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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...

Naked women, guns, pop and classical music, dancers, roller skating, shadow boxing, athleticism, a shrine and Russian ballet dancer...

Have you ever thought about playing mini golf with a tail? No, I am not off with the pixies.   Swingers: The Art of Mini Golf, a...

POV (Point of View) is an extraordinary undertaking, unlike anything I have seen.   A 14-year-old – played by alternates on different...

Life’s struggle from childhood is captured in captivating form in Botis Seva’s Olivier Award-winning dance theatre production BLKDOG.  ...

If you think a musical about Greek gods is too much of a literary stretch and hardly relatable to the modern world, think again.   The...

A portent of doom hangs over Melbourne Opera’s production of Samson & Delilah.   It is largely dark and foreboding (lighting design is by...

My approach to reviewing is to enter a theatre, cinema or gallery knowing nothing about what I am about to see and hear.   That means not...

Who has the right to tell you how and when to give birth?   Of course, it is a deeply personal issue, but one that, over generations, has...

From the highly creative mind of Wes Anderson comes the story of a ruthless businessman and his estranged daughter.   It is 1950. Anatole...

Max Gillies is a living treasure who brings frustration, despair and humour to three fine pieces involving men at the tail end of their...