Escape from the dark nights of winter as you return to another age where the clink of champagne glasses and twinkle of the ivories was all that accompanied easy nights of witty repartee and elegant entertainment. Yes, it’s New Yorker…
It was hard to restrain my excitement since I heard Anya Anastasia back in Melbourne with a new show, ‘Rogue Romantic‘. My girlfriend, quietly suspicious that there was some was serious crushing on Anya going on, grudgingly accepted my explanations…
It seemed appropriate that as we took our seats for Jenny Wynter’s new show ‘Viking Mama‘, it was pouring rain outside. Having just left very Scandinavian-like weather, we were shown to our seats by one of three Valkyries, who for…
Alice Tovey should own the letter ‘S’. She needs to make a deal with Sesame Street because she is sassy, smart, sultry, and she has razor sharp wit. Catch her show, ‘Personal Messiah‘, while you can at the Melbourne Cabaret…
Are you fan of Meryl Streep? If so, then this is the show for you. The Melbourne Cabaret Festival is in town June 14—26th and Streeper fans (thank you IMDB for this term) are in for a treat. Alexandra Keddie’s show,…
While I’m very aware of my privileged life here in inner-city Melbourne, the daily struggle with FOMO (fear of missing out) experienced by Kendall and Tiffany from The Melbourne Cabaret Festival’s show #FirstWorldWhiteGirls hit a cord with me. I too…
Moving to Mars at the 2016 Melbourne Cabaret Festival is an exercise in imagination. The audience is informed that we are to buckle-up and prepare for takeoff. We are the select 1% picked to abandon Earth and embark on a one-way journey…
Amy G. is a virtuoso on roller-skates. Or just reckless. She runs around in sequins, something you should not do wearing skates. Does the splits and plays the ukulele. Performs magic tricks. Scams the audience out of their wine, teetering…
Things I love: Gin History Gin Music Comedy Gin Cabaret shows combining all of the above. The wondrous women behind Lady Sings It Better are back in Melbourne for the Cabaret Festival, premiering their new brainchild, ‘Mother’s Ruin‘. Maeve Marsden…
Songs on Film opens with a dapper gentleman, Joe Stilgoe, taking a seat at the piano on a darkened stage, and playing out the opening bars of Jaws. We barely had a few moments to chuckle at such an incongruous…