Chloe Perrett shares her singleton tales in the entertaining SWEETie, playing at the Butterfly Club between 27 January and 1 February 2020 as part of the Midsumma Festival. From a naive 21-year-old meeting her first love at her local book…
Take a hit movie and combine it with the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and you have a recipe for success. School of Rock The Musical delivers on this promise, with an upbeat, entertaining and humorous production. It’s a simple…
If, like me, you are a fan of the ABC show Ross Kemp Extreme World, the stage show Ross Kemp Extreme Tales is a must-see. For seventeen years, this documentary has been bringing human interest stories from conflict zones to our…
A sensitive interrogation of Shakespeare’s famous play about a flawed hero’s trashed early love, Ophelia’s Inner Monologue, does not disappoint with its scrutiny of his lady’s view of the action. Written off in Shakespeare’s 1602 play in a questionable quickie-suicide,…
I missed Peter Singer’s discussion on ‘What Really Matters’ when it was last brought to Melbourne by the The chool of Life. I was not going to miss the opportunity again, and joined an equally enthusiastic audience at the Athenaeum…
‘Psychological illusions, mind-control and temporal distortions’. White Lies sounded like an intriguing show and having sold out at the Perth Fringe, it was no surprise that the opening night at the Melbourne Magic Festival was also a sell-out. This is…
An Evening with Jane Goodall, brought to Melbourne by Think Inc., brought Jane to the Melbourne Convention Centre to discuss her experience and views on the future of our planet. If there is one person qualified to answer the question…
Unfinished Romance was my first exposure to the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra. Held at the Melbourne Recital Centre, an acclaimed performance space, it promised to be a wonderful evening. On this occasion, the venue was the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, lined…
The Wheeler Centre has a reputation for bringing world class speakers to Melbourne and I was fortunate to be in the audience of one such speaker, UK philosopher A.C Grayling. Grayling is best known for his books What Is Good?, The God Argument and The Age of Genius. During this event, his…
I am one of the rare people who have not seen or read the horror classic Dracula; despite a love for all things scary and gruesome! My knowledge is limited to an awareness that Count Dracula was a vampire, and…