Fleabag is my personal pick of the Melbourne International Comedy Fest 2018. I’d been trying to see this one-woman play by English actress, writer, playwright, and director Phoebe Waller-Bridge well before its Australian debut this year, having come across the …
Two industry tycoons clash over an improbable combination of dairy and cheese to create a blasphemy of pastry at the New York Cake Festival, as told in Cheesecake the Musical. An Irish Cleopatra urges on the proletariat in the communist…
The Magic Pudding – The Opera returns to Melbourne just in time to commemorate 100th anniversary of a timeless fair dinkum Aussie classic fairy tale. Commissioned in 2013, composer Calvin Bowman, librettist Anna Goldsworthy, and director Cameron Menzies deliver an…
It is hard to argue the stature of Stephen Sondheim as the greatest composer and lyricist in American musical theatre. His romantic tour-de-force A Little Night Music had its Broadway debut in 1973, and has been a perennial choice for…
Back in November, at the launch of Summer Program, The Butterfly’s Club director Simone raved about cabaret royalty brother and sister Mikelangelo & Anushka. Not one to let an insider tip like this unheeded, I brought a plus one along…
Hir opens to a set that is a technicolour pigsty. A lounge and kitchen, stacks of dirty dishes, laundry strewn across the floor not unlike the garish knick knacks that clutter walls and surfaces. Centre stage is Arnold, a morose middle-aged…
Nassim is one of the plays that works best the less you know about it. In fact, mystery is baked into this play’s premise. It begins with a brief intro: a producer invites the guest actor on stage (each performance…
It’s challenging to label WE ARE LIGHTNING!. There is a bit of audience participation. It is part performance, part live music gig. There is a narrative arc of sorts, and a touch of whimsy. It is also part biographical, a…
Like any good thriller, The Commune immediately introduces tension and a hook. Stone, who now calls himself Joe after running away from the hippie commune is back for Brook’s funeral, his mother. No one will tell him how she died….
The ever charismatic and entertaining director Simone Pulga once again invited The Plus Ones to the The Butterfly Club’s curated summer 2017-18 program, with matching cocktails. One of our perennial favourites in the independent arts space, there is much to…