Tom Crennan 5/12/25 Tom Crennan 5/12/25

Various Characters Review

Šime Knežević’s 2025 play Various Characters approaches with care and confusion the condition of Australian multiculturalism. A coming-of-age tale of multiple teenagers living in socially turbulent mid-2000s Sydney, the play never fully realises its focal point, nor answers the many questions it raises before the curtains close.

Stella Feltham 4/10/25 Stella Feltham 4/10/25

The Intelligence of Contemporary Art - Review

The Museum of Contemporary Art’s autumn 2025 season celebrates the diversity of Australian Contemporary Art with two exciting new exhibitions: ‘The Intelligence of Painting’, which features the work of fourteen women artists for whom the paint medium is a vital part of their practice, and Warraba Weatherall’s ‘Shadow and Substance’, the first solo show by the Kamilaroi artist. ‘The Intelligence of Painting’ will run until 20 July 2025, while Weatherall’s work can be viewed until 21 September 2025. These two exhibitions are wildly different – just as the contemporary art scene itself is diverse and unpredictable.

Nathan Phillis 5/1/24 Nathan Phillis 5/1/24

SUDS Slot 4, 2024: Deathwatch, a review

Whilst these adaptations are perfectly fine, there’s an anachronism that can accompany any production put to stage from another era. There’s merit in rote for rote recreations, but I will always prefer a distortion of a classic akin to what Zoe Le Marinel, Jasmine Jenkins, and their team have put to the stage with SUDS Slot 4’s Deathwatch (1947) by Jean Genet.

Miles Hiroshi Huỳnh 11/8/23 Miles Hiroshi Huỳnh 11/8/23

'Troy's House' (2023) SUDS: Review

The liminal area between teendom and adulthood, between Sydney and Melbourne, between friends and enemies, between ad breaks. Everything that happens within is transitional and temporary: “all we do [at Troy’s house] is recount the last event and talk about the next one.”

Zoe Hercus 10/23/23 Zoe Hercus 10/23/23

All the girls love a sweet painted lady

Why my favourite Elton John songs are filled with queer sex and prostitutes.

Sandra Kallarakkal 9/25/23 Sandra Kallarakkal 9/25/23

bAKEHOUSE's 'Human Activity' at KXT Broadway: Review

There’s a heavy weight here. Human Activity bears it exceptionally well.

Hugo Anthony Hay 9/19/23 Hugo Anthony Hay 9/19/23

I was caught walking home with a pep in my step: 'Make Love, Not Instruments' by Hat Trick Review

‘The Spare Keys’ in Make Love, Not Instruments take you by the hand on a vocal journey, sonically stunning with a rich setlist of showtunes, mid-century love songs and modern belters.

Joseph Arabit, Aki Green and Sophia Ying 6/27/23 Joseph Arabit, Aki Green and Sophia Ying 6/27/23

Coffee to cure your architectural in(digest)ion

Coffee to the architect is what sexual frustration is to the engineer. A point of conversation, a particular quirk, one’s whole personality.

Simone Maddison 6/7/23 Simone Maddison 6/7/23

Kneeling at the altar of a Preacher’s Daughter

I walked slowly into the crowd, a sea of five hundred poised to learn something about music, life, religion thought impossible.

Nathan Phillis 5/21/23 Nathan Phillis 5/21/23

REVIEW: SUDS’ Double O’Bill: The Real Inspector Hound and The Bald Soprano - A murder mystery and a middle-class satire walk into a Cellar

Brilliantly adapted by directors Kieran Casey and Charlie Papps, the production offers a night of gut-wrenching laughter and meta-theatrical analysis in their double (O’) bill of two modern absurdist classics

Mae Milne 3/28/23 Mae Milne 3/28/23

Review: Euterpe EP launch at the Factory Theatre

With their shaggy hair and electric sound, the quartet seemed like a relic from the 1970s rock scene blended with 21st century anxieties.

Lameah Nayeem 3/15/23 Lameah Nayeem 3/15/23

Review: SUDS' Arcadia makes the pendulum swing

Binary opposites become whole in SUDS’ vibrant reimagining of the play, and though its discussions of thermodynamics, aesthetics, and sex may at first seem arbitrary, they have profound intention.