Latest Reviews
DragSpeare: Drag Kings Do Shakespeare
By Sarah Skubala Melt is an annual citywide festival celebrating queer arts and culture staged at 70 venues throughout Brisbane in October and November. DragSpeare: Drag Kings Do Shakespeare is one of the dazzling shows on offer, presented by PIP Theatre in...
Rhinoceros
By Heather Bosted Delightfully weird and then troubling real, Spinning Plates Co smash the theatre of the absurd out of the park in this timely resurrected and adapted classic. Eugene Ionesco’s original play is about a small provincial French town overrun when ifs...
Love Lies Bleeding
By Sarah Skubala Love Lies Bleeding, Ad Astra’s final offering for 2024, is a play about assisted death from the pen of Don DeLillo, an American novelist made famous by books such as White Noise, winner of the National Book Award and now a Netflix film directed by...
SIX The Musical
Review by Tim Garratt Four years ago, SIX The Musical had its Sydney premiere. The show is the brainchild of Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, two Cambridge University graduates who wrote the book, music and lyrics in 2017 while studying, and staged its first...
Type A Marketing Man
By Jennifer Beasley Monologue by MJ Wilson MJ Wilson – Performance artist & community worker Move over Wil Anderson, Type-A Marketing Man is here to show you what the Gruen Transfer is really about! Monologues. They either score a bullseye or result in eye-rolling...
Golden Blood
By Adam Rafferty The tale of two orphans toughing it out in the seedy Singaporean underworld isn’t the kind of story that often makes it onto Australian stages, but thanks to the MTC’s NEXT STAGE Writer’s Program (and the Griffin Theatre Company), this excellent...
William Shakespeare’s Reservoir Dogs
By Jennifer Beasley ‘Six knights are hired to rob a case of precious jewels from a coach on its way to the King. After their robbery is thwarted, the brigands realize that one of them must secretly be an officer in disguise. But which one? This is Quentin Tarantino's...
Melbourne Comedy Showcase
By Jennifer Beasley Comedy Showcase featuring: Dave O’Neil, Geraldine Quinn, Brad Oakes and Billy Stiles. This was my first time visiting this cute 167 seat theatre. Supported by the Kingston Council, the Shirley Burke Theatre increases the profile of our creative...
All The Things We’ve Done
By Jennifer Beasley A little like a Fawlty Towers dinner but without the food. Or chairs. The beginning for All The Things We’ve Done at Theatre Works is promising. The patrons are beguiled by the three ‘air hostesses’, actors bedecked in yellow wigs and bright blue...
Features
Greg Horsman on Coco Chanel success, Coppélia and Camellias at Queensland Ballet
By Sarah Skubala Off the back of their sell-out season of Coco Chanel: the Life of a Fashion Icon, Queensland Ballet will be presenting their sister company Shanghai Ballet’s production of Derek Deane’s The Lady of the Camellias, following a short return season of...
Tim Wright brings life to Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol
In what has quickly become a Melbourne festive season tradition, the blockbuster production, A Christmas Carol, returns for a third year this Christmas. Dickens' classic, heart-warming tale tells the story of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas...
The two handedness of The Macbeths
Co-directed by long time collaborators Sharmini Kumar (24 carrot productions) and DL Turnbull (Dad Jeans/Early Days), William Shakespeare's Macbeth is reimagined as a tense, intimate two hander featuring western theatre's most famous couple - The Macbeths. An idea,...
Samwise Holmes and his MARVELous Show
Fresh from a rapturously received Sydney season, MARVELous The Show showcases well known and loved superheroes including Thor, Black Widow, Deadpool, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, Iron Man and more as they’ve never been seen before, in outrageous and unexpected...
MALTHOUSE THEATRE 2025 SEASON LAUNCH
By Jennifer Beasley Malthouse has announced its 2025 season, with seven bold interpretations and visionary theatre performances, it’s Malthouse’s most audacious season yet. At the season launch for 2025, Matthew Lutten, artistic director and Co-CEO of Malthouse...
Maho Magic Bar plus Darkfield’s Séance and Flight return to Brisbane
By Sarah Skubala An immersive experience precinct has arrived in South Bank, offering the adventurous people of BrisVegas a new destination to be spellbound by multi-sensory thrills. After successful runs at previous Brisbane Festival seasons, the hit Japanese magic...
News
World renowned Opera Australia Chorus in the spotlight at Geelong Arts Centre
13 & 15 November 2024 | The Play House, Geelong Arts Centre The spotlight will be firmly focused on the acclaimed Opera Australia Chorus when it arrives in Geelong for the first time this November to perform in a new production, aptly named Chorus! at Geelong...
Casts announced for VIC and QLD seasons of A VERY NAUGHTY CHRISTMAS
In what has fast become Australia’s favourite festive tradition, adults-only Christmas comedy A VERY NAUGHTY CHRISTMAS returns this silly season, with the Melbourne and Queensland casts announced today. The ever-mischievious Tim Paige - also known for Pop-Up Globe’s...
Perth Festival 2025 Program Announcement
Perth Festival today announced its full 2025 program, with new Artistic Director Anna Reece, inviting Perth audiences and visitors to taste the salty air, feel the sand dunes beneath their feet, be challenged by truth-tellers and play with mischief-makers. Running for...
National Institute of Circus Arts presents MUSE
The National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) is delighted to present their graduate showcase, titled MUSE. Curated by Tegan Carmichael. Devised by NICA’s third-year students, with Artistic Consultancy by Alonso Pineda, Emma Pursey, and Donna Dunmire, showing 4 – 7...
Competitions
Win a double pass to Sister Act The Musical
Win a double pass to Sister Act The Musical Sunday 3rd November at 6pm Regent Theatre To enter, simply email Allison.Hilbig@theatrematters.com.au with - Your name - Confirmation you can attend the Regent Theatre on Sunday 3rd November - Why you want to win a...
Win a Double Pass to Skating in the Clouds
Win one of two double passes for the 7:30pm show on Wednesday the 4th of December for Skating in the Clouds at Theatre Works. To be in the running please send your response to the question below to: editor.kris@theatrematters.com.au Who wrote Skating in the Clouds?...
Win a double pass to Phantom of the Opera – in cinema!
Win a double pass to see The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall in cinemas from Thursday 31st October To enter simply email allison.hilbig@theatrematters.com.au with your name and why you want to win a double pass to see The Phantom of the Opera at the...
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