Reviews

When Andrew Lloyd Webber and Julian Fellowes team up, the results of this ultra-conservative British duo, surprisingly, rock. 

The Next Generation School of Rock: The Musical, based on the 2003 comedy starring Jack Black, was embraced wholeheartedly by the Toowoomba Choral Society and hit all the right notes with its enthusiastic audience.

Robert Moses, an unelected city planner, was for forty years the most powerful man in New York.  In that time, he built parks, tunnels, bridges and over a thousand kilometres of freeways.  He destroyed swathes of tenements – and thus their often black or other minority communities – and replaced them with ‘public housing’.  In this way, he displaced up to two hundred and fifty thousand New Yorkers and revolutionised city planning in New York and across the US. 

New York critics in 1959 acclaimed Lorraine Hansberry’s classic as the Best Play of the Year.  Only 29, she was the youngest playwright and at that time the first Afro-American to win the award.

The Importance of Being Earnest is a gorgeously written comedy, and despite being written 128 years ago, is still one of the wittiest plays being performed. Under the direction of Tim Riessen, who is having a very busy year, Roxy Lane takes us back to the late Victorian era and provides lots of laughs with this “trivial comedy for serious people”.