Australian-born composer and pianist Warren Wills was compelled to write Bowie & Mercury Rising following David Bowie’s death last year, aged 69. Freddie Mercury would have turned 70 that same year. This concert is a tribute to the two much…
Playwright and author Katy Warner has become quite a force in the Australian theatre seen since her 2013 breakout year, winning a Best Emerging Writer award at Melbourne Fringe, and collecting further accolades since. Her new work ‘Spencer’ is another…
Matt Harvey is a stand-up comedian. He also has a retail job that also involves fending-off children (he conspicuously evaded attempts to clarify exactly how he makes a living). Above all, he is white. Just look at his name –…
Cal Wilson is ready to spill her guts on stage for a paying audience — a wonderful premise. Cal was very excited at the lack of children in the front row, which provided the audience with just what tone to…
A flash of thrilling masculinity tied up in an age of terror wowed the opening night audience in famed UK choreographer Matthew Bourne, and New Adventures & Re:Bourne’s, reinvention of the literary classic, Lord Of The Flies. A world first,…
Could you ever imagine seeing Shakespearean comedy in a school yard? To get ‘thee’ down to Siteworks, Brunswick, for such a thing in The Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s recent production The Comedy of Errors was the thing to do. Once there, we…
Matt Harvey and Marty Atta have reached peak melbourne comedy festival – presenting a show that is part opportunity for stellar guest spots from talented performers, part live recording of the ‘Just for Funny’ comedy podcast. This show aims to…
A neon pink sign beckons from the end of a Melbourne city laneway. The building it adorns looks small and unassuming, and as I start to imagine the layout inside, words like intimate and cosy spring to mind. I couldn’t…
A few years ago, I accidentally stumbled upon the experimental, minimal-techno duo that is Kiasmos. Their music really stole my heart from the first beat and has been the soundtrack to some of my most incredible journeys (most recently –…
During his Q&A session after the showing of ‘David Stratton: A Cinematic Life’ at Carlton’s Nova Cinema, I asked David Stratton, its star and subject, if he had any advice for a budding film critic. He said that anyone who…