All tagged Review
How do I find the words to talk about Bryony Kimmings’ latest show, which is in such high demand she’s currently performing two additional morning shows? Join me in my love letter to Kimmings’ most recent and most powerful piece of autobiographical theatre yet.
At the end of the world, a girl sits alone listening to the radio, listening for signs of life. In her despair and loneliness, she swallows a bottle of pills… and the radio comes to life. Has she imagined it? Is it real? Is there someone out there?
Click bait and fake news bring War of the Worlds into the 21st century in this powerful, fast paced play.
A lovely new musical about a Scottish family moving to Australia, fighting for their family legacy and how grief can tear a family apart.
If you can get past how inappropriate, cruel (well, duh), and kind of icky the movie is, Cruel Intentions is a lot of fun on stage, complete with every 90s banger you love to hate, but still just as inappropriate and awkward as the original film.
A sharp, witty and engrossing play that focuses on the female sergeant at the heart of the Yorkshire Ripper investigation in the 80s. Because women can investigate too.
A raw gem written and devised by students, this show is perfect if you want to see the future and evolution of musical theatre.
The One where they can’t decide what this show is - ★★.
Something special is happening at The Other Palace this week. The room is buzzing, and I overhear a women excitedly exclaiming, ‘What if this becomes the next big thing, and we get to say we saw it there first in the workshopping stage?’.
The Prague Fringe Festival may be over for another year, and I may be back at home on UK soil, but here is what I saw and my picks for the final few days of the festival, which you should keep an eye out for in the future.
It’s been a slightly quieter few days, we’ve had a massive turn over of shows and a whole lot of brand new shows come in, with plenty more to cram in for my final few days!
Trying to find the laughter in the darkness and the irony of it all, join David Baddiel for a wild ride of leg slapping humour as he recounts all of the eccentricities, funny stories and uniquenesses of his parents lives through stand up comedy.
In the real life aftermath of Trump’s immigration policies, Melbourne has gained a rising star of cabaret, musical theatre and performance in Melissa David.
There is no more fitting a celebration for a triple 20 year anniversary: for the show The Boy From Oz, for The Production Company and for Rohan Browne’s professional debut. The 2018 season of The Boy From Oz is everything: cheeky, heartfelt, endlessly energetic, and a serious force to be reckoned with – the show is near flawless and tickets should be snatched up immediately.
For a company only five years old, which was literally formed in someone’s actual shed in a back yard, The Bloomshed have established themselves firmly as experts in reanimating older texts, bastardising classic texts to create cutting edge, political contemporary theatre.
This return season is nearly sold out, and rightly so: this brilliant show by Anthony Crowley returns after first blasting onto stages in October 2016. This show has the makings of a cult classic indie musical, with its wild and wonderful story line, weird characters and sense of fun and light heartedness, Motor-mouth Loves-suck Face is back to charm audiences and dazzle with everything from zombies to a Bollywood diversion: there is seriously not a single element in this show not to love.
The Rocky Horror Show is back! Fresh, fabulous, energetic and shaking off the controversy and allegations that riddled the previous tour, it brings the house down with an opening night party full of laughs, sparkles and glamour.
You’re always in for an entertaining, roaring with laughter and unpredictably funny kind of night when you see a Big Hoo Ha show, and their 8th birthday show at Howler in Brunswick absolutely upheld this
He’s a Helpmann nominated cabaret performer, been smashing it over in London, sold out shows at Edinburgh, Adelaide and Perth Fringe Festivals and now he lights up Chapel Off Chapel’s Loft as part of Provocaré Festival, Reuben Kaye has been described as “The evil love child of Liza Minnelli and Jim Carrey is a dazzling explosion of songs, lashes and teeth!” and he does not disappoint this description.
18th century French drama and glamour has landed at the Northcote Town Hall with Heartstring Theatre’s production of David Adjmi’s Marie Antoinette. Filled with florals and tulle and the talent of six exceptional performers, this show is modern in its presentation but true to the history of the French revolution and the last Queen of France’s story.
