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Annie, at Princess Theatre and touring - 2 hours 30 minutes, including interval
With an introductory nod to J.C. Williamson’s premiere season of Annie in Melbourne in 1978, this intoxicating, family friendly musical...
Alex First
13 minutes ago4 min read


Mother Play: a play in five evictions (MTC), at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner - 1 hour 50 minutes, with no interval
Partly drawn from the life of its Pulitzer Prize winning American writer Paula Vogel, Mother Play is theatre at its finest. Â It is a...
Alex First
6 days ago2 min read


Loving the Alien, at The Show Room, Arts Centre Melbourne - 90 minutes, with no interval
The enigma that was David Robert Jones (8th January, 1947 – 10th January, 2016), aka English singer songwriter David Bowie, is captured...
Alex First
7 days ago3 min read


1984 (Shake & Stir Theatre Company), at Comedy Theatre and touring - 1 hour 40 minutes, with no interval
While I sincerely wish it weren’t so, the power struggles the proliferate globally ensure that Shake & Stir’s brilliant adaptation of...
Alex First
Jul 23 min read


Super, at Red Stitch Actors' Theatre - 90 minutes, with no interval
I went to watch this play, like I do all others, without knowing anything other than its title. Â I never read the blurb on the website...
Alex First
Jun 303 min read


Blackrock (Lunatix), at The MC Showroom - 90 minutes, without interval
Thirty years on Nick Enright’s play about young men and youths callous disregard for the fairer sex continues to resonate.  Trash talk...
Alex First
Jun 293 min read


All is Good … in the Glow of Moonlight (inotrope productions) - 60 minutes
Evocative and entertaining, All is Good … in the Glow of Moonlight is a remarkable insight into the life and times of Soviet writer Isaac...
Alex First
Jun 282 min read


Happy-Go-Wrong (fortyfivedownstairs) - 65 minutes
Question: What does it take to really appreciate the life you have? Â Answer: Getting close to death. Â That is the conceit expertly...
Alex First
Jun 272 min read


Soldier Boy (Theatre Works) - 90 minutes, without interval
It is October 1915. Â Private James Martin (Oliver Tapp) is lying in bed on the hospital ship the Glenart Castle coughing his lungs out....
Alex First
Jun 253 min read


The Shrouds (MA) – 119 minutes
A twisted, sexually charged science fiction thriller about death, writer and director David Cronenberg keeps us – the audience – guessing...
Alex First
Jun 242 min read


Lightscape (Royal Botanic Gardens) - 90 minutes
An unquestionable highlight of winter in Melbourne is Lightscape at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Â Now in its fourth year, it is bigger and...
Alex First
Jun 233 min read


Welcome Home (Highlight Productions), at Chapel Off Chapel - 90 minutes, without interval
A delightful new play with originality stamped all over it, Welcome Home concerns two women who each believe they own the same house. Â ...
Alex First
Jun 213 min read


Hedwig And The Angry Inch (Athenaeum Theatre and touring) - 85 minutes
With a powerful rock score, the talent on display in the new Australian tour of Hedwig and the Angry Inch is phenomenal. Â With music and...
Alex First
Jun 193 min read


The Selkie Project (Liminal Theatre and Performance), at Theatre Work’s Explosives Factory - 70 minutes
First up, a confession. I am not sure I really understood The Selkie Project. Â The whole thing felt experimental and somewhat...
Alex First
Jun 182 min read


Heartbreak Hotel, at The Show Room, Arts Centre Melbourne - 75 minutes
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...
Alex First
Jun 153 min read


Circe’s Carnival of Vice (Bloomsday in Melbourne), at fortyfivedownstairs - 95 minutes
Gender bending and a hallucinatory trip are the focus of Bloomsday in Melbourne’s playful, highly original work, Circe’s Carnival of...
Alex First
Jun 142 min read


The Chronicles (Stephanie Lake Company), at Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne - 70 minutes
There is a reason that Stephanie Lake is my favourite choreographer. Â In short, she is eternally creative in the work she produces. Her...
Alex First
Jun 133 min read


The Wrong Gods (MTC and Belvoir Street Theatre), at Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne - 90 minutes, without interval
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...
Alex First
Jun 113 min read


Prison Island (Fever and Make It Now), at The District Docklands shopping centre - 90 minutes
Do you enjoy being challenged mentally and physically? Â Do you like playing games and solving puzzles? Â Are you fit, clear of mind and...
Alex First
Jun 92 min read


Fat Pig (Forest Collective and BK Opera), at fortyfivedownstairs - 100 minutes
The conceit behind the Australian premiere of the darkly comedic chamber opera Fat Pig feels all too real. Â What is it like to be...
Alex First
Jun 83 min read
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