What happens when a sultry venue and some of Melbourne’s finest Burlesque performers collide? We found the answer at The Whoop Dee Doo Revue. Billed as a double feature, the early show features a live jazz band and classic mid-century…
Awkward Productions are delighted to bring their theatrical sensation Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story to Australia from February to March, in partnership with Goudie Events. Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story became an immediate cult hit with UK audiences…
My jaw is still somewhere on the floor of the magnificent Arts Centre Hamer Hall after witnessing Penn & Teller’s 50th anniversary show. Forget everything you think you know about magic tricks and Vegas headliners – this wasn’t your grandpa’s…
Opening night of Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen at Arts Centre Melbourne was electric, marking a dazzling Australian debut for this darkly comedic gem, which is part of the Midsumma Festival. This production promises a masterclass…
It’s not hard to feel a bit disillusioned by Christmas. After all, Australians use more than 150,000 km of wrapping paper during the festive season. That’s nearly enough paper to wrap around Earth’s equator four times! It’s also estimated that…
Praise be! Sister Act is in Australia! The divine musical comedy is loosely based on the 1992 film directed by Emile Ardolino and starring the fabulous Whoopi Goldberg about a singer who witnesses a murder and needs to be hidden…
Twenty years after Finucane & Smith’s Burlesque Hour was born in the laneways of Melbourne, the divas have returned to throw an all you can eat art party at Melbourne Fringe Festival. Taking over the magnificent Trades Hall Ballroom for…
Not one, but two, iconic American plays featuring complex leading roles for women are playing in Melbourne this winter. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf staring Kat Stewart opened to a standing ovation in the CBD. Whilst over at the Arts…
“Macbeth (An Undoing)” at the Malthouse Theatre turns the Bard’s classic tale of ambition, cunning and tragedy on it’s head, twisting the story into a fast-paced, modern reimagining with superb stage design. You’ve never seen the Bard’s play like this…
It feels good to be bad. That’s what my plus one and I learnt when we donned orange jumpsuits and entered our prison cell. No, we weren’t in trouble for breaking the law. Rather, we were getting into character as…