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Every year or so, I see a show that stays with me for life – for it’s content, performances, something makes it stick in the back of my memory and continue to rave about it long after the curtain as fallen. This year, I strongly feel it will be this enlightening, powerful, honest and witty feminist manifesto that takes on the big bad c word – cancer.
Melbourne Playback Theatre Company’s shows are all made up of real events, and they’re back for 2018 with two days of performances for all ages, with Love is Love and Imaginarium.
A loud, technology infused millennial call to action, like a psychedelic rock and roll drug infused dream, American Idiot has smashed into the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne following a sell out season in Brisbane in 2017.
Falsettos is a fascinating and edgy piece of theatre for a number of reasons – its snide and witty Jewish humour, its exploration of homosexuality at a time where we weren’t as out and proud as we are now, and right as the HIV AIDs crisis broke and no one knew what was going on. Stage Art have bitten off a huge emotional rollercoaster of a musical, delivering a show that examines love and the crisis of masculinity.
A musical that challenges the portrayal and stereotypes of lesbians in popular culture, and coincidentally opened on the night of the Marriage Equality postal survey results being announced, left itself big shoes to fill.
BREAD CRUMBS is a warped retelling of the well-known fable Hansel and Gretel – it’s a crass and highly stylised exploration into the link between gender roles, domestic abuse and the scarring impact it has on young people.
It’s not often I get the pleasure of interviewing and writing a feature, and then also reviewing the show, but I was lucky enough to speak to Tom Middleditch of A_tistic and director and producer Jayde Kirchert ahead of the opening of the show.
Illumi-Nation Theatre director, Michele McNamara, has brought together five poetic monologues from award-winning Australian playwright, Daniel Keene as part of this year’s Poppyseed Festival.
Alexithymia is described as the inability to name and describe emotions, which affects 85% of people diagnosed on the autism spectrum. Citizen Theatre and A_tistic have joined forces to create a new theatrical work that gives a voice to stories of females who are on the spectrum.
Melbourne cult cabaret icon Yana Alana is a multi- Green Room award winner, a Helpmann award winner, a femme drag star and this week, an artist launching her first album.
If you take one thing away from this funny look at life as a young millennial woman trying to work out your finances, its this: A man is not a financial plan.
A hot mess of glitter, circus performers and powerful voices, Diary of a Power Pussy has the potential to be a really fantastic show, if it had been rehearsed.
If ever there was a belly laughing, glittery, musical inspiration drag queen performance that captures the spirit of Melbourne Fringe Festival, then this is it. It’s like a dramatic, colour saturated version of Priscilla, Queen of the Dessert at the Olympics in Sydney…
Merrily the show rolls along in the Lawler Theatre, with Watch This’ latest production, Merrily We Roll Along opening to sold-out audiences last week. The show, their next Sondheim offering following their production of Company has a book by George Furth and is based on the original 1934 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.
Bristol based artists Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse are taking over Arts House as company in residence with their company Action Hero and three works that are set to provoke, entertain and unhinge.
In a joyous celebration of female musicianship, acclaimed Melbourne music director, singer and violinist Xani Kolac will bring together a stellar ensemble of female instrumentalists for Stand by Your Woman
It’s disappointing that the Union Theatre at University of Melbourne wasn’t fuller for opening night of this charming production of Sunday in the Park with George, a bright and brilliant look at art and creation, love and connection in 1800s Paris.
Boutique Theatre are celebrating their 10th production since 2012, and while being one of the most active independent companies in Melbourne, they’re still flying under the radar.
A warm hearted cabaret experience awaits you at Kindred Studios for three nights only, with Western Arts Theatre Inc’s original XYZ.
