Latest Reviews
Anisa Nandaula You Can’t Say That
By Jessica Taurins. Anisa Nandaula is like your best friend. She's got a smile that lights up the room, a warm personality, and she'll say the most messed up sh-t you've ever heard. Thus is the premise of her MICF 2025 show - You Can't Say That. As a black woman...
Scout Boxall God’s Favourite
By Jessica Taurins. I've seen a lot of shows at the Malthouse. Some are great, some are less so, some are true art, and some are called 'art' but are less artistic than the gum I've scraped out of my shoes. God's Favourite? That's Art. Capital A Art. Scout Boxall...
Swamplesque
By Mama Natalia, Let’s not beat around the bush, I’ve seen a lot of burlesque in the last twenty years - the good, the badass and the ugly, and Swamplesque (Trigger Happy Productions), playing in it’s final VIC season as part of the Melbourne International...
Carmelo Costa Homecoming
By Jennifer Beasley. The best Queer comedian at the MICF, Costa, sweet and likeable, easily entertains his audience with killer wit, Gay sex stories of the bluest kind and laser insights. I’ve seen a bit of Queer comedy at MICF this season. Which means you do get a...
Adam Rozenbachs Warm Regards
By Jennifer Beasley. One of Australia’s best comedy writers provides a hilarious hour of standup comedy with his keen wit and observational humour. Adam Rozenbachs is like the Australian Royalty of Standup Comedy. He is frequently the warmup act for Dave Hughes and...
Ethan Cavanagh Bond, Lost My Bond
By Jennifer Beasley. Ethan Cavanagh is going places - fast. Intelligent comedy threaded by themes of renting, alcohol consumption and a serial killer makes a humour suit that will keep you giggling. MICF has ended. Not with a whimper but with a huge laugh as Ethan...
Circus Oz Non Stop
By Jennifer Beasley. Circus Oz excel once again with an infectious feast of acrobatic delights, hand-clapping music and daredevilry in this non-stop energy performance. Sixty minutes of pure adrenaline! Aerial stunts! Slapstick comedy! And-my all-time favourite-...
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By Natalie Ristovski There is an age old adage - if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it - and this could have been the mantra for my latest foray into the chaotically creative domain of the Sh!tfaced Shakespeare team for the 2025 Melbourne Comedy Festival, a good 12 months...
Nic Davey-Greene Only If You Love Me
By Chenoah Eljan. Worried about microplastics? Not sure if you’re getting enough? You are not alone. Nic Davey-Greene is so worked up about it he wrote a song. He wrote a bunch of other songs too and bundled them into his debut solo show, Only If You Love Me. It is...
Features
Rachelle Ann Go: overcoming insecurities with joy
Rachelle Ann Go was always destined to be a singer. Her parents told her she was humming along to a song on the radio at just eight months old. Inspired, her father taught her to sing and play musical instruments. At the age of six her father would put her on...
Katie Reddin-Clancy End Game
Multi-award-winning writer and performer Katie Reddin-Clancy presents a dark comedy about an eccentric cabaret performer’s soul review. How would you describe your show to someone who knows very little about it? It’s a solo show about a cabaret performers soul review!...
Little Train Creative Popera: Sex, Death & Politics
Uma Dobia is your game show host for the evening as we spin the wheel, shake our maracas and ding our dong. Spotify playlists collide in Popera with questions such as "Why did Trevor leave? What’s cockrockera? And, who will win the air fryer?". How would you describe...
Jesus Christ Superstar
Check out the cast of Jesus Christ Superstar performing for Melbourne's media at the Princess Theatre! The iconic global phenomenon, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, is now playing, with a mesmerising new production that has received unprecedented acclaim and accolades...
Wilson Dixon – Love Don’t Live Here Anymore, You Do
Direct from Cripple Creek, Colorado, country music legend Wilson Dixon returns to Melbourne International Comedy Festival for the first time in years. Known to many as the greatest country singer Cripple Creek has ever produced – as well as the only country singer...
Lachlan Hamill Travels Berlin
Love, history and identity will collide on stage when Joanna Murray-Smith’s spine-tingling romantic thriller, Berlin, returns to Melbourne following its sell-out run in 2023. Actor Lachlan Hamill describes watching Berlin at MTC in 2021 as the most incredible piece of...
News
Yes Yes Yes at Riverside Theatres
Humorous, witty and moving, Yes Yes Yes sparks conversation where conversation can be difficult! Jamie and Ari like each other. Karin and Tom do too. They might be at two separate parties, but their stories are identical. Until they really aren’t. Part documentary,...
20+ CELEBRITIES TO TAKE PART IN VABT FUNDRAISER
The Victorian Actors’ Benevolent Trust will bring together some of Australia’s biggest stars for its first ever Very Appealing Showbiz Trivia Fundraiser and invites the public to join in the fun and test their trivia knowledge whilst helping to raise funds to provide...
1984 national tour cast announcement
Shake & Stir Theatre Co is proud to announce the cast for its highly anticipated 2025 national tour of 1984, George Orwell’s chilling dystopian masterpiece, beginning in May. Following the success of its recent national tour of Frankenstein, the company once again...
Run Rabbit and MELON at Flight Path Theatre
Sydney audiences are in for a treat this May, as two original one-woman shows take the stage in a powerful double bill at Flight Path Theatre. Featuring the Sydney premieres of RUN RABBIT by Victoria Abbott and MELON by Ella Randle, this pairing brings together two...
Competitions
Win Tickets to Love and Information
Win one of 2 double passes for the 7:30pm show on Friday the 30th of May for Love and Information at Theatre Works Acland Street St Kilda. To be in the running, please send your responses to the below to: editor.kris@theatrematters.com.au What won't someone do?...
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