My Fair Lady is a beautiful spectacle with delicious costumes, exquisite sets, and amazing actors who bring the stage adaption of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion to vivid life. It is the sixtieth anniversary of the musical, first performed on Broadway…
Playwright and author Katy Warner has become quite a force in the Australian theatre seen since her 2013 breakout year, winning a Best Emerging Writer award at Melbourne Fringe, and collecting further accolades since. Her new work ‘Spencer’ is another…
I was still trying to wrap my head around Away as I exited the Malthouse Theatre. The Australian classic doesn’t provide easy answers, but it gives audience members plenty to think about. The play takes place in the summer of…
A powerhouse performance of verbal dexterity and high energy saw independent stalwarts Q44 Theatre punch out David Rabe’s powerful 1985 play, Hurlyburly. About a group of four men, casting agents in LA, this play takes us into the soul-destroying miasma…
‘Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome!’ The musical Cabaret brings a taste of Berlin to Melbourne. First produced on Broadway in 1966 and set in Germany on the eve of the Nazi party’s rise to power, the show’s themes still reverberate in today’s…
I was really looking forward to seeing the Australian premiere of Gardner McKay’s Toyer. I have been in a crime/suspense reading frenzy of late, and I was hoping that this would take it up a notch. I have also (ashamedly)…
‘Ménage à Trois‘ was my first experience of vaudeville cabaret in Melbourne and it will not be my last. Performed at the extravagant yet intimate Speakeasy HQ on Flinders Street, I felt like I was becoming part of the set for the…
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…
Kate Mulvaney gives us a Richard unlike any seen before in the world in Bell Shakespeare’s Richard III. (And that’s not just because it’s a woman playing a man.) In a marathon effort of physical and psychological dexterity, including a…
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…