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With an introductory nod to J.C. Williamson’s premiere season of Annie in Melbourne in 1978, this intoxicating, family friendly musical...

Partly drawn from the life of its Pulitzer Prize winning American writer Paula Vogel, Mother Play is theatre at its finest.   It is a...

The enigma that was David Robert Jones (8th January, 1947 – 10th January, 2016), aka English singer songwriter David Bowie, is captured...

While I sincerely wish it weren’t so, the power struggles the proliferate globally ensure that Shake & Stir’s brilliant adaptation of...

I went to watch this play, like I do all others, without knowing anything other than its title.   I never read the blurb on the website...

Thirty years on Nick Enright’s play about young men and youths callous disregard for the fairer sex continues to resonate.   Trash talk...

Evocative and entertaining, All is Good … in the Glow of Moonlight is a remarkable insight into the life and times of Soviet writer Isaac...

Question: What does it take to really appreciate the life you have?   Answer: Getting close to death.   That is the conceit expertly...

It is October 1915.   Private James Martin (Oliver Tapp) is lying in bed on the hospital ship the Glenart Castle coughing his lungs out....

A twisted, sexually charged science fiction thriller about death, writer and director David Cronenberg keeps us – the audience – guessing...

An unquestionable highlight of winter in Melbourne is Lightscape at the Royal Botanic Gardens.   Now in its fourth year, it is bigger and...

A delightful new play with originality stamped all over it, Welcome Home concerns two women who each believe they own the same house.  ...

With a powerful rock score, the talent on display in the new Australian tour of Hedwig and the Angry Inch is phenomenal.   With music and...

First up, a confession. I am not sure I really understood The Selkie Project.   The whole thing felt experimental and somewhat...

Breaking up is hard to do.   So it goes, as Karin McCracken and Simon Leary put on a slick show unpacking her characters’ angst at trying...

Gender bending and a hallucinatory trip are the focus of Bloomsday in Melbourne’s playful, highly original work, Circe’s Carnival of...

There is a reason that Stephanie Lake is my favourite choreographer.   In short, she is eternally creative in the work she produces. Her...

What is the price to be paid for progress? That is the conceit at the centre of the compelling drama with comedic undertones, The Wrong...

Do you enjoy being challenged mentally and physically?   Do you like playing games and solving puzzles?   Are you fit, clear of mind and...

The conceit behind the Australian premiere of the darkly comedic chamber opera Fat Pig feels all too real.   What is it like to be...