I TELL YOU WHAT I THINK
First on Entertainment

More than ever, in 2023 the theme has an ick factor. It made my skin crawl. Today, cyberbullying is unfortunately rife, with physical...

Forty years on, the winner of 11 Tony Awards remains so much rambunctious fun. This all-new Australian production stars five-time...

There is something wicked and subversive about storybook villains rising and trying to rewrite their fate. That’s the premise of the...

Five young women at the pearly gates, or are they at the gates of hell? Taken far too young, they are called upon – one by one – to...

Daniel Defoe (born Daniel Foe) may well have been the first English novelist. At least that is the contention in the play Defoe’s Plague,...

Adapted from Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography, first published in October 1928, Orlando: A New Musical charts the path of the...

Cameron Mackintosh’s spectacular new production of Miss Saigon* has stormed onto the Her Majesty’s Theatre stage, captivating an...

Imagine if Shakespeare wrote the cult favourite movie Ghostbusters. Same inherent storyline – fighting poltergeists in New York City –...

Women treated shamefully by the Aussie Rules’ boys’ club. That is the theme of Patricia Cornelius’ gritty, feminist play In the Club. It...

Inspired by the 2009 Dutch horror film The Human Centipede, Synergy Production Co. has given us a musical parody featuring the same...

A Dodgeball Named Desire is a clever, creative and involving hoot, contrasting the literary with the sporting. It is a decidedly fresh...

Eighteen dynamos of dance and drums dazzle and delight at Arts Centre Melbourne. They are truly mesmerising in an energetic display of...

The turbulent life of jazz singer Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan) is on show in an intimate club setting in Lady Day at Emerson’s...

Talk about playing mind games with words. Seventeen years after MTC staged this Tony Award winning musical comedy, Saltpillar Theatre has...

A moving depiction of the early days of colonialism and its impacts on the First Peoples, The Visitors is set on a day the mercury...

As you enter The Showroom Theatre, there is a faux fox that looks dead lying in the middle of the stage, which has been dressed to look...

What an uplifting experience Hour of the Wolf is. It is 65 minutes of intriguing, immersive theatre that sees 12 characters interacting...

Identity and family are the key ingredients in the incendiary world premiere comedic drama Flake, written by Dan Lee and co-created by...

A gravely dysfunctional family is dealing with the matriarch suffering from dementia in the drama Broken River. When she is lucid, Linda...

The relationship between a mother and son is heartfelt, but it can also be fractious. Think of the original ABC TV comedy series of that...