Category: Theatre Royal

Photo by James Morgan Daniel Sparrow productions presents, RUPERT, by David Williamson, at the Theatre Royal, King St, Sydney, 28 November to 21 December, 2014. David Williamson’s RUPERT, is his 46th play (a 47th play, CRUISE CONTROL, premiered at the Ensemble Theatre this year). He has had, in fact, nine productions* of his work in Sydney, this year. A most prolific and well seen Australian playwright. Indeed. RUPERT, the play had its origins, as a commissioned work from the Melbourne Theatre Company, under an invitation of the Artistic Director, Brett Sheedy, and premiered in late August, 2013, in Melbourne, and…

Photo by Kurt Sneddon James Anthony productions and George Youakim in association with Youakim Investments presents DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, Book by Jeffrey Lane. Music and Lyrics by David Yazbeck at the Theatre Royal, King St. Sydney. DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS is the best production of a musical that I have seen in Sydney for a very long time. DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUDRELS is a kind of ‘buddy-grifter-screwball’ comedy with music. The Book by Jeffery Lane, based on the 1988 film written by Dale Lauder and Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning – starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin – is a preposterous confection…

Strange Duck productions and Liberman Partnership present FREUD’S LAST SESSION by Mark St Germain at The Theatre Royal, King St, Sydney. FREUD’S LAST SESSION is a long one act play for two characters, by Mark St Germain. Mr St Germain has developed a catalogue of plays creating historical fiction. This one concerns a fictional meeting between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis in Freud’s London study in 1939, on the evening that World War II was being declared. Mr St Germain took his inspiration from a book: “The Question of God” by Dr Armand M. Nicholi Jnr. A confirmed atheist confronting…

  Photo by Jeff Busby John Frost by special arrangement with Jed Bernstein and Adam Zotovich present, DRIVING MISS DAISY by Alfred Uhry at the Theatre Royal, Sydney. DRIVING MISS DAISY (1987), a Pulitzer Prize winning play by Alfred Uhry,  is the first part of what has become known as his ATLANTA TRILOGY. The other two works being THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO (1996) and PARADE (1998) – a musical with the score by Jason Robert Brown. These last works were winners of Tony awards. DRIVING MISS DAISY became a film directed by Bruce Beresford and the winner of four…

Dodger Theatricals, Rodney Rigby, Dainty Group, Joseph J. Grano, Tamara and Kevin Kinsella,  Pelican Group, Michael Watt in association with Latitude Link, and Rick Steiner present: JERSEY BOYS – The story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, at the Theatre Royal, Sydney. I know, I know the season is nearly finished and I know that both internationally and nationally this musical has had truly great, great press. I know that the songs, music, the group, is a part of my growing up life, along with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, and so, so redolent in my deep, deep…