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….
Gillian English is bold, brassy and will find out a coward or patsy in seconds with her bullet-stare in her stand up show A Bitter Shrew. The successful Canadian comedian unleashes her killer lines like a tornado. Dating, the female…
We’re big supporters of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at The Plus Ones. The team continuously brings fresh, engaging content to Melburnian audiences and keeps our reputation as a cultural hub strong. In one of its first movie and symphony combinations of the…