The Perfume Garden
The Perfume Garden was first performed thirteen years ago at the Gasworks Theatre. It made a return in 2007 at The Athanaeum and now, it has been revamped for 2017 and is being performed at the wonderful Chapel off Chapel….
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‘Bowie and Mercury Rising’: a theatrical tribute to David and Freddie
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…
The Melbourne Cabaret Festival – guide to the best events
The Melbourne Cabaret Festival is returning this June for its eighth iteration (20 June-2 July 2017). After a stellar event last year, it has truly become one of the city’s major winter art events and a TPO favourite. It’s two…
‘The Screwtape Letters’ at Chapel off Chapel
If you have ever considered renouncing goodness and training to become a demon, The Screwtape Letters is a great place to start. Based on The Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis’s popular satire, it concerns the letters between an elder…
‘Reefer Madness: The Musical’ at Chapel Off Chapel
Eighty years ago, an unholy matrimony of Hollywood and a church group begat Reefer Madness, a morality tale dressed as a dramatic film. A dire warning to parents worldwide of the demonic perils of marijuana. It would have faded into…
Frank Ferrante plays in the hilarious show ‘An Evening with Groucho’
He’s back. From the post-Depression 1930s, the vaudeville stages of London, and the backlots of Hollywood. It’s the man with three eyebrows, in the tuxedo jacket and pin-striped pants, a fat cigar, and an ability to talk underwater. It’s Groucho…
First Date – The Musical
I never thought I would say this but… I have found a musical that I really love. Normally I walk out of musicals thinking, well that was nice if it wasn’t for all the unnecessary singing, but not this time….
‘Titanic: The Musical’ at Chapel Off Chapel
All aboard! Departing Prahran for the story-of- the-last-century! Step up for your front row view of disaster with ‘Titanic, The Musical‘. Winner of five Tony Awards, In The Heights Director James Cutler and StageArt bring this gem of a musical…
Melbourne Cabaret Festival: ‘To Wit – Funny Songs Thru the Ages’
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…
Melbourne Cabaret Festival: Moving to Mars
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…