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Bloody brilliant or toothless? Cynthia Erivo’s Dracula – reviews roundup

The Wicked star plays all 23 characters in a hi-tech London staging of Bram Stoker’s novel by Kip Williams. Here’s a bite-sized look at the critics’ verdicts

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Dracula review – Cynthia Erivo’s magnificent modern bloodsucker is defanged in one-woman show

Deploying accents and wigs, the Wicked star takes on all Bram Stoker’s characters, but the atmosphere lacks the fever or diabolicism required

The Guardian - UK

Dracula: Cynthia Erivo is extraordinary in this one-woman multimedia show

4/5 Kip Williams’ production at the Noël Coward Theatre is a spectacular star vehicle for Erivo which brings Bram Stoker’s tale right into the horrific present

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The Maids review – Dorian Gray’s Kip Williams dazzles again with feverish fantasy

There are superb performances in this screen-saturated staging of Jean Genet’s 1947 play, updated for the influencer age

The Guardian - UK

The Maids at Donmar Warehouse: 'If you're prepared to surrender, it's a wild ride'

4/5 This adaptation of Jean Genet’s play by Kip Williams makes use of phones to project the fantasy world of two sisters wishing to murder a terrible mistress but the true power is in the performances

Evening Standard

Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg and Caliban’s take on The Tempest: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2025

Andrea Riseborough and Sarandon deliver a decade-hopping drama, superstar standups hit the road and Shobana Jeyasingh rewrites Shakespeare

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Theatre company's box office boost from bumper season

More than half a million people saw a Sydney Theatre Company show in 2024, making for record revenues of just over $47 million.

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Sarah Snook has no 'idea' how to turn The Picture of Dorian Gray into a film

Sarah Snook has no "idea'" how to turn her stage version of The Picture of Dorian Gray into a film because the stage show is a "a particularly complex piece" of theatre.

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Sarah Snook wins best actress at Tony awards for The Picture of Dorian Gray

Australian actor performed all 26 roles in Broadway production of the Sydney Theatre Company play directed by Kip Williams

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Cynthia Erivo to play all 23 roles in one-actor West End production of Dracula

Swapping out her broomstick for fangs, the ‘Wicked’ star will work with the geniuses behind Sarah Snook’s ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’

The Independent UK

Cynthia Erivo to play Dracula and 22 supporting roles in West End transfer of Australian show

Wicked star to play Bram Stoker’s bloodsucking fiend in a production from the creators of Olivier award-winning hit The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Guardian - AU

Pamela Rabe shines in this hypnotic revival of Samuel Beckett’s classic play Happy Days

Samuel Beckett is justly regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century – and unquestionably one of the most demanding. Few of his works illustrate this more clearly than Happy Days, first performed in 1961, and currently playing at the Sydney Theatre Company.

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STC's Broadway hit Dorian Gray nominated for six Tonys

Sydney Theatre Company's 'cine-theatre' adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway is in the running for six Tony awards.

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Talented Mr Ripley and the Shiralee headline Sydney Theatre Company’s 2025 season

Picnic at Hanging Rock, Happy Days and aged care musical Bloom also on next year’s STC program, which will the last from outgoing artistic director Kip Williams

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Sydney Theatre Company’s Dracula: a virtuosic performance, sexy staging, and a queer rewriting

The figure of Dracula has always lived somewhere between the written word, screen projections and our fantasy lives. His story is tailor-made for one of Kip Williams’ hybrid adaptations.

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Dracula review – a clever and playful victory lap for Kip Williams’ gothic cine-theatre trilogy

Zahra Newman is remarkable in the director’s last production with the company

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The Picture of Dorian Gray’s Kip Williams steps down as Sydney Theatre Company artistic director

Williams, who directed the play, leaving company to prepare for its potential Broadway season following acclaimed West End run starring Sarah Snook

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The picture of Sarah Snook: First look at Succession star's Oscar Wilde stage return

Sarah Snook plays all 26 characters in her new play which opened on Tuesday night at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

The Guardian - UK

From Bong Joon-ho to Van Gogh: Observer critics’ culture highlights for 2024

From Withnail and I on stage to Olivia Rodrigo on tour, Sally Wainwright’s new drama to Blondie, Bruckner and Jez Butterworth, our experts guide you through the treats in store this year

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First Thing: Cop28 agrees landmark deal to transition away from fossil fuels

Summit president hails ‘historic package to accelerate climate action’, but critics decry ‘litany of loopholes’ in final text. Plus, why the silent treatment is so painful

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The silent treatment: ‘One woman was ostracised by her husband for 40 years’

To be frozen out by family, friends or online can feel as bad as physical pain. We speak to those on the receiving end – and those who mete it out

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Australian theatre companies are shunning Shakespeare. A much-needed break, or a mistake?

A decade ago, William Shakespeare was the most performed playwright in Australia. In 2024 not one mainstage theatre company in Australia will perform Shakespeare. The only exception will be Bell Shakespeare.

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Dear Evan Hansen and Dracula to headline Sydney Theatre Company’s 2024 program

STC will put on Tony Award-winning musical’s first original production since Broadway, an opportunity that artistic director Kip Williams describes as ‘thrilling’

The Conversation

I can't imagine anybody would come out of On The Beach and not hold their loved ones just that little bit closer

Review: On The Beach, directed by Kip Williams.

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