Gypsy punks, Brazillian brass, rainbow plastic pneumatic sculpture you can walk inside – WOMADelaide 2018 is set to wow us once again. This fantastic four-day festival (March 9-12) of Music, Arts and Dance serenades approximately 20,000 people per day and we…
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…
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical is the story of Carole King’s life and musical career. Peppered with joy, success, difficulties and heartache, this story draws the audience in to the recording industry world from the 1950s and 1960s. The…
From its spontaneous beginnings outside one of Melbourne’s most notorious bars, St Jeromes in 2005, to a festival that now spans three countries and multiple cities, it’s safe to say that St Jeromes Laneway Festival is nailing it. The festival…
Get on the saddle for a captivating romp through the Old West in Impro Melbourne‘s long-form improvised black comedy spectacle, ‘How the West Was Improvised’. The scenes develop organically with players adeptly crafting, responding — and when necessary savagely (and…
A calendar highlight at Melbourne Recital Centre is ‘Great Performers‘, its flagship recital series. The recital is a form designed for intimate listening to a soloist or a group of few, to become familiar with instrument or voice repertory. It is…
Ophelia isn’t the only one playing centrestage in Three Birds and Essential Theatres’ combined new dramatic exploration, Enter Ophelia. It’s woman as subject, writer, and performance maker that paces centrestage as well. And there’s no better character, or group of…
Sydney Road has a new local. She’s not your typical Brunswick hipster or Melbournista yuppie. Nosiree, she’s a down to earth, unpretentious, no bullshit type of gal – the place where normal people like to hang out and have normal…
What do Malcolm Gladwell and Chris Botti have in common? Gladwell famously wrote in his book Outliers that 10,000 hours of practise combined with aptitude is the key success. Gladwell specifically referenced musicians and he was surely talking about Chris…
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale…who could mistake those opening words and sounds of the theme song of that 1964-67 TV show you watched after school, laughing at the exploits of a bunch of first world fools…