This July, The Wheeler Centre have been putting on some literary winter warmers at their home away from home at The Toff in Town, like Erotic Fan Fiction. Their latest show combined the work of composer and pianist Darrin Archer and…
Mention Docklands to most Melburnians and you will usually receive a reply that ‘nothing good happens in Docklands’ or something equally dismissive. Well, I think I have found something. Located in Victoria Harbour, which is the end of the line…
Menopause. The concept send shivers down my spine. Upon hearing the word I immediately think of my parents’ ongoing battle over the radiator and temperature control back home, not to mention my poor mother’s first ever serious encounter with anxiety. …
An evening with Alain de Botton on Love is always something that entertains, but who knew it would crush all your realities about romantic love? Presented by the School of Life at Melbourne Town Hall on 12 July 2016, let…
High school introduces many reluctant fifteen year olds to the world of Shakespeare who would rather be watching Bruce Willis movies. That however was not me. For one, I hate Bruce Willis, and two, I have always loved Shakespeare. Give…
What better way to end the week than with a journey to the stars and beyond at the SpaceUpAustralia unconference at the University of Melbourne. An unconference is more than a conference; it’s a place where the people attending get to…
The Gertrude Street Projection Festival is arriving just in time to lift spirits up from Melbourne’s dreary winter. Running from 15 – 24 July, the Gertrude Street Projection Festival is a ten-day program that transforms one of Melbourne’s hippest streets…
Well ladies, gentlemen, and all those in between, The Butterfly Club, that grand dame of Melbourne venues supporting emerging masterpieces, has yet again given a stage to the maestro Shanon Whitelock and his new cabaret collaboration. ‘Nigella – Love Bites‘ is absolutely…
Thanks for keeping art in the CBD interesting, fortyfivedownstairs. ‘Retro Futurismus, New World‘ opened this weekend and I’m still trying to figure out how to describe it. Anni and Maude Davey call their show a ‘post-apocalyptic after party.’ They smash…
All aboard! Departing Prahran for the story-of- the-last-century! Step up for your front row view of disaster with ‘Titanic, The Musical‘. Winner of five Tony Awards, In The Heights Director James Cutler and StageArt bring this gem of a musical…