

The Borgias Spectacular Homecoming
✮✮✮✮ Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia Palau de les Arts Reina SofÃa Emilio Sagi | Fabio Biondi It was 33 years ago that Emilio Sagi, former...


Three Starkly Different Twentieth-Century Ballets
✮✮✮ Pina Bausch/William Forsythe/Hans van Manen English National Ballet Sadler's Wells | London Prowling prima-donnas, solemn couplings,...


The Best 'Playvie' in Town
✮✮✮✮ Simon McBurney's The Kid Stays in the Picture The Royal Court Theatre | London directed by Simon McBurney Is it a play? Sort of. Is...


A World Without Love
✮✮✮ 1/2 Shakespeare's Richard III Bell Shakespeare | Sydney directed by Peter Evans Born ugly, Richard never understood what it is to be...


The Pursuit of Happiness
✮✮✮✮ Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Deutsches Theater | Berlin directed by Bastian Kraft Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman...


When in Rome...
✮✮✮✮ Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies Barbican Theatre | London directed by Ivo van Hove Politics can be murder. In the current climate of...


At the End of a Tether
✮✮✮✮ Angus Cerini's The Bleeding Tree Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Lee Lewis A man has been killed by his wife and two...


Enter the Dragon
✮✮✮ 1/2 Lucy Kirkwood's Chimerica Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Kip Williams Massacres, no matter how catastrophic, can get...


Choosing Good Over Evil
✮✮✮ 1/2 Shôn Dale-Jones' The Duke Adelaide Festival | Adelaide directed by Shôn Dale-Jones The Duke is entirely a one-man show, with Shôn...


A Nature of Self-Destruction and a Very Big Head
✮✮✮✮ Handel's Saul Adelaide Festival Barrie Kosky | Erin Helyard Stories of narcissism are more relevant than ever. In our age of...