If you’re hankering for a genuine yum cha experience look no further than Tim Ho Wan. This little Bourke Street gem ticks all the boxes for authentic, delicious, and good value yum cha. Plus, it’s got a Michelin Star! We were…
The Project‘s writer and busy comic-about-town, Michael Shafar, takes us on a whirlwind tour of his life and observations in the few years since he took up comedy as a career in his show Jewish-ish. He’s male, Jewish, and a lawyer. Despite…
Bodhi & Ride, Port Melbourne’s next level studio for spin-class enthusiasts, pitched its pop-up, early morning sesh as “Riding Naked at the Emerson Rooftop”, and I took it literally. I once watched a woman ride a bike around a Speigeltent…
Clara Cupcakes ‘The Worst’ is, in fact, the best. In the bowels of The Butterfly Club exists the best video game you’ll ever play, and all you have to do is press that START button. I never owned a gaming…
Primary school teaching veteran Ben Knight shatters Mum-and-Dad fairytales in The Parent/Teacher Interview. He looks like a man parents can trust. Tall, with his red hair and ready smile, he can also spell. The only thing they need fear is…
We have all at times wanted to strangle a member of our own family. Right? If so, then The Omission of the Coleman Family should prove to be somewhat cathartic. This production, presented by Metanoia Theatre, is in fact the…
ACT Like a Lady is a genuine and darling showcase of talented young ladies from Canberra. We arrived at the venue and if there was one thing you surely couldn’t deny, that was that The Basement Cafe provided a closeness to…
‘Dracula: Last Voyage of the Demeter’ based on a chapter of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which describes the ill-fated journey of the Demeter, the merchant ship which carried Dracula’s coffin from Bulgaria to England. In Bram Stoker’s book, this takes place…
A Welshman, a Scotsman and an Englishman walked into a theatre. It sounds like the start of a joke but, if the theatre is the beautiful Forum in Melbourne and the men are Lloyd Langford, Stuart Mitchell and Greg Burns,…
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival can be daunting. 550 shows, tons of talent, one month long, where do you start? We all, or maybe it’s just me, have a deep seated fear of being stuck in a cringe-worthy comedy show….