Lyndon Watts

Hamilton Review: Why you’ve got to be in the room where it happens (Sydney’s Lyric Theatre)

Staging an Australian production of a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical is always a daunting task, particularly when that show is one of the most acclaimed and successful musicals in Broadway history. The one benefit for local productions is knowing the audience likely have little first-hand experience with the version seen on The Great White Way….

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Theatre Review: West Side Story‘s limited run in Melbourne highlights why it is still the best of the best

Widely regarded as one of the greatest musicals of all time, the original 1957 production of West Side Story stunned audiences and changed the game for American musical theatre going forward. Since then there have been a multitude of productions focused on retelling this timeless story to new audiences. In 1961 it received a film…

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