Best of Broadway hits town with Next to Normal - Daily Telegraph
26 May 2012, 11:45 am
As Insider can reveal, Parke has put together a strong cast of six led by Michelle Doake, who won a Sydney Theatre Award for her performance in Australian musical The hatpin, Ian Stenlake (Sea Patrol, Guys And Dolls) and Bobby Fox (Jersey Boys).

Suck it up, buddy. She just didn't like it - The Australian
21 May 2012, 6:54 pm
My first work as book-writer and lyricist, The hatpin, has now had six seasons throughout the world. In terms of developing a new Australian work, the fact that it had one is a rare miracle. I don’t think it is good. Some people do. I also don’t think ...

Absinthe for elevenses, anyone? - Financial Times
19 May 2012, 12:48 am
I wish I knew. I am not talking about reward schemes here. Buying yourself a new hatpin because you feel you have been blameless for the longest time isn’t it at all. What concerns me here is doing what isn’t expected of us, going against the grain of ...

hatpin a ‘dark masterpiece’ - Armidale Express
15 May 2012, 1:03 pm
The Armidale Drama and Musical Society (ADMS) have produced a dark masterpiece in their production of Australian musical The hatpin. The musical tells the harrowing true tale of the 19th century Makin family, who took in babies whose mothers couldn’t ...

Eroding women's right to succeed - The Age
7 May 2012, 4:30 am
Good grooming, appropriate and current attire ought be enough. Until women stop whipping out the hatpin to jab any other (high-achieving) women's attire/body shape, we will be titillated with catty distractions about anything but the policy, achievements ...