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Mythos: Ragnarok, at Festival Park, The Bunker - 75 minutes
How unexpectedly and thrillingly different – a bold and unique theatrical offering from the UK, which makes its international debut at...
Alex First
Oct 15, 20232 min read


Matador, sabor de amor (a taste of love), at Festival Park, The Vault
Sensual and alluring, Matador combines scantily clad performers with pulsating English and Spanish beats, and acrobatic acts in a...
Alex First
Oct 14, 20231 min read


Le Freak, at the ETU Ballroom at Trades Hall, part of Melbourne Fringe Festival
Think outrageous, absurd and hilarious and you have the starting point for Le Freak. It is show that sets out to shock and delight, and...
Alex First
Oct 14, 20232 min read


Songs for a New World (Soundworks Productions), at Chapel Off Chapel - 90 minutes, plus interval
Hardly a conventional musical, The Tony Award-winning Songs for a New World* is thematic. It doesn’t follow a linear narrative. Dating...
Alex First
Oct 10, 20232 min read


Elvis: A Musical Revolution (Athenaeum Theatre) - 140 minutes, including a 20-minute interval
Elvis lives. I dare say many the world over would hope that isn’t just a throwaway line, rather a reality. The truth is the legend of...
Alex First
Oct 10, 20233 min read


Chess: The Musical (CLOC), The National Theatre, - 180 minutes, including a 20-minute interval
Subterfuge and skullduggery abound, with the Russians and the Allies at loggerheads during the Cold War in Chess: The Musical. The...
Alex First
Oct 10, 20232 min read


Roaring (Burwood Student Theatre Company), at Chapel Off Chapel - 75 minutes
Sex, crime and bad behaviour characterise the ’60s dark period drama romance Roaring, the debut work for writer and director Staz Barres....
Alex First
Oct 7, 20232 min read


Mamma Mia! The Musical, at Princess Theatre - 150 minutes, including a 20-minute interval
Featuring 22 tracks from ABBA, Mamma Mia! The Musical is bright, breezy, energetic and heaps of good-natured fun. Whenever it returns, it...
Alex First
Oct 7, 20233 min read


Songs from the Book of Life, at Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne - 80 minutes, without interval
Just why Deborah Conway and her husband Willy Zygier are cherished as Australian music royalty is evident when you see Songs from the...
Alex First
Oct 6, 20232 min read


Biographica, at Theatre Works (85 minutes, without interval)
What a superbly enriching experience Lyric Opera’s Biographic is. It is powerful and affecting. It is centred on the life of Gerolamo...
Alex First
Oct 2, 20232 min read


Rhythm of the Sole and A Tap Dance Experience, at Chapel Off Chapel (2 x 60 minutes)
Rhythm in abundance. The setting was Chapel Off Chapel on the last day in September. It was brought to life with a joyful celebration of...
Alex First
Oct 2, 20232 min read


My Sister Jill (MTC), at Southbank Theatre - 100 minutes, without interval
Their father was big and strong. He could be fun, but more often than not he was scary, angry, brutal and dogmatic. He couldn’t land a...
Alex First
Sep 29, 20233 min read


Justin's BIG Balloon Show, at Athenaeum Theatre and Sydney Fringe - 60 minutes
Justin Williams makes the impossible possible with a big smile on his face. He is an illusionist and balloon artist who recently won the...
Alex First
Sep 22, 20232 min read


Swan Lake (The Australian Ballet), at Arts Centre Melbourne and touring
Stunning. That word best sums up The Australian Ballet’s reinvention of Anne Woolliams’ acclaimed 1977 production of the world’s most...
Alex First
Sep 20, 20232 min read


Circa's Carnival of the Animals, at Arts Centre Melbourne - 50 minutes
How clever and creative. Circa’s Carnival of the Animals is an engaging, endearing, comedic and delightful family show – circus with a...
Alex First
Sep 17, 20232 min read


Turn, Turn, Turn, at Theatre Works’ Explosives Factory - 75 minutes
It is the future and Earth Seven is becoming uninhabitable. Too many people, too few resources. It is time to get out, but the...
Alex First
Sep 15, 20232 min read


Love Lust Lost (Broad Encounters), at The Austral - 90 minutes
Immersive and interactive theatre excites me. It always has. We don’t see enough of it in Australia. That is why I entered The Austral in...
Alex First
Sep 15, 20233 min read


SLUTNIK 2: Planet of Incels, at Theatre Works - 100 minutes, without interval
SLUTNIK 2: Planet of Incels has cult classic written all over it. Think lashings of The Rocky Horror Show liberally mixed with Magic Mike...
Alex First
Sep 14, 20232 min read


Myra in Space (Baggage Productions) at fortyfivedownstairs - 90 minutes, without interval
Myra in Space is a dramatic comedy from an independent theatre company dedicated to producing original scripts written by women. It...
Alex First
Sep 11, 20233 min read


A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Watch This) at Chapel Off Chapel - 120 minutes
Hijinks abound in the witty, irreverent, farcical hit musical Hijinks abound in the witty, irreverent, farcical hit musical A Funny Thing...
Alex First
Sep 11, 20232 min read
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