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Social Dance at Theatre Works' Explosives Factory - 80 minutes, without interval
Dinner is served, or at least about to be served. That is what we are led to believe in the latest, decidedly adventurous play at Theatre...
Alex First
Jun 24, 20233 min read


Cabaret Night Fever at The Butterfly Club - 50 minutes
An eclectic comedian and singer with a working-class style and a potty mouth, MJ Wilson sets us up for a show about love … and horses....
Alex First
Jun 20, 20232 min read


Lightscape at Royal Botanic Gardens
Following its success last winter, a new, gorgeous exhibition of colour and creativity returns to the Royal Botanic Gardens this year....
Alex First
Jun 19, 20233 min read


Jurassic Creatures (opposite Southland Shopping Centre)
The Jurassic Park/Jurassic World movie franchise has grossed more than $6 billion globally. Let’s face it, dinosaurs are big business and...
Alex First
Jun 18, 20232 min read


Exiles (Bloomsday) at fortyfivedownstairs - 120 minutes, plus interval
Set in Dubin in 1912, Richard Rowan (Doug Lyons) is a highly intelligent writer plagued by self-doubt. Richard married the woman he...
Alex First
Jun 18, 20233 min read


Identity (The Australian Ballet) at State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne - 2 hours, plus interval
Two new and very different works, each lasting just under an hour, constitute the opening of the 2023 ballet season in Melbourne for The...
Alex First
Jun 17, 20232 min read


Masterclass, at Malthouse Theatre - 60 minutes
Oh my. What a breakout, beguiling, absurdist, slapstick comedy Masterclass is. It is a deliberately pointed slight at male arrogance and...
Alex First
Jun 16, 20232 min read


Broadway Diva at The Butterfly Club - 50 minutes
Olivia Ruggiero is talented. No doubt about it. She is operatic and she is adept at musical theatre, but at times there is a struggle...
Alex First
Jun 15, 20232 min read


Robyn Archer: An Australian Songbook, at Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne - 120 mins plus interval
The highly entertaining two-hour show could be called the soundtrack of the glorious Robyn Archer’s life. She, accompanied by a highly...
Alex First
Jun 13, 20232 min read


Shadow Spirit (above Flinders Street Station) - 90 minutes
Shadow Spirit is an artistic showcase – a microcosm of what is impressive and meaningful about indigenous culture. It is an eye and ear...
Alex First
Jun 12, 20232 min read


The Charade (Five by Five Theatre) at The MC Showroom - 90 minutes, without interval
A dysfunctional family gathers for the first time in a decade two months after the passing of the three adult daughters’ mother. Suffice...
Alex First
Jun 11, 20233 min read


TANZ at Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne - 120 minutes, without interval
TRIGGER WARNING – FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY Ten naked women cavorting on stage in a comic book reality is the wild work of 37-year-old...
Alex First
Jun 10, 20232 min read


The Culture (Powersuit Productions), at Theatre Works’ Explosives Factory - 80 minutes
Will (Mina Asfour) and Katie (Laura Jackson) are millennial best friends who live together. Both single (Will is a member of the LGBTQIA+...
Alex First
Jun 9, 20232 min read


Death of a Salesman (Hearth Theatre) at Chapel Off Chapel - three hours plus interval
Almost three quarters of a century after it was written, the power, passion and desolation intrinsic to Arthur Miller’s Death of a...
Alex First
Jun 8, 20233 min read


Climbers (Fever103 Theatre) at fortyfivedownstairs - 125 minutes, plus a 15-minute interval
It’s all good, clean, innocent, engaging, adventurous and flirtatious fun, until it isn’t. It is 1939 and I speak of a pair of first year...
Alex First
Jun 3, 20233 min read


Moth at Theatre Works - 75 minutes
What is truth and what is fantasy? The lines are blurred in the dramatic play Moth, which speaks to teen angst and mental health....
Alex First
Jun 2, 20232 min read


Jacky (MTC) at Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne - 100 minutes, without interval
Racism, disadvantage, “the mob” and money collide in the incendiary new work from Declan Furber Gillick, five years in the making....
Alex First
May 30, 20232 min read


The World According to Dinosaurs (Frenzy Theatre Company) at La Mama Courthouse - 65 minutes
Having just sat through The World According to Dinosaurs, I am sorry to say I can’t really tell you much about the narrative, save for an...
Alex First
May 28, 20232 min read


Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show at the Athenaeum Theatre - 120 minutes, including interval
Half a century on, the Rocky Horror Show remains a delightful, bizarre and engaging romp that encourages audience participation. Opening...
Alex First
May 25, 20232 min read


I Wanna Be Yours (MTC) at Southbank Theatre, The Later - 80 minutes, without interval
Navigating the vicissitudes in a relationship can be tricky at the best of times, but cross-cultural unions more often than not face...
Alex First
May 23, 20232 min read
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