Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Will Hannagan, the Prince of Pop Song Pastiche, returns to The Butterfly Club with Affluenza with a brand new offering for Midsumma Festival 2015. With a pantomimic “Swoosh!” we are tran…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:45PMCirque Du Soleil’s latest spectacular, TOTEM, traces the story of human life from its primordial roots through to our never-ending quest to reach new heights. It’s written and directed b…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:44PMMonday, January 26, 2015
Agent Cleave is a very sexy glam-punk-pirate/bondage-slave/film-noir-private-dick/femme-fatale/mermaid/Spanish-Jesus in Show Stopper, returned to Melbourne for a limited run at Howler, as pa…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:23AMSaturday, January 24, 2015
Bagabus Inc are Hannah Malarski and Jack Richardson. They brought the delightfully dark Bushpig to the Melbourne Fringe in 2013 and are back for Midsumma with The Jacobeans, an equally da…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:59AMThursday, January 22, 2015
Camille O’Sullivan knows that if she wants to move to Melbourne, she’ll have adoring fans and endless friends eager to see her do anything, meow on the streets with her and invit…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:18PMTuesday, January 20, 2015
Strictly Ballroom began when NIDA student Baz Luhrmann led a student-devised piece in 1984. This production went on to play at the Czechoslovakian World Youth Drama Festival in 1986 and, wi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:06PMSaturday, January 17, 2015
Softly pouting while walking into breezes started as a MUST (Monash Uni Student Theatre) show that was so popular that it needed to be seen by more people and found its way to La Mama for M…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:11AMFriday, January 9, 2015
I saw Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree at the 2008 Melbourne Festival. It assured me that I’d see anything he created and I Malvolio has confirmed my commitment. Crouch is from Brig…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:16AMTuesday, December 16, 2014
I wish that I could tell you that I loved Rob Marshall’s big screen adaptation of my favourite Stephen Sondheim show. I wish I could tell you that Marshall found a way to adapt this large …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:09PMMonday, November 24, 2014
Opera Australia’s Don Pasquale is alive and joyous. Without dismissing a note of Gaetamo Donizetti’s opera, everyone on the stage and in the pit finds that little bit of extr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:19PMThursday, November 20, 2014
Last week, Melbourne’s two mainstage companies opened shows by Melbourne writers. Both directed by Melbourne directors and featured Melbourne performers and creators. Both were also se…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:48PMAs Pennsylvania Avenue opened at the MTC, I know I wasn’t alone as I wondered why. But they’ve just announced extra performances, so I think we know the answer. Meanwhile, a c…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:45PMWednesday, November 12, 2014
I wasn’t in Melbourne when the Keene/Taylor project was the darling of this city’s independent theatre scene (1997–2002), so it’s a joy to see Mary Lou Jelbart’s f…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:02AMSunday, November 9, 2014
I’m still having trouble believing that 1994’s Passion is a Sondheim–Lapine creation, let alone that it won a small pile of Tony Awards. As it’s so rarely performed, I…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:22PMFriday, October 24, 2014
“If you liked that show, I’m going to push you under a tram.” It could only be said in Melbourne, at an arts festival. It was said to me at the end of When the mountain ch…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:09AMMonday, October 20, 2014
Melbourne had the first look at Matthew Lee Robinson’s musical Happy People on the weekend. Its first workshop performance was in Melbourne in 2010 and since then Robinson, a WAPPA g…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:32AMSunday, October 19, 2014
Kate Fryer is a co-founder of independent acrobatic aerial theatre company Dislocate. Their Melbourne Festival show, If These Walls Could Talk, is another world premiere for the festival…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMSaturday, October 18, 2014
The experience of watching Circa continues to leave me a babbling mess of words that don’t come near to describing how they make me feel. Opus, which was co-comissioned by the Melbourn…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:30AMThursday, October 16, 2014
Roslyn Oades new work, Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday is already a must-see see of this festival. Developed by Malthouse and the Melbourne Festival, it’s based on interviews w…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:02PMWednesday, October 15, 2014
My Lovers’ Bones is another premiere Australian work developed for and supported by the Melbourne Festival. Created by independent company Brown Cab Productions, it’s a fascinat…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:40PMSheridan Harbridge is performing in Big hART’s Hipbone Sticking Out. The work’s a culmination of three years of collaboration with between the company and the community of Roeb…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:53PMMikelangelo isn’t from Melbourne and spends a lot of time travelling the world, but – like many of us – he fell in hopeless love with this city and made it his home. Last night, su…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:56AMTuesday, October 14, 2014
Melbourne Festival, the Brisbane Festival and Melbourne Theatre Company have coordinated to support the creation of Complexity of Belonging. It’s the type of work that international …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:03AMSunday, October 12, 2014
So, there’s a Japanese samurai going all Noh, a Pink Power Ranger, the offspring triplets of a Telly Tubby and the Michelin Man, a bird (that I called Dick Face), and an inflatable st…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:54PMSaturday, October 11, 2014
Have I No Mouth is extraordinary theatre. I was on the verge of tears for most of it, but it took me somewhere beautiful. Co-writers and directors Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keenan are and co-…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:45PMWithin this year’s Melbourne Festival is a program of circus curated by Andrew Bleby from Melbourne’s NICA (National Institute of Circus Arts). Festival audiences can enjoy wor…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:38AMTuesday, October 7, 2014
In 2006, Once was a tiny indie movie that went on to win an Oscar for best song and became a Broadway musical that won a pile of Tonys, including Best Musical, a Grammy for Best Musical Th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:06AMMonday, October 6, 2014
It’s highly unlikely I’ll ever hear all George Frideric Handel’s extraordinary output of more than 40 operas in performance, especially given that it’s taken Rodelinda almost…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:48PMFriday, October 3, 2014
It’s the last weekend of the Melbourne Fringe; it’s time to go hard and see as much as you can because when you wake up on Monday, it’ll all be over. And it’ll be tim…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:55AMMonday, September 29, 2014
New Melbourne company Ghost Light have made a loud and proud declaration by debuting with the infamous flop Carrie: The Musical. And given that we haven’t seen a production of it in …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:03PM 
