Category: Perth
Review: Perth Raises Its Voice For The Joyful Sister Act
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On Wednesday night, Perth’s Crown Theatre said its prayers and renounced its hedonist ways for the opening night of Sister Act the Musical. While Whoopi Goldberg made the singing nun iconic in the 1992 film, the stage version features all-new original music and a fresh take on the story. This…
Review: Freaky Friday Finds The Funny In Family Life
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You, like me, may be surprised to learn that the 2003 Disney Channel film starring Jamie-Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan is, in fact, not the original iteration of Freaky Friday. Upon reading the program for WAAPA’s production of the musical by the third year Music Theatre students, I discovered that there…
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Review: WAAPA Brings Austen To Life With Wit And Warmth
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Written by Laura Wade and performed by the third year Acting students from WAAPA, The Watsons is a quirky adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel of the same name. We are introduced to Emma Watson, daughter of the Watson house, eagerly awaiting a suitor. But what starts as a sophisticated family drama soon…
Film Review: Paddington in Peru at Moonlight Cinema Perth
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Normally, when I see a weather forecast of 36°C I have my complaints ready to go. But with tickets to Moonlight Cinema to look forward to on Sunday, I held them in. The warm evening air after a sticky day was the perfect environment to trot over to Kings Park…
Review: Lord of the Rings A Musical Tale Perth
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The 80+ year legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels still persist, evidenced by The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale, bringing the epic fantasy to the Crown Theatre in Perth. Frodo Baggins, an orphan hobbit from the tranquil paradise of The Shire, is bequeathed the One Ring, an object imbued…
Review: August Osage County A Once in a Lifetime Night at the Theatre
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It’s not every day a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama makes its way out west to Perth stages – and when there’s a chance to see some of the country’s most talented performers tackle a modern classic like August: Osage County, it would be mad to miss it. This Belvoir / Black…
Review: Night Night Bursts with Energy and Whimsy
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Last night, a full house packed into Perth’s State Theatre Studio Underground for the world premiere of The Last Great Hunt’s Night Night as part of Perth Festival. The Last Great Hunt is known for making highly innovative theatre that blends dramatic acting with puppetry, animation, and mind-boggling technology. Night Night is no different.…
Review: Jesus Christ Superstar Thrills with Raw Energy and Passion
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Jesus Christ Superstar is the second mainstream collaboration between venerated musical theatre masterminds Sirs Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Born of the 1970s, an era when rock music was finding its way out of small clubs and pubs and starting to fill arenas with bombastic, hair-raising glamour, the production tells…
Review: LASSÙ Big Top Fun at Fringe World Perth
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The world premiere of LASSÙ is the debut production from seventh-generation circus performer Merrik Ashton. Combining modern and traditional circus acts with cabaret, dance, and burlesque, LASSÙ serves as a very entertaining evening for Perth theatregoers this Fringe season. LASSÙ is performed in a bespoke big top/ spiegeltent in Victoria Park, with the…
