Love stories in Italy, yes please. The Life Like Company presents ‘The Light in the Piazza‘, a musical directed by the very talented Theresa Borg, now showing at the Arts Centre Melbourne. I was excited to see the musical — not…
Kylie on Stage at Arts Centre Melbourne features costumes, video snippets, and memorabilia from Kylie Minogue’s Disco in Dreams (1989) tour through to the Aphrodite (2011) tour. The performing arts collection once again brings to life some of the show…
Need a place for an arty conversation? The Arts Centre Melbourne bar is set up to be your pre, post (and possibly during) show chat. In appropriately-titled The Barre (dance pun!) you can both grab a drink and gander at art….
Il Ritorno blends the physical spectacle of circus and the majesty of opera in a 75-minute retelling of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. There can be no doubt about the brilliance of the Circa ensemble. They flawlessly demonstrate numerous…
The title does say a thousand words in this case as the incredible New York-based Shadowlands team takes you through ‘shadow lands’. It’s hard to describe exactly what you’re in for, think hand puppetry with a Phd meets the Three…
A wild rainy night on the Great Ocean Road. Harry franticly rushes into a nearby veterinary clinic with a bleeding animal wrapped in a sheet. He is met by Piper, an idealist American zoologist and her activist paramour and vet…
Tapestry: The Songs of Carole King was a well-curated homage to Carol King at the Playhouse Theatre at Arts Centre Melbourne. Vika Bull and Debra Byrne gave an intimate and personable performance covering covered not just the well-known hits such as ‘You’ve Got a Friend’…
What’s better than seeing one of the world’s best orchestras perform live? The same show accompanied with live circus performers. Welcome to Cirque de la Symphonie – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s (MSO) jaw dropping, elegant, and entertaining artistic fusion show. The…
Walk the rain-soaked streets of grey Melbourne over to a corner where dark desire and corrupt fallibility are set out for you in a passion play. When people referred to 1930s Hollywood creative James Cain as a crime writer, he…
The theatre was full of merry audience members for the opening night of ‘Straight White Men’ at Melbourne Theatre Company. MTC has some of my favourite programing in Melbourne and I always feel a little shiver of anticipation walking into…