Monday, April 13, 2015
Dave Thornton’s Spit & Polish doesn’t need any elbow grease, despite what the name might suggest; it’s already a lively and entertaining little gem of a show with plenty of appeal.…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:45PMThe comedy double act is one where every laugh relies on the other person to make it work, so it’s no wonder the best are ones were one name can’t be said without the other. Tod…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:35AMSunday, April 12, 2015
As the lights dim (or rather as overhead fluorescents are gracelessly shut off), an atmosphere of abrasive Australiana is aptly set for the Doug Anthony All Stars to invade the main function…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:05PMHumans are going extinct. Or, at least, in the face of global warming, ongoing social and political tensions, and a rampant abundance of internet memes, the threat certainly seems very real.…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:58AMGilbert and Sullivan: words that evoke love, fear or a confusing mix of both. Late nineteenth century operetta may be fun to perform (I went with two friends who were also in our school prod…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:27AMThursday, April 9, 2015
Tom Ballard is warm and charming and a wonderfully witty narrator who takes us on a thoughtful and funny journey in Taxis & Rainbows & Hatred. The former Triple J host centres his sh…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:50AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
There’s much more to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival than stand-up, but there are seemingly endless stand-ups. This form of solo storytelling can be extraordinary as co…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:48PMMonday, April 6, 2015
With school stand-ups are dribbling out the same jokes we’ve heard for ever, there’s a generation of performers who are embracing everything about clowning and turning it into s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMLocal comedy queen and self-proclaimed “Fraggle Rock dominatrix” Lisa-Skye hosts an adults-only soiree to make the Mad Hatter blush, in Lisa-Skye’s Lovely Tea Party, at The Tuxedo Cat …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:32AMWednesday, April 1, 2015
Avenue Q is Trifle Theatre Company’s first show. It’s already sold out, so it sucks to be you if you didn’t book a ticket. There’s not much left to say when there ar…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:00AMTuesday, March 31, 2015
Imagine having a fabulous great-aunt who has led a fascinating, slightly wicked life, is a brilliant storyteller and happens to have a wonderful collection of books at her house. This is wha…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:59AMFriday, March 27, 2015
There’s a double page in the program for the MTC’s Endgame titled “explantion”. It’s about modernism, Absurdism and finding meaning in Samuel Beckett’s …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:03PMWednesday, March 25, 2015
The late William May told me that the idea for Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular came to him when he stopped his car to watch cranes working at Docklands at night. He saw dinos…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:34PMFriday, March 13, 2015
Don Reid’s Young & Jackson is a tribute play of sorts. It’s a testimonial to Melbourne during World War II, to the pub it’s named after, and to the play that follows (Codgers, also…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:55AMSunday, March 1, 2015
Sexercise could be a ripper of a show if it toned up and got rid of the flab. Sexercise is a new Australian musical. Yay. It’s opening in a great new theatre venue, the Alex Theatre …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:34AMFriday, February 27, 2015
“There’s gotta be something better than this.” I don’t think so. This time last year, new independent company Hayes Theatre took over an old 110-seat theatre in Potts…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:11AMThursday, February 26, 2015
What Rhymes with Cars & Girls was Tim (You Am I) Rodgers’s first solo album in 1999. Aidan Fennessy loved it so much that he wrote narrative to sit between the tracks and be tol…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:07AMTuesday, February 24, 2015
In 1996, Disney Theatrical announced it was making a musical of their popular animated hit The Lion King (1994). Eyes rolled with memories of Disney on Ice productions and the fear of anth…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:33AMMonday, February 23, 2015
In The Heights won the Best Musical Tony in 2008. Melbourne independent company StageArt presents the Australian premiere and it’s an absolute winner. It nails the tone of a show that…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:43AMFriday, February 20, 2015
Psychopomp & Seething begins by taking the audience on a ride in the La Mama Courthouse. It’s not a hold on and scream ride, but you do move and it ends in pure darkness. And it g…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:32AMTuesday, February 17, 2015
Opera at the magnificent sea-side Palais Theatre with the audience wearing 3D glasses! Victorian Opera are sure giving us a new look at Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. Close to his home…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:50PMMonday, February 16, 2015
The 2014 Victorian Green Room Award nominations have been released. The awards will be announced on Monday 20 April at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne. This is the 32nd annual ceremony an…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:12PMSaturday, February 14, 2015
It’s worth seeing Blak Cabaret to hang outside in the Malthouse forecourt, and it’s impossible not to love Kahmahi Djordon King in a frock. Conceived by Jason Yamiru, Blak Cab…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:01PMFriday, February 13, 2015
Daniel Tobias is almost unrecognisable as Otto Rot of the endlessly wonderful comedy duo band Die Roten Punkte. There’s no keytar and makeup in The Orchid & the Crow but there …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:44PMDennis Kelly’s cautionary morality fable of corporate greed, corruption and an insatiable hunger for power at any cost, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, is superbly executed in the…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:39PMTuesday, February 10, 2015
Simon Morrison-Baldwin pays loving homage to one of French history’s most overlooked personalities: diplomat, spy, courtier and decorated serviceman Charles-Geneviève-Louise-Auguste-Andr�…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:45PMSunday, February 8, 2015
Loving Repeating is a musical about writer, poet, novelist and librettist Gertrude Stein (1874–1946). With music by Stephen Flaherty (Seussical, Ragtime) and lyrics by Stein adapted by Fra…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:30PMAt least Jumpy is a play about 50-something women who have sex. There’s not that much written about the middle-aged years when women discover a new type of social invisibility, and a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:07AMSaturday, February 7, 2015
Phillip A Mayer’s Couples aims to shed light on marriage, commitment and love for four different couples attending a relationship therapy weekend at the fictional Paradise Valley Couples R…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:23PMFriday, February 6, 2015
Matthew Mitcham, the Australian diver who won an Olympic gold medal in Beijing in 2008 at the age of 20, is charming. You want to wrap him up in a great big hug and take him home to meet you…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:12PMThursday, February 5, 2015
Oscar Wilde’s farcical tale of societal pomp, mistaken identity and greedy muffin consumption is played out with particular aplomb as Citizen Theatre faithfully brings The Importance of B…
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