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The Passion of Pauline, at The Mission to Seafarers - 60 minutes
Now, here is a decidedly different conceit – take a real-life criminal trial and turn it into a TV gameshow.  That is precisely what New...
Alex First
Oct 20, 20243 min read


Finucane & Smith’s Global Smash Club, at Trades Hall - 75 minutes
From high octane pop and rock to soulful melodies and operatic arias, this is a rampant, raucous, defiant, unabashed and provocative...
Alex First
Oct 19, 20242 min read


Werewolf, in The Show Room, Arts Centre Melbourne - 1 hour 45 minutes, with no interval
A political firestorm is brewing as the Far Right and the Far Left clash in the incendiary new work from writer Van Badham and director...
Alex First
Oct 18, 20243 min read


Eucalyptus The Opera (Victorian Opera and Opera Australia), at Palais Theatre - 2 hours 20 minutes
A series of discordant notes marks the opening of a new and enticing Australian operatic production based on Murray Ball’s 1998 novel...
Alex First
Oct 17, 20243 min read


Bisexual Intellectuals, at Trades Hall - 60 minutes
They swing both ways – that is, they fancy both men and women – and are justifiably proud of that, as they should be.  In fact, this...
Alex First
Oct 14, 20242 min read


Come From Away (CLOC Musical Theatre), at National Theatre - 100 minutes, with no interval
What an outstanding show! Â CLOC has excelled in staging the superb musical Come From Away. Â This is the first Victorian...
Alex First
Oct 13, 20243 min read


GODZ (Head First Acrobats), at Circus Oz Hub - 75 minutes
A gift from the gods? Hardly. Â Rather, an adults only, camp hoot, involving athleticism, strength and stamina. Â That is what you get...
Alex First
Oct 11, 20242 min read


Escalate, at Circus Oz Hub - 60 minutes
Accompanied by live guitar and electronica, which drive the rhythm of their performance, three accomplished Melburnians are pushing the...
Alex First
Oct 11, 20242 min read


I hope this means something, at Chapel Off Chapel - 70 minutes
To what lengths will one go to address the global climate crisis? Â That is the question at the heart of a dramatic and compelling story....
Alex First
Oct 9, 20242 min read


GRRRL Power, at Trades Hall – 60 minutes
Since time immemorial, men have held the power imbalance in the music industry and even though that situation has improved, it remains...
Alex First
Oct 7, 20242 min read


Etudes/Circle Electric (The Australian Ballet), at Regent Theatre - 2 hours 10 minutes, including interval
The combination of the new and the old is intoxicating in The Australian Ballet’s double bill Etudes/Circle Electric.  Up first is...
Alex First
Oct 6, 20242 min read


Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence (Crash Theatre Company), at Trades Hall - 60 minutes
Ambition at what cost? Just how far is one willing to go to achieve one’s goal?  Those are the questions posed in the anarchic reworking...
Alex First
Oct 5, 20242 min read


Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, at Princess Theatre - 2 hours 45 minutes, including a 20-minute interval
Ruva Ngwenya is simply the best in the dynamic musical tribute to the late, great Tina Turner, Tina. Â What Tina experienced in her...
Alex First
Oct 4, 20243 min read


Seussical (OCPAC), at Carey Grammar - 110 minutes, plus a 20-minute interval
Based on the whimsical work of Theodor Seuss Geisel (2nd March 1904 – 24th September 1991), known as Dr Seuss, Old Carey Performing Arts...
Alex First
Oct 2, 20243 min read


Pride & Prejudice – An Adaptation in Words and Music, at Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne - 85 minutes, without interval
A delightful combination of words and music.   Such is the heartwarming representation of Jane Austen’s romantic novel in a decidedly...
Alex First
Sep 29, 20242 min read


Bad Boy (fortyfivedownstairs) - 60 minutes
Tough, gritty and uncompromising. That is the incendiary combination that marks the work of co-creators Patricia Cornelius (also writer),...
Alex First
Sep 29, 20242 min read


Why Can't Women Be Like Men? at Chapel Off Chapel - 60 minutes
Written by a counselling psychologist and creative writer, Why Can’t Women Be Like Men? draws upon Grazia Marin’s many years of clinical...
Alex First
Sep 26, 20243 min read


Bite Club: 2nd Serve, at Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne - 2 hours, including a 20-minute interval
Blend drag, burlesque, circus, irreverence and the sensational sound of songstress Sahara Beck and you have the ingredients for a top...
Alex First
Sep 26, 20242 min read


Dredge (Femmural) , at Theatre Works - 50 minutes
What you read into and see in dance is very much about interpretation. Â Here is a piece where the mood is constantly shifting. What...
Alex First
Sep 21, 20242 min read


La Bohème (Melbourne Opera) - 2 hours 10 minutes, including interval
If you are after something that is mighty special, you shouldn’t go past Melbourne Opera’s stunning rendition of La Bohème. It is simply...
Alex First
Sep 21, 20242 min read
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