In a full house of school-age kids, Dream Puppets showcased their artful new production, a version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest as part of the Wheeler Kids literacy program at the Wheeler Centre. Founded in 1996, this company is highly experienced, touring extensively…
Tyler, high school star athlete of the Hoke’s Bluff Wildcats, has his biggest game ahead of him. The State finals against the Tuscaloosa Titans. If that isn’t pressure enough, he has to deal with an overbearing coach, love-troubles with his…
Melbourne Theatre Company’s newest play, Minnie and Liraz, features old ladies zipping about in mobility buggies. Bather-clad fistfights in poolside change rooms. Complaints about the daily menu, plus bitter fights over the past. Another Lally Katz gem, this quirky comedy…
The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, by Meg Miroshnik, is a unique and enchanting play. A misty haze looms over the dark and mysterious set of this new production by Boutique Theatre. The superbly directed production by Elizabeth Millington…
Melbourne Theatre Company’s Three Little Words plays to its audience demographic. On opening night the theatre was packed and the applause were lengthy for the world premiere of Joanna Murray-Smith’s new play. Murray-Smith is a Melbourne-based playwright and no stranger…
Take a peek behind the mask of France’s medieval heroine Joan of Arc with the Australian premiere of Joan. Co-creators of The Rabble, Kate Davis and Emma Valente, use aesthetics of black-and-white silent films to put Joan of Arc in…
I am one of the rare people who have not seen or read the horror classic Dracula; despite a love for all things scary and gruesome! My knowledge is limited to an awareness that Count Dracula was a vampire, and…
Presented at the Malthouse Theatre by The Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious on Stage Company, the play, Hilda and Freud: Collected Words, is based on Hilda “HD” Dolittle’s Tribute to Freud — her memoir of analysis — as well as…
This multi-award winning musical will warm your heart, set your feet tapping, and show you a marvel of dresses. It’s the story about women, fashion, love-gone-wrong, and being Australian. It’s Ladies In Black. Adapted from a 1993 novel by expatriate…
Rightly, The Play that Goes Wrong is the new Melbourne favourite. Never has a play gone so wrong, yet got it so right! The Play That Goes Wrong is a play by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields. They are all…