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Not being able to conceive when one is desperate to start a family can cause major rifts in a marriage. Infertility affects about one in six Australian coupl...

What a grand show and a great experience Kurios is. Artistic excellence, ingenuity and reinvention are the keys to the ongoing success of the world’s preemin...

Promiscuity to hide the pain. That – in a nutshell – is the short life and times of Lolita, as evocatively captured by Patricia Cornelius in Slut. Photos by ...

A darkly comedic, sick and twisted story concerning an extreme job interview to find a perfect hit man or woman, you are highly unlikely to forget this one i...

A slow moving, wordy piece about loneliness, fragility and connection, I can’t say The Curtain lit up my life. Photos by Theresa Harrison Set in a small coun...

Billy Elliot The Musical remains as moving and evocative as when I first saw it in Melbourne more than a decade ago … and what a magnificent show it is. For ...

The creator of and actors in Italian American Reconciliation, which premiered off Broadway in 1988, seem to have forgotten the adage “less is more”. Photos b...

The Great Australian Play is a thoroughly bewildering take on Australian history – specifically one of this country’s most alluring legends – and contemporar...

Fun, funny, light hearted, colourful and energetic, Shrek The Musical surprised me with its warmth, relatability and good natured banter. Photos by Brian Gea...

Two gifted and extremely funny actors create an even bigger farce out of an already brilliant Victorian farce in an hilarious adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The...

Compulsive hoarding (from which an estimated 1.2 million Australians suffer) is a major mental health issue. It is also ripe for comedic treatment and it sur...

Take the story of a God-fearing father, a loving husband and son and blend it with a penchant for same sex encounters, prostitution and drug taking and you h...

Think back to all that was good about the 1950s (consider the fashion, architecture and styling … and if you can’t because you have either forgotten or weren...

What to make of this zany, satirical ride? I was pondering that through much of The Feather in the Web, which makes its Victorian debut. I was shocked, chall...

A hybrid musical with dance and calisthenics, Amazing Grace: New York, New York has many moments of exhilaration and others that don’t work quite as well. Ph...

Energetic, colourful and captivating, this is up there with the very best productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS and I have had the good fortune to see se...

An epic and intense tale of bravery in the lead up to and during the First World War, War Horse focuses on the trials and tribulations of a chestnut animal n...

A cleverly conceived and executed piece that purports to be one thing and turns out to be something else entirely, I am loathe to go into detail about the na...

It’s party time as some of the greatest artists from the ‘50s to today take to the stage ... again. Well, not really ... but as reimagined in tribute form. A...

With the 50th anniversary of the moon landing in our very recent past, why not stage a space themed circus? Why not, indeed? And the producers of the hit show...