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Le Aerial, at Arts Centre Melbourne and touring
Impressive aerial acrobatics, slick dance moves and mellifluous musicality. Â Â That is the compelling menu over 70 minutes in a show...
Alex First
Oct 52 min read


Rebecca (MTC), at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner - 1 hour 45 minutes, with no interval
Imagine falling in love with a man many years your senior whose wife passed a year earlier, then quickly marrying him and moving to his...
Alex First
Oct 53 min read


instructions and txt.work, at Trades Hall, as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival - each show runs for one hour
Vive la difference. Â Award-winning UK theatre collective SUBJECT OBJECT and Nathan Ellis, who is behind the concept and the text of two...
Alex First
Oct 32 min read


2025 Melbourne Fringe Festival
From cabaret to comedy, music to dance, theatre to the visual arts and a lot more, diversity is the key to the 2025 Melbourne Fringe...
Alex First
Oct 12 min read


Dog Man: The Musical, at Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne - 65 minutes
Welcome to the fun, funny, fanciful, colourful and action-packed world of Dog Man. Â This musical is the brainchild of Kevin Del Aguila...
Alex First
Sep 302 min read


MSO presents An Evening on Broadway, at Hamer Hall
Musical theatre magic is captured by the MSO, conducted by Jessica Gethin, with two of the finest exponents of their craft, who have made...
Alex First
Sep 272 min read


Prism (The Australian Ballet) - 1 hour 53 minutes, including interval
Creative excellence and supreme artistry are the hallmarks of three short works that constitute The Australian Ballet’s new production,...
Alex First
Sep 262 min read


Colour and Light: The Art of Sondheim (Watch This) - 90 minutes, plus interval
Emotion rings true as five supremely talented performers (including the music director) celebrate the extraordinary legacy of American...
Alex First
Sep 252 min read


Shamrock Tenors, at Hamer Hall and touring - 100 minutes, with no interval
Do the Irish know how to have good time and carry everyone in the vicinity along with them or what? Never truer words have been written....
Alex First
Sep 212 min read


Draw Two, at Theatre Works' Explosives Factory - 80 minutes, with no interval
Filled with humour and pathos, Draw Two is a richly human tale. Â It is a compelling, beautifully crafted and superbly told story about...
Alex First
Sep 213 min read


Punk Rock (Lunatix Theatre), at Meat Market Stables - 110 minutes, with no interval
Being a teenager ... trying to make your way in the world … can be challenging and scary. So it is in 2008 for this group of seven Year...
Alex First
Sep 203 min read


MJ: The Musical, at Her Majesty’s Theatre - 2 hours 50 minutes, including interval
Opening night saw Melbourne embrace the power, the passion and the perfection of one of the world’s great entertainers, Michael Jackson....
Alex First
Sep 194 min read


Job, at Red Stitch Actors' Theatre - 75 minutes
A gripping psychological thriller, Job pits a patient against a psychiatrist in a battle of wits and wills. Â Jane (Jessica Clarke), who...
Alex First
Sep 183 min read


Othello (Melbourne Shakespeare Company), at fortyfivedownstairs - 105 minutes, with no interval
For someone who unashamedly struggles with Shakespeare (I never studied the Bard at school and find his language challenging), I was...
Alex First
Sep 152 min read


Are You There? (Wild Boar Theatre), at Theatre Works’ Explosives Factory - 60 minutes
Dementia is brought into sharp focus, but not in a maudlin sort of way in Are You There? Â In fact, the storyline is darkly comedic. Â ...
Alex First
Sep 132 min read


The 39 Steps (Neil Gooding Productions and Woodward Productions), at Comedy Theatre and touring - 2 hours, including interval ★★★★★
Slick and oh so cleverly acted and staged, this enticing parody of the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock movie is riotously funny.  Patrick Barlow’s...
Alex First
Sep 123 min read


Troy, at Malthouse Theatre - 100 minutes, with no interval
With significant political, religious and cultural conflict in the world today, a reworking of a well-worn story about war seems...
Alex First
Sep 103 min read


Son of Byblos (Asamina Theatre Company), at Meat Market Stables - 1 hour 40 minutes, without interval
Written by James Elazzi, the two protagonists at the heart of Son of Byblos – Lebanese Australian cousins – are living a lie.  They are...
Alex First
Sep 84 min read


American Psycho: A Musical Thriller (See You Sunday) - 2 hours 30 minutes, including interval ★★★★½
Musicals about serial killers may be thin on the ground because the subject matter is odious, but like Sweeney Todd, American Psycho: A...
Alex First
Sep 73 min read


The Anarchy (1138-53) by Doppelgangster, at Theatre Works - 2 hours 15 minutes, without interval - rating NO STARS
I can’t think of a play I have seen that I have detested more than the 40 minutes of garbled nonsense I sat through before walking out of...
Alex First
Sep 63 min read
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