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Grease The Musical, at Her Majesty's Theatre - 2 hours, including a 20-minute interval
Senior high in the US in the late 1950s is re-energised in the colourful new production of Grease The Musical at Her Majesty’s Theatre....
Alex First
Jan 10, 20242 min read


Circus of Illusion (touring) - 1 hour 50 minutes, including a 20-minute interval
The magic is top shelf. So too the – at times frightening – rola bola routine (that is where an artist balances precariously on objects...
Alex First
Jan 7, 20242 min read


Catch Me If You Can: The Musical (PLOS Musical Productions), at Frankston Arts Centre - 2 hours 30 minutes, including a 20-minute interval
Frank Abignale Junior was a con man par excellence. In short, he rewrote the rule book on how to impersonate and swindle. Born on 27th...
Alex First
Jan 7, 20242 min read


The Choir of Man, at Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne - 90 minutes, without interval
If you want to see a show full of feel good, life affirming entertainment, you should look no further than The Choir of Man. Straight...
Alex First
Jan 6, 20242 min read


Circus 1903, at State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne - 2 hours 10 minutes, including a 20-minute interval
Some of the most extraordinary and outrageous feats performed on stage. Add next level, utterly hilarious, child participation and you...
Alex First
Jan 5, 20243 min read


Claire Come Home (Theatre Works) - 65 minutes
Some pieces of writing are straight forward. Others are open to interpretation. Claire Come Home is the latter. Written by Amelia Newman,...
Alex First
Jan 3, 20242 min read


John Foreman’s Aussie Pops Orchestra New Year’s Eve & The Night Before Gala Concerts, at Hamer Hall – 2 hours 30 minutes, including a 20-minute interval
Goosebumps! That is what I had while watching and listening to three of Australia’s preeminent musical theatre performers on stage with...
Alex First
Jan 1, 20243 min read


The Hunchback of Notre Dame (OSMaD), at Scotch College - 2 hours 50 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
Based on Victor Hugo’s acclaimed 1831 novel and songs from the 1996 Disney film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a dramatic tale of...
Alex First
Dec 28, 20233 min read


A Very Naughty Christmas (Woodward Productions), at Alex Theatre - 80 minutes, without interval
Magic Mike or Santa? Honestly, there are times you can’t tell the difference in this sexually promiscuous, irreverent Christmas revue...
Alex First
Dec 13, 20232 min read


Monopoly Dreams, at Melbourne Central
Monopoly, the world’s most popular board game, was patented on 31st December, 1935. While it has since morphed into hundreds of localised...
Alex First
Dec 6, 20232 min read


The Convent, at Temperance Hall in South Melbourne - 60 minutes
Sex sells. I know it. You know it. And so does the man behind The Convent, director/producer/co-choreographer/co-lighting...
Alex First
Dec 6, 20232 min read


Kinky Boots (James Terry Collective), at Chapel Off Chapel - 120 minutes, plus a 20-minute interval
Acceptance is the theme of the musical Kinky Boots, which is based on the 2005 film of the same name. Charlie Price is a young man...
Alex First
Dec 3, 20233 min read


Red, at The MC Showroom - 90 minutes, without interval
What is art? That is one of the questions at the heart of Red. Another concerns pretension. American writer John Logan wrote Red about...
Alex First
Dec 1, 20232 min read


Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (Little Ones Theatre) - 70 minutes
The first known reference to vampires appeared in written form in Old Russian in AD 1047, soon after Orthodox Christianity moved into...
Alex First
Dec 1, 20232 min read


Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Red Stitch Theatre - 180 minutes, including two intervals
One of the most lauded plays of the 20th century, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a high stakes cat and mouse game. Husband and wife...
Alex First
Nov 27, 20233 min read


Whose Gonna Love ‘Em? I am that i AM (A Daylight Connection*), at Malthouse Theatre - 55 minutes
Evocative, eviscerating, engaging – these are the hallmarks of a group therapy session in which participants are figuratively filleted....
Alex First
Nov 26, 20232 min read


Chase (A Daylight Collection*) at Malthouse Theatre - 75 minutes
Imagine if the world had all but come to an end and you were the last person left on Earth. Global warming has sparked a hellfire and...
Alex First
Nov 26, 20232 min read


Christmas Under the Big Top, at Burnley Oval in Richmond - 2 hours 30 minutes
Santa and Mrs Claus are back in town preparing for their big day and there is plenty of fun to be had. There is a welter of activities...
Alex First
Nov 25, 20232 min read


The Old Vic's A Christmas Carol, at Comedy Theatre - 120 minutes, including a 20-minute interval
What a magical, beautifully constructed and executed show The Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol is. Conceived and directed by Matthew Warchus,...
Alex First
Nov 24, 20233 min read


A Very Jewish Christmas Carol (MTC) - Southbank Theatre, The Sumner - 100 minutes
Charles Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge has never seen the likes of it. Take the classic tale A Christmas Carol and put a Jewish twist on it....
Alex First
Nov 19, 20233 min read
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