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…
Presented by Palace Cinemas, the Cine Latino Film Festival is back once again to showcase the sights and sounds emerging from Latin America. Running from 13-28 November in Melbourne, the Festival will feature 26 films including a spotlight on new…
A play about the first female students at my old alma mater, The University Of Melbourne, and one of Australia’s first female graduates of an Australian university, Ida grabbed my attention for two reasons. As a former student who found…
In West Australian theatre company Barking Ghecko Theatre’s stage adaptation of Australian author Gabrielle Wang’s award-winning 2009 novel, A Ghost In My Suitcase, the set, lighting, props and masterly execution by the actors tells lots of this engaging coming-of age-story…
Have you heard the news? The Famous Spiegeltent is doing a 3-week spring season in St Kilda’s Luna Park! These two historic icons are combining for your entertainment. If the Opening Party is anything to go on, this season is…
Queensland Ballet came to town with a bejewelled showcase of superb choreography, exquisite concept development, quality execution, and superlative costumes and sets in a reprisal of their acclaimed 2016 co-production with Royal New Zealand Ballet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The show had…
Science and art are colliding like never before. Whereas once seen as distinct and separate disciplines, they are now forming a symbiotic alliance and generating immense creative possibilities for us to enjoy. Like all good trends, this is popping up…
Fringe performances have been known to experiment with interesting spaces as part of creating quirky atmospheres. Some have been set in car parks, some in swimming pools, and some even use the city blocks of Melbourne as a roving setting….
100 years of war. Many decades of suppression. The Australian women medicos we never knew across a century of war come vividly to life in Carolyn Bock and Helen Hopkin’s superb writing presenting their lives in The Shift Theatre’s Hallowed…
You won’t see this punchline coming Sometimes, you’ll be so enthralled by a movie while watching it, you won’t notice how odd it was until the lights come up, the screen dims and you make your way out of the…