst published January 24, 2025 — 5.57pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THEATREAriaEnsemble Theatre, January 29Until March 15Reviewed by HARRIET CUNNINGHAM★★★½Imagine a family gathering where you actually say what you think.
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2 months ago | 
watoday.com.au | Peter McCallum |Kayla Olaya |Harriet Cunningham
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
smh.com.au | John Shand |Bernard Zuel |Peter McCallum
SYDNEY FESTIVALJACKYBelvoir St Theatre, January 18Until February 2Reviewed by JOHN SHAND★★★½Most of us balance ambition with the fear of biting off more than we can chew. Jacky has begun to conquer his fear; to believe that he can find his place in the world both figuratively and literally; to carve out his own niche of lifestyle and adequate income in a white world, and eventually afford to buy his own flat in Melbourne. But at what cost?
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
smh.com.au | John Shand |Bernard Zuel |Peter McCallum
McElhinney is typically convincing playing a well-meaning hypocrite who’s prepared to chase funding from any source, however repugnant. She makes us both like Linda and cringe for her. Glenn, however, wins the cringe-worthiness stakes at a canter, and is perhaps Gillick’s ultimate creation. Retreating from a failed marriage, Glenn hires Jacky as a call-boy, whereupon he gradually reveals his naked racism, which becomes intolerable for both Jacky and a vocal first-night audience.
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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.
