
Sarah-Louise Young: An Evening Without Kate Bush
An actress, writer, director, improviser and internationally renowned cabaret performer, Sarah-Louise Young comes to Sydney Festival for An Evening Without Kate Bush – a glorious celebration of the irresistible forces and incandescent genius of Kate Bush and the fans...

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...

Yumi Umiumare celebrates being out of order
Running since 2017, ButohOUT! is the only creative platform of its kind in Australia. Created and run by artists Yumi Umiumare and Taka Takiguchi 滝口貴, it focuses on the distinctive art form of Butoh. ButohBAR 番狂わせ OUT of ORDER is the 2023 finale event from the...

Madeleine Jones Dives into The Memory of Water
Shelagh Stephenson’s Laurence Olivier Award winning play, The Memory of Water, takes a new look at the age-old traditions of recollecting family stories. A beautiful bittersweet comedy, bound by sisterly love, anger, tears and of course laughter. The 1996 hit British...

Patricia Cornelius: In The Club is about tough stuff.
Written by Patricia Cornelius, one of Australia’s most awarded and uncompromising playwrights, In The Club is a powerful and compelling work that shines a fierce light on consent, coercion, and sexual violence. Given recent news headlines, a timely piece indeed, and...

Vivian Ngyen and her Astonishing Comet Boombox
An interspecies relationship podcast, silicone shamans, and an ancestral trip to a motherboard factory take centre stage in The Astonishing Comet Boombox. This is a brand-new show from Writer and Producer Vivian Ngyuen created with rising playwright Chenturan Aran....

Themme Fatale Talks Le Freak
Le Freak hot on the heels of two sell-out seasons is set to make its return at the 2023 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Featuring world-class, award-winning trans, queer, disabled and sex worker performers Le Freak shines a lens on sideshow and how this artform has...

Tony Nikolakopoulos Talks Life of Byron
Australian comedy legends Tony Nikolakopoulos and George Kapiniaris team up once again to bring you the world premiere of The Life of Byron. Following the success of their national 2-year tour of their previous collaboration, The Last Proxy, the duo, along with writer...

Uma Dobia is… Intolerant
Lifelong allergy sufferer, Uma Dobia, knows a thing or two about navigating the world while looking for danger in every crumb. In her playful new cabaret, Intolerant, Uma uses her genre-hopping vocal, storytelling and comedic skills to confront her obsessions with...

My Cousin Vlad CATASTROPHA!
After taking Australia by storm with People Are Gonna Lose It & The People Have Lost It Tours, Vlad is back with his follow-up tour and third show CATASTROPHA! Welcome to the rabbit hole of culture, ethnic traditions versus Aussie life, modern-day problems, and...

Eva Rees: Hour of the Wolf
Created by Matthew Lutton and Keziah Warner, written by Keziah Warner, and directed by Matthew Lutton, Hour of the Wolf invites audiences to Hope Hill, a fictional town that is yours to freely explore on the longest night of the year. This is the world premiere of a...

Ed Gamester and his real-life superheroes
Following its phenomenal success in the UK, Mythos: Ragnarök will be making its international debut at Melbourne Fringe Festival this October. The creator of the show, Ed Gamester, is delivering a spectacle truly unique in the world. Dexterously weaving ancient myths...
Riding with Anna Lumb in Joyride
Melbourne Fringe is just around the corner and synonymously it brings with it some super effective fringe artists who bring their own creative and exciting visions to the festival. One of those shows is Joyride, a new hybrid physical theatre and live artwork staged in...

Callan Harris – GODZ on Mt Olympus and Beyond
Back from sell-out international and national tours, GODZ, the Winner of the 2022 Melbourne Fringe People's Choice Award now returns to the Fringe at Festival Park . This adults-only, jaw-dropping offering from the Head First Acrobats boys sees their unique mix of...

Debra Oswald This is my Life
One of Australia’s favourite writers, Debra Oswald, (film, television, stage, radio and children's fiction) will take to the stage in a totally honest exploration of the ups, downs and in-betweens of being a writer and how to navigate things post the success of...

Rosa McCarty: Queen of CLOC’s Chess
The Queen and her Checkmates When CLOC Musical Theatre takes to the stage in October with its production of Chess, Rosa McCarty, a mainstay of Melbourne musical theatre, will be revisiting one of her favourite shows and roles as Florence Vassy. ...

Zahra Newman and her Lady Day
Zahra Newman steps into the iconic role of Billie Holiday this month performing in Belvoir’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. Newman, who was very attracted to the project initially because of the inherent creative and technical challenge, says to portray a...

Francesca Savige and her Summer of Harold
Sydney's Ensemble Theatre's latest offering is the world premiere of Summer of Harold, a trio of cracking comedic plays about adventure, obsession and hope from award-winning playwright Hilary Bell. Comprised of two monologues and one two-hander, this powerful new...

Gabriel Comerford and the beauty of idk
Force Majeure's new work, idk, is a movement and narrative performance examining the nuances of navigating consent and the shifting nature of boundaries. Australian-Malaysian artist Gabriel Comerford is one of three performers in the work and says he has been a big...
Anna O’Byrne on becoming Eliza
Playing the role of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady would be an incredible opportunity for any performer, but being directed by none-other-than Dame Julie Andrews herself takes that incredible opportunity to whole different level.This was a unique,...

Albert Mwangi Talks Mr Bailey’s Minder
Actor Albert Mwangi is currently deep in Ensemble Theatre's season of Mr Bailey’s Minder, but has taken some out to speak about the power and humanity of the piece. A potent drama by beloved Australian writer Debra Oswald, Mr Bailey's Minder was written in 2005 and...

Zya Kane and her Sense of Place
Sense of Place is the latest offering by Weave Movement Theatre and, as the title suggests, is an exploration of the spaces and places in our hearts, minds, memories and everyday reality through physical theatre, soundscape, and visual projections. Co-Director Zya...

Toni Scanlan explores lifelong friendships in The Weekend
Australian author Charlotte Wood’s bestselling novel of friendship and the wisdom of age, The Weekend, is set to make its world premiere at Belvoir early next month. Adapted for the stage by the acclaimed playwright Sue Smith the play explores growing old and growing...

Jennifer Vuletic and Chopin’s Piano
Musica Viva Australia is thrilled to present Chopin’s Piano, a stunning fusion of chamber music and theatrical performances honouring Frederick Chopin’s revolutionary 24 Preludes, as well as the history of a small, craftsman’s pianino. For acclaimed actor Jennifer...
Alistair Baldwin’s Telethon Kid
About a disability influencer and body positivity activist, comedian Alistair Baldwin's debut play, Telethon Kid, is about to hit the Malthouse Theatre stage. Exploring the life of protagonist Sam, who rises to fame as the poster child of Perth Children’s Hospital...

Alaine Beek celebrates a magnificent milestone with What Was That?
Running at the Werribee Park Mansion since 2003, Essence Theatre Productions will very soon be celebrating their 1000th performance of What Was That?, a play written by Alaine Beek and based on the true story of The Chirnside Family. Beek's 20 year commitment of...

Jing Xuan-Chan: The family and identity of Miss Peony
Presenting a tri-lingual show for the first ever time on a Sydney mainstage, Miss Peony is a glitzy, glamorous and slightly-unhinged dive into the world of beauty pageants, featuring projected captions in English, Cantonese and Simplified Chinese simultaneously...

The Success of Starlight Express
Earlier this month, one of Andrew Lloyd Weber's most successful musicals reached a significant milestone: Starlight Express celebrated 35 years in Bochum, Germany. During those 35 years more than 839 artists from 36 countries have performed well over...

Stewart Reeve’s Chameleon – A show not to be missed
Stewart Reeve, star of the hit show Rebel, returns to the Melbourne stage this July with his award-winning one-man show, Chameleon. Catering to all ages, Chameleon is a family friendly event and a great way for music-loving parents to introduce their children to all...

Iopu Auva’a: Away is driven by love
Michael Gow's iconic Australian work, Away, is set to o open at Theatre Works early next month. Clever, funny yet deeply moving, Away has become one of the most widely produced Australian plays of all time. Set in the Australian summer of 1967-1968 the play...

Wil King sets the tone for This Is Living
This July, Malthouse Theatre presents Ash Flanders’ new work, This Is Living, a semi-autobiographical play that turns The Malthouse into a Hepburn Springs getaway. The work is described as the saltiest, sweetest, and most honest look at love and friendship you’ll see....

Tamzen Hayes moving through a collection of memories
Tamzen Hayes brings her sensitive and vulnerable show, Never Said Motel, to the 2023 Bondi Festival, on from 30 June to 16 July. Part solo performance and part installation piece, Never Said Motel, first premiered at Melbourne Writers Festival in 2019, then went on...

Mark Kilmurry: Benefactors is the perfect night out
Writer Michael Frayn, creator of international hits Copenhagen and Noises Off, explores what it is to be human in a statistically driven world, in Benefactors, his Olivier Award-winning 1984 comedy set in the late 1960s. Presented by Sydney's Ensemble Theatre and...

Eric Turro Martinez- The King of Cuban Dance
Eric Turro Martinez, of Buena Vista Social Club fame, has got a brand new show that is playing this June for one night only at The Palms. Buena Vista Dance tells the story of Cuba's golden age through narrator and dance and will be a fascinating look at Cuba's...

Alison Richards Speaks Konstantin: Grandmother’s Tongue
Konstantin: Grandmother’s Tongue, is a multicultural, multidisciplinary, slyly political and highly creative performance piece about chickens and human migration set to take the Loft Theatre stage at Chapel Off Chapel from 23 – 25 June. Five years in the making, the...

Paul English finds a friend in Willy Loman
The well respected Melbourne Independent Theatre Co. Hearth Theatre, is currently on tour with Arthur Miller's classic 1949 play Death of a Salesman. Following on from their hugely successful season in 2022 this extraordinary ensemble of Melbourne actors will be...

Rachel Edmonds Speaks their Truth in When you Wore Braces
When you wore Braces is Rachel Edmonds' taut, thrilling debut play about sisters, families, secrets and the dark recesses of the fragile human psyche. It deftly explores the raw intimacy of sibling reklatinship0s and the ways they expose a person's capacity for...

Tasnim Hossain – developing creative partnerships
I Wanna Be Yours is the widely acclaimed debut play from London Laureate and poetry slam champion Zia Ahmed, a contemporary cross-cultural romance. Directed by Resident Director Tasnim Hossain, it is a compelling new work exploring identity, racism and love, this...

Briony Dunn: The Feast That is Moth
An action-packed graphic-novel fiction fantasy by Declan Greene is about to erupt at Theatre Works - Moth is a love-letter to every teen… and to those who used to be. Directed by Briony Dunn, Moth spotlights a climactic bullying incident that devastates a friendship...

Dion Mills is Uncle Vanya
This June, multi-award-winning director Bronwen Coleman (Dirt, Naomi, Ignis) and the Anthropocene Play Company breathe immediacy and new life into Anton Chekhov’s renowned classic, Uncle Vanya. First published in 1898 and first performed in 1899 at the Moscow Art...

Top 10 Coronation-themed Musicals
Our Top 10 Coronation-themed Musicals 10. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Joseph's ability to interpret the king's dreams is pivotal to his journey. In 'Song of the King' the Pharoah asks Joseph to interpret his confusing dreams. 9. Pippin...
Driftwood: the true story of an extraordinary woman
Driftwood The Musical is an inspirational story about renowned artists Karl and Slawa Duldig, the invention of the foldable umbrella and their miraculous escape from the Holocaust. When Slawa Horowitz-Duldig passed away in the mid 1970s she left behind...

Ruva Ngwenya: from party tricks to Tina Turner
Singing was merely something Ruva Ngwenya considered to be her "party trick". Instead, Ruva Ngwenya describes herself as being a sports fanatic during her early years at Kew High School. "I did all the sports - volleyball, netball," commented Nwenya. "And then...

Sammy J’s Good Hustle
After five years, 200 episodes and countless legal threats Sammy J is stepping away from his weekly ABC TV spot – but not before throwing a giant farewell party. Come and farewell Government Coach, Playground Politics, National Yoga, bush poet SJ Paterson,...

Nicolette Minster’s Net Worth is Worthy
According to NetWorthRanks, Nicolette Minster is a 6ft, 30-year-old worth $15mil. Except she’s not. She’s a 38-year-old who shops in the same Woolies she used to work at and whose career highlight was starring (featuring) alongside Meryl Streep at age three. But what...

Andrew Hansen: Comedy, Music and Life
Andrew Hansen, 'the good one from The Chaser', is about to take his Andrew Hansen is Cheap gig on tour. Just finishing up his MICF stint, 2023 Adelaide Fringe Winner, Hansen, talks show, comedy, music and more. ------------------------------------------------ - How...

Dylan Cole’s Case Numbers – a show about a man who’s inherited a locked briefcase
Written and performed by writer/performer Dylan Cole, Case Numbers is a fascinating meta-thriller that analyses the narrative conventions used in writing. It has no beginning or ending and, while there is a middle, it’s entirely pointless. Nominated for Best Comedy...

The Briefing: Melissa McGlensey’s Theatrical Playground
Professional Hecklers; this one’s for you. With her political aspirations in full flight, right-wing blowhard Sarah Huckabee Sanders has embarked on an international propaganda tour. The former White House Press Secretary (turned Fox News host) is now the Governor of...

Otto & Astrid’s Joint Solo Project Set To Detonate at This Year’s MICF
Berlin’s prince and princess of art rock and Europop, Otto & Astrid, spent years arguing about which songs should appear on their much-anticipated fifth Die Roten Punkte album. Unable to come to a consensus they decided to tour separately with their own musicians,...

Alexander Sefton: From Newcastle to the Sydney Opera House
When rising Opera Australia baritone, Alexander Sefton took his bows on the stage of the Sydney Opera House, the moment was much more emotional than he'd anticipated. Alexander Sefton made his role debut as Schaunard in Puccini's La Bohème. It wasn't the first time...
Keziah Warner and her Nosferatu
Gothic drama enthusiasts are in for absolute treat later this month as Malthouse Theatre prepares the unveiling of Nosferatu. An atmospheric work based on the 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, playwright Keziah Warner takes...

Kellie Gnauck: From Opera to Meatloaf
Kellie Gnauck never imagined she'd be belting out the songs of Meatloaf in a rock arena musical. Her first introduction to the arts was attending opera. "I had a grandad who was quite a famous opera singer and he worked for the Sydney Opera Company," she explained....

Amy May Nunn’s Lemon Tree on Dreg Street
Playing as a part of the 2023 Midsumma Festival, award-winning playwright and poet Amy May Nunn returns to Theatre Works with their latest work; Lemon Tree on Dreg Street. Nunn confesses that the play emerged from a lockdown writing exercise and was never intended...

Megan Wilding talks Darkness – the new modern Prometheus
Daring you to look into the future, and set to premiere in Sydney this weekend, Darkness is a tantalizing collaboration between artists Andrew Bovell, Zoey Dawson, Dino Dimitriadis, Dan Gioannoni and Megan Wilding. Enticingly, the number of collaborators involved is...

Boxing Day BBQ – a venture behind the red curtain.
By Nick Pilgrim Established in 1958, Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre is one of the city’s leading independent live entertainment groups. Located in leafy Kirribilli, their harbour inlet home base is a brisk ten walk from Milson’s Point Railway Station on the North Shore...
Jane Montgomery Griffiths hopes to inspire with The MILF and Mistress
Midsumma, Australia's premier queer arts and cultural festival, makes its triumphant return in 2023. The MILF and Mistress is one of the brilliant shows premiering late January promising to heat up Summer. Asking, does happily ever after simply expire, The MILF and...

Bollywood, puppetry and sacred vultures in of Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream
The Sydney Festival returns this January to its largest line-up of international artists since 2019 –featuring 748 performances traversing 54 venues. Promising to give the city its sizzle with an exhilarating line-up of vibrant ideas, irrepressible creativity,...

Alex Rathgeber’s dramatic year
Alex Rathgeber has already enjoyed an extensive and diverse international career. He's played Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera on London's West End. He's appeared in numerous television series, and played roles on stage ranging from the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz to...

Top Ten Most Wanted Musicals
Our Theatre Matters team of editors, writers and reviewers were asked which musicals they would most like to see have their Australian premiere. 125 votes were cast to create our list of the Top Ten Most Wanted Musicals. 10. Sister Act the Musical The film was...

Blake Bowden’s dream role
Blake Bowden has enjoyed an enviable theatre career. "My first show was in my second year out of high school. I was just 19 and, not giving away my age, but I am, I'm going into my 19th year in theatre. I'm almost at that 20 year mark so time does go really quickly!"...
Alistair Ward seeks the in-between moments in this moment in time
this moment in time, by Alistair Ward, is described as a queer play about leaving behind your twenties, following your gut, and how one fleeting conversation can alter the path of your whole life. An intriguing concept fuelled by Ward's real conversations and...
Euan Fistrovic Doidge: grateful to be donning Joseph’s coat
Euan Fistrovic Doidge has certainly not been type-cast into theatre roles. His list of credits include Paul San Marco in A Chorus Line, Marius in Les Miserables, Felicia in Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever and Lewis in Pippin, as well...
Angus Cameron’s Very Raw and Earnest cavemxn
Winner of the 2015 Midsumma Queer Playwrighting Award and shortlisted for the Red Stitch INK new writing program in the same year, Angus Cameron’s award-winning play, cavemxn, is about to beat its way to Chapel Off Chapel. A play written in stages, and over some...
Matthew Lutton’s Gothic Monsters
Hatching from the darkly creative minds of Malthouse Theatre Artistic Director Matthew Lutton, choreographer Stephanie Lake and Sydney-based writer Emme Hoy, Monsters - described as a thrilling fever dream and promising more than a few chills and thrills - was born...
Aaron Orzech – An Abandoned Neverland
An epic work five years in the making, NEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVER is the story of a special bond and a special friendship between two seemingly, on the surface, disparate individuals. Aaron Orzech is 36 and Sol Feldman is 13, together their theatrical...

Amanda Muggleton Is The Mentor
Theatre Works is in the habit of supporting new Australian works with The Mentor, by playwright Joshua White, being no exception. A tour de force two-hander, The Mentor is White's first page to stage production. An exciting work shaped by many creative hands and...

Therèsa Borg’s Titanic Task
Therèsa Borg co-founded Melbourne production house TEG Entertainment Store/Life Like Touring for whom she wrote and directed over 20 family musicals. Her directing credits, amongst others, include Sweeney Todd, starring Anthony Warlow and Gina Riley at Her Majesty’s...
‘To the Upside Down’ and Back: It’s been a big year for Melbourne theatre darlings, Salty Theatre
By Guy Webster It has been quite a year for Stranger Things fans. When Season 4 premiered in May it immediately broke binge-watching records, launching the series - and a certain Kate Bush banger - back into pop culture relevance with a vengeance. It seems there’s no...

Thomas Gorham at the Feet of GODZ
As a part of the 2022 Melbourne Fringe Festival Head First Acrobats present GODZ - a hedonistic, head-first dive into the lives of the ancient Gods of Olympus. A truly epic show - the most highly reviewed show at the 2022 Adelaide Fringe Festival -performer Thomas...
Amanda LaBonté – Emilia doesn’t whinge, she does.
The ground-breaking triple Olivier Award-winning play Emilia will make its Australian debut at Arts Centre Melbourne from 10 – 27 November. Inspired by the life of the 17th century poet and feminist Emilia Bassano, this Morgan Lloyd Malcolm work features a team...

John Owen-Jones and a once in a lifetime concert
John Owen-Jones has an impressive career that includes having performed the role of Jean Valjean in productions of Les Misérables both in the West End and on Broadway. In an online poll, John Owen-Jones was voted the “Best Ever Valjean” and “Best Ever Performer in Les...

Ignis – Bronwen Coleman’s landscape on fire
With an ingenious band of fabulous independent theatre makers conjuring up a veritable smorgasbord of fantastic and intriguing independent theatre, Melbourne Fringe is the place to be this October. One of those intriguing works is the gripping premiere season of Ignis...

Melbourne Theatre Company Season 2023
By Adam Rafferty The first season in three years (expected) to be unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 is full of new beginnings, not the least, the first to be programmed by Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks. For the company’s 70th anniversary year, they’re...

Top Ten Father Songs
Here’s our Top Ten List of Father Songs from musicals to celebrate all the fathers and father figures in our lives … 10. 'The Pants Song' - Be More Chill The Australian premiere of Be More Chill by Manly Black Box Theatre took place in 2018. This song...

Ra Chapman’s K-BOX lifts the lid on parent-adoptee relationships
Ra Chapman, Malthouse Theatre’s 2018/2019 Writer in Residence and current Artist in Residence, is soon to make her mainstage theatre debut with K-BOX, a comical new play about a 30-something year old Korean adoptee who brings guts and hard truths to the suburban...
Jordan Barr talks the humanity of The Humans
Stephen Karam's 2016 Pulitzer Prize nominated play, The Humans, is a profound and rich drama that captures both the psychological and emotional ebbs and flows of a family dealing with age and illness, fear and disappointment. **Coinciding with Dementia Action Week...
Miranda Middleton Muses Senser
Senser, the new Australian work by much-lauded Gumbaynggirr and Turkish playwright Brittanie Shipway, poses the intriguing hypothetical: "Would you risk everything to hear a song one last time?" Set in a futuristic world where music is outlawed, the piece is heavily...

Becoming Anna O’Byrne
By Ellen Burgin – Senior Writer She’s just loverly- Internationally renowned performer Anna O’Byrne has worked with some of the greatest legends in musical theatre history – Dame Julie Andrews says she is one of the loveliest Australian actresses in musical theatre...
Suzie Miller, Tolstoy and Anna K
A breakneck story of romance, love, power and justice, Anna K is the latest work by acclaimed Melbourne born playwright, Suzie Miller. A Thoroughly Modern Millie piece, Miller takes the notion that it takes a lifetime to build a career with integrity and a single...

Top Ten Morning Songs
Here's our Top Ten List of Morning Songs from musicals to get your day off to a bright start ... Top Ten Morning Songs 10. The Morning Report - The Lion King Because who doesn't love the morning news being presented by birds and animals? 9....

Oz Fudge, Brian Mosher and Come From Away
When the tragic terrorist attack known as "9-11" took place, thousands of flights were cancelled, turned back or rediverted. A total of 38 planes carrying 6,579 passengers and crew landed in Gander, a small town with a population of less than 10,000, on the island of...

Gone Girls: Patrick Livesey’s Ode To Gillard and Bishop
Written and performed by Patrick Livesey and Annabel Larcombe, Gone Girls is the hour of politics you’ve never seen before and always needed. It cleverly spotlights real events in the Australian political landscape, with a twist - including the infamous Misogyny...

Seeing herself in BLUE – Queenie van de Zandt
By Ellen Burgin – Senior Writer, Theatre Matters In her love letter from one artistic, melancholy mother, to another, Queenie van de Zandt celebrates the 50th anniversary of Joni Mitchell’s landmark album BLUE. For years, the renowned cabaret artist had wanted to...

AN INTERVIEW WITH JOSH PITERMAN
We caught up with Josh Piterman, star of the forthcoming Phantom Of The Opera Australian Tour as he announces his exciting new music release ‘Loving You’. Recorded between London and Melbourne, the 4-track EP is a musical collaboration with UK friend, producer &...