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Disney on Ice: Find Your Hero, at Rod Laver Arena
Disney favourites Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy introduce several of Disney’s heroes … and a few villains in the...
Alex First
Jul 182 min read


Out of Gas on Lovers Leap, at Meat Market Stables - 90 minutes
Mia Barrett and Will Lonsdale bring energy and flair to their potent portrayal of troubled students with a questionable future. Â It is...
Alex First
Jul 183 min read


Here You Come Again, at Comedy Theatre and touring - 2 hours
The legendary, wholesome Dolly Parton with a mischievous streak is on show in the part musical, part play, part concert Here You Come...
Alex First
Jul 173 min read


Echo: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen, at Malthouse Theatre - 90 minutes, without interval
Take a real-life story and drop into it an actor, entertainment personality or media figure and ask them to play along without any...
Alex First
Jul 163 min read


Legally Blonde, The Musical (theatrical), at The National Theatre - 2 hours 30 minutes, including interval
Elle Woods’ superpower in Legally Blonde is staying true to herself.  And so it is that the star of the show wins us over amidst much...
Alex First
Jul 143 min read


Waterloo, at Theatre Works - 60 minutes
I am a firm believer that everyone has a story to tell if you dig deep enough. Â Of course, some are arguably more compelling than...
Alex First
Jul 132 min read


Smokescreen, at fortyfivedownstairs - 80 minutes, with no interval
The complexities of marketing and manipulation at its finest are on show in a fictional horror show that has real world implications. Â ...
Alex First
Jul 123 min read


Annie, at Princess Theatre and touring - 2 hours 30 minutes, including interval
With an introductory nod to J.C. Williamson’s premiere season of Annie in Melbourne in 1978, this intoxicating, family friendly musical...
Alex First
Jul 114 min read


Mother Play: a play in five evictions (MTC), at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner - 1 hour 50 minutes, with no interval
Partly drawn from the life of its Pulitzer Prize winning American writer Paula Vogel, Mother Play is theatre at its finest. Â It is a...
Alex First
Jul 52 min read


Loving the Alien, at The Show Room, Arts Centre Melbourne - 90 minutes, with no interval
The enigma that was David Robert Jones (8th January, 1947 – 10th January, 2016), aka English singer songwriter David Bowie, is captured...
Alex First
Jul 43 min read


1984 (Shake & Stir Theatre Company), at Comedy Theatre and touring - 1 hour 40 minutes, with no interval
While I sincerely wish it weren’t so, the power struggles the proliferate globally ensure that Shake & Stir’s brilliant adaptation of...
Alex First
Jul 23 min read


Super, at Red Stitch Actors' Theatre - 90 minutes, with no interval
I went to watch this play, like I do all others, without knowing anything other than its title. Â I never read the blurb on the website...
Alex First
Jun 303 min read


Blackrock (Lunatix), at The MC Showroom - 90 minutes, without interval
Thirty years on Nick Enright’s play about young men and youths callous disregard for the fairer sex continues to resonate.  Trash talk...
Alex First
Jun 293 min read


All is Good … in the Glow of Moonlight (inotrope productions) - 60 minutes
Evocative and entertaining, All is Good … in the Glow of Moonlight is a remarkable insight into the life and times of Soviet writer Isaac...
Alex First
Jun 282 min read


Happy-Go-Wrong (fortyfivedownstairs) - 65 minutes
Question: What does it take to really appreciate the life you have? Â Answer: Getting close to death. Â That is the conceit expertly...
Alex First
Jun 272 min read


Soldier Boy (Theatre Works) - 90 minutes, without interval
It is October 1915. Â Private James Martin (Oliver Tapp) is lying in bed on the hospital ship the Glenart Castle coughing his lungs out....
Alex First
Jun 253 min read


The Shrouds (MA) – 119 minutes
A twisted, sexually charged science fiction thriller about death, writer and director David Cronenberg keeps us – the audience – guessing...
Alex First
Jun 242 min read


Lightscape (Royal Botanic Gardens) - 90 minutes
An unquestionable highlight of winter in Melbourne is Lightscape at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Â Now in its fourth year, it is bigger and...
Alex First
Jun 233 min read


Welcome Home (Highlight Productions), at Chapel Off Chapel - 90 minutes, without interval
A delightful new play with originality stamped all over it, Welcome Home concerns two women who each believe they own the same house. Â ...
Alex First
Jun 213 min read


Hedwig And The Angry Inch (Athenaeum Theatre and touring) - 85 minutes
With a powerful rock score, the talent on display in the new Australian tour of Hedwig and the Angry Inch is phenomenal. Â With music and...
Alex First
Jun 193 min read
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