Thanks!

PHEW! And of course there were many more shows over the course of 2025, these were just some of the images that stuck in my mind when I was thinking back. Here’s to a whole new year of more amazing productions!

(11) Bright Star at Hayes Theatre Co directed by Damien Ryan and Miranda Middleton
(12) The Edit at Belvoir St Theatre written and directed by Gabrielle Scawthorne
(13) Holiday Inn at Riverside Theatres directed by Sally Dashwood
(14) Virginia Gay in Carols by Cabaret at Hayes Theatre Co.

(7) Foam at Qtopia directed by Gavin Roach
(8) Alinta Chidzey in Strictly Baz Luhrmann at Sydney Opera House produced and directed by Mark Sutcliffe
(9) Timon of Athens (or: I Hate People) at the Seymour Centre, directed by Margaret Thanos
(10) Shack directed by Benjamin Brockman

(3) Emma Pask and her Latin Jazz Orchestra perform Cosita Divina at City Recital Hall, Sydney
(4-5) Posh at Old Fitz Theatre directed by Margaret Thanos (That first image is actually eleven photos I spent far too long combining into a single one…!)
(6) MJ Wilson in Type-A Marketing Man at Qtopia

What about all of them starring in Private Lives?

“For every like, I’ll make his pants bigger” is what this look says to me.

And a perfect way to celebrate Nicholas Meyer’s 80th birthday, too! www.instagram.com/reel/DSqDLpP...

And you too, Paul!

Merry Christmas, Jack!

(And George Michael that same week, too! Didn’t mean to leave him out, but he might not have been in the Hollywood in memoriam videos.)

I always worry about who we’re going to lose between Christmas & New Year, though—ever since we lost Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds in a two day span…

The first one WAS a soap opera! (I was in it, I remember it well…)

Interesting point…!

Bit late to tell Medea though.

(With more experience here, I realise they were either just d*cks who wanted better seats, or got drunk at interval and forgot where they’d been sitting before that.)

When I first came to Australia, I went to a general admission show at Sydney Theatre Co and when I got back from intermission, someone had taken my seat. It was not a very full venue, so I found somewhere else—but I was convinced that was local custom, that it was g/a AGAIN after interval!

All of this seems to be built on the idea that all these mayors have time to take on another half-to-full time role on top of what they’re already doing, right? That seems optimistic, at best?

What is this bizarro world of Toronto-NZ political analysis I’ve stumbled onto by accident? Nobody understands my Mike Harris ‘Days of Action’ references! (And weirdly I just found a 30-year-old Globe & Mail theatre review that references him this week, too—he’d just been elected, of course.)