Forcing audiences into casinos to see theatre is just what Sydney doesn’t need
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Forcing audiences into casinos to see theatre is just what Sydney doesn’t need

Sydney has a desperate lack of commercial theatre space. Putting new ones in casinos is not the answer.

  • byNathanael Cooper

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After more than 100 cancelled performances,Hamilton returns to the stage

After more than 100 cancelled performances,Hamilton returns to the stage

Performances of the blockbuster musical will restart at 75 per cent capacity and with an audience that must be fully vaccinated and wearing masks.

  • byLouise Rugendyke
Sydney companies in limbo as no date yet for return to the theatre

Sydney companies in limbo as no date yet for return to the theatre

Companies are paying tens of thousands of dollars each week in wages while they await government advice over an extended lockdown.

  • byLouise Rugendyke
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new musical film is no Hamilton,and lacks drama
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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new musical film is no Hamilton,and lacks drama

In the Heights has a big problem:there’s not much drama,comedy or even story in its two and a half hours.

  • byJake Wilson
The mega-musical Hamilton does a great disservice to its hero’s mother

The mega-musical Hamilton does a great disservice to its hero’s mother

Dismissed as a whore,Alexander Hamilton’s mother is clearly the parent from whom he inherited his brains,drive and energy.

  • bySarah Napthali
Hamilton is coming. Here’s how to give it your best shot
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Opinion

Hamilton is coming. Here’s how to give it your best shot

This is what you need to do to be prepared to see the smash Broadway musical when it comes to town.

  • byJenna Price
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Blockbuster musical Hamilton to head to Melbourne after a year in Sydney

Blockbuster musical Hamilton to head to Melbourne after a year in Sydney

The Australian cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s genre-bending hip hop tale of the American Revolution will call Her Majesty’s Theatre home from as early as March.

  • byLinda Morris
Chaleyer on the rocks
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Chaleyer on the rocks

And choko in the can.

Hamilton is both high art and thrillingly entertaining
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Hamilton is both high art and thrillingly entertaining

How better to depict the American Revolution than with a hip hop musical theatre revolution?

  • byJohn Shand
Lights,cameras and action:The harbour city is back after a year of restrictions

Lights,cameras and action:The harbour city is back after a year of restrictions

A year after Australia was forced into strict lockdowns due to fight COVID-19,the harbour city has finally returned to a sense of normality as restrictions ease and events return - with a vengeance.

  • byLucy Manly
How to give it everything,eight shows a week:Hamilton cast on the year’s biggest show

How to give it everything,eight shows a week:Hamilton cast on the year’s biggest show

Four stars of the blockbuster musical reveal what it’s like in the eye of the Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hurricane.

  • byLouise Rugendyke