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![Theatre review: Wicked fun and frivolity fit for family](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Theatre review: Wicked fun and frivolity fit for family
The iconic American fairytale with its catalogue of strange symbols and puzzling metaphors proves to be fertile ground for a musical extravaganza.
![Theatre review: Gwen in Purgatory, Tapac](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Theatre review: Gwen in Purgatory, Tapac
This 2010 Australian comedy-drama continues the year's mini-trend of realist, real-time shows, writes Janet McAllister.
![Theatre review: Kiss the Fish, Q Theatre](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Theatre review: Kiss the Fish, Q Theatre
The magic of Indian Ink returns after a period of international touring with a new work that has the shrewdness of fable combined with the sweetness of a pop song.
![Theatre preview: Gwen in Purgatory, Tapac](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Theatre preview: Gwen in Purgatory, Tapac
Katherine McRae finally gets to work with her mother Elizabeth on stage - and it's in a role well suited to both.
![Theatre review: Lord of the Flies](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Theatre review: Lord of the Flies
William Golding's 1954 masterpiece is lodged within the psyche of generations who encountered it as a favoured school text.
![Australia: My memorable date with great ape](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Australia: My memorable date with great ape
Meeting great apes is a dream realised, writes Colin Mathura-Jeffree.
![Class warfare - in the kitchen](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Class warfare - in the kitchen
With its Swedish mix of sex, class and mind games, August Strindberg's naturalist (almost real-time) drama Miss Julie has sticking power.
![Andrew Lloyd Webber hospitalised](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Andrew Lloyd Webber hospitalised
British theatre mogul Andrew Lloyd Webber has been hospitalised in the UK, where he received his "12th general anaesthetic in 8 months".
![Theatre review: Motel](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Theatre review: Motel
Playwright April Phillips has created a finely crafted script that serves up four vignettes.
![Theatre review: Sydney Bridge Upside Down](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Theatre review: Sydney Bridge Upside Down
Taki Rua presents a boldly experimental piece of theatre that is as intriguing and idiosyncratic as the title.
![Stage debut for dark tale of youth](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Stage debut for dark tale of youth
Writer Stephen Ballantyne admits he didn't pay much attention when his late father David Ballantyne's novel Sydney Bridge Upside Down was published in 1968.
![Convicted killer lends son a hand](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Convicted killer lends son a hand
Convicted double murderer David Wayne Tamihere has been lending a hand in a local production of hit Broadway musical Chicago.
![Theatre review: Like There's No Tomorrow](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Theatre review: Like There's No Tomorrow
The interactive theatre experience is given a thorough workout in a wildly energetic production that drops us right into the throbbing heart of an illicit high school after-ball.
![Tu latest to show war's impact on Maori life](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Tu latest to show war's impact on Maori life
Participation in 20th century international conflicts is a recurring topic in Maori theatre.
![Paul Simei-Barton: Climatic wit in science farce](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Paul Simei-Barton: Climatic wit in science farce
British playwright Richard Bean brings razor-sharp wit and an amusing sense of the absurd to this high-spirited romp through the fractious terrain of climate change science.
![Hairy, Jelly and Pippi](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Hairy, Jelly and Pippi
Forget about Australians appropriating our cultural icons; the Scots are getting in on the act.
![Theatre review: Clowning classic feels a little tired](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Theatre review: Clowning classic feels a little tired
I first saw this clowning classic several years ago, and remembered it fondly enough to want to take the resident 8-year-old this time around.