Latest Reviews
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By Nick Pilgrim Written by the late Edward Albee (1928-2016), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is considered a modern theatrical classic. Sixty years ago since its Broadway debut and set on a university campus, the story is a gripping character study of two marriages...
A Christmas Carol
By Chenoah Eljan A Christmas Carol is a timeless classic that reminds us there are many things more valuable than money, including love, human connection, charity and generosity. This adaptation written by Jack Thorne does so with wit, music, and a contemporary...
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
By Nick Pilgrim In the vast and varied landscape of Australia’s independent live entertainment scene, for more than a decade Little Ones Theatre has carved itself an impressive niche. Known for their commitment to showcasing queer comedy and drama at capital city...
A Very Jewish Christmas Carol
By Carissa Shale Whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah or Chrismukkah, ‘A Very Jewish Christmas Carol’ is a heart-warming, must-see production, just in time for the holiday season. Produced by Melbourne Theatre Company, this original festive comedy is a fresh and...
Prisoner at The World’s End
By Anna Hayes The story of Julian Assange is one that dots in and out of our media consumption these days. After seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, he was arrested in April 2019 and transferred to Belmarsh Prison where he remains while fighting against a...
ART
Review by Josiah Hilbig First premiered in France in 1994, Art is an award-winning play that tells a simple story inspired by a personal experience of the playwright Yasmina Reza: Serge buys a particularly expensive painting—no more than white lines on a...
La Cage Aux Folles
By David Gardette Based on the 1973 French farce of the same name, La Cage Aux Folles (The Cage of Mad Women), premiered on Broadway in 1983 and enjoyed a hit four-year run, culminating in 6 Tony Awards. With numerous revivals, International stagings, more awards and...
Dogfight
By Annie Zeleznikow Dogfight is a soulful musical about a rag tag team of young marines heading for Vietnam in the 1960’s. Before they are deployed they spend their last few hours of freedom in San Francisco, conforming to the tradition of marine’s past by hosting a...
Orlando
By Rebecca Waese Orlando, the first musical production by Antipodes Theatre Company, adapts Virginia Woolf’s novel of the same name, portraying a young, privileged artist who writes and loves, changes from a man to a woman, and lives almost 300 years. The production...
Features
Ariadne Sgouros Talks the tour de farce that is Midnight Murder at Hamlington Hall
It is the opening night of director-writer Shane Tweed’s new murder mystery, Midnight Murder at Hamlington Hall. Seven of the amateur theatre company’s cast are down with the dreaded lurgy. So, the Middling Cove Players’ director and two of the remaining actors, and...
Ren Ruidi Celebrates her Asian heritage in I ME SHE HIM | 你和我和她和他
Wit Incorporated are thrilled to be bringing the first English translation and production of Stan Lai’s script, I ME SHE HIM | 你和我和她和他 to the stage this month. It's a premiere season of the English version with the Chinese version first being published in 1998 in...
Rosario La Spina Talks the Wonder of the World’s First Digital Ring Cycle
Nicknamed the ‘Olympics of opera’, comprising 15+ hours of music across four evenings, the world's first digital Ring Cycle opens Dec 1 in Brisbane. After two pandemic postponements, QLD resident, and internationally successful tenor, Rosario La Spina, will be...
Stephanie Lambourn: Be the very best version of yourself at Christmas
First published in 1843, Charles Dickens' classic tale, A Christmas Carol, about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited by his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, returns to Melbourne to delight...
Anna Samson tackles her fears in The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita is a novel by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in secret in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940, during Stalin's regime. Banned and censored for many decades, it wasn't until the late 60's that a complete manuscript was finally...
Kamarra Bell-Wykes on a wild visceral ride
This November, Malthouse Theatre presents an extraordinary double bill by First Nations company A DATLIGHT CONNECTION, featuring the critically acclaimed productions Whose Gonna Love ‘Em? I am that I AM and the return season of the 2022 hit Chase. Led by visionary...
News
WATCH THIS MILESTONE – GRASS-ROOTS MELBOURNE COMPANY CELEBRATES ITS 10TH BIRTHDAY!
It’s been 10 years since Watch This burst onto the stage with their debut season of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins at Melbourne’s iconic fortyfivedownstairs. A bold gambit, but one that paid off. A decade on, Watch This has established an enviable reputation,...
YIRRAMBOI Announces 2025 Commissions Program
YIRRAMBOI – Melbourne’s leading First Nations arts festival – is thrilled to open its 2025 Commissions opportunities, which includes the return of the YIRRAMBOI Commissions, alongside International Collaborative Commissions, focus nation; Canada. YIRRAMBOI – which...
Amanda Palmer returns to Arts Centre Melbourne for one night only
Singer/Songwriter Amanda Palmer reflects on her two years waylaid in Aotearoa New Zealand with her young son during the pandemic when she returns to Arts Centre Melbourne’s Hamer Hall on 3 February 2024, as part of an intimate run of Australian and New Zealand shows....
THE WHARF REVUE Extended By Popular Demand
Due to huge critical and audience acclaim, The Wharf Revue: Pride in Prejudice has been extended for a further week to 23 December. No further extension is possible. The Wharf Revue (minus wharf) is now in its third year of self-government, and twenty-fourth year of...
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