By Jennifer Beasley. A brilliantly written play and a dream cast with excellent direction make this an instant Australian classic.  Well, wasn’t I a lucky ducky to get to review this? Occasionally one gets to see THAT play, the elusive ode to the muse of creativity,...

By Jennifer Beasley. Gritty, mesmerising and uber athletic, Andrea James Lui slays the pole and captivates the audience.  It’s the Midsumma Festival, and to begin my foray into the start of 22 days of LGBTQ+ offerings, I decided to go with a bang. The Pole Shebang, to...

By Ash Cottrell For me, Wednesday evenings during summer are for opening nights and mid-week drinks. While January in Melbourne is, in many cases, about the tennis, it’s important not to forget the joy and stimulation of another kind of spectacle - the theatre. A...

By Suzanne Tate Duck Pond was a captivating experience, combining the tales of ‘Swan Lake’ & ‘The Ugly Duckling’ with breathtaking acrobatics and circus arts. The creativity in the amalgamation of these two stories in such an effective and entertaining way, with...

By Jennifer Beasley. SPECTACULAR! Gravity & Other Myths present their latest jaw-dropping circus act, Ten Thousand Hours, to the Playhouse at The Melbourne Arts Centre. At a frantic 60 minutes, this fast paced, strikingly visual and fear-inducing performance will...

  Saturday Night Fever, the musical debuted in London's West End in 1998, with a book by Nan Knighton in collaboration with Arlene Phillips, Paul Nicholas and Robert Stigwood. However, long before the stage adaptation, Saturday Night Fever was a movie starring...

By Jennifer Beasley. Artistic Director Glenn Elston OAM has once again demonstrated his complete mastery on the plays of William Shakespeare with this riotous deconstruction of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, with hilarious results in this play within several plays,...

Review by Annie Zeleznikow Given its status as a cultural and musical juggernaut, I imagine I don’t need to explain the plot of CATS. Never mind that the plot is as simple as its title (it’s about Cats!) you don’t need to follow the plot closely to greatly enjoy the...

Review by Suzanne Tate   Anastasia sweeps the audience up in what the author Terrence McNally describes as the ‘fairytale’ of a possible life of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov, the youngest daughter of the last Czar of Russia, played by Georgina...