Monday, 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 07:03PMSaturday, September 27, 2014
The Melbourne Fringe is over the halfway mark and only has a week to go. So many shows have already come and gone, while others open this weekend and still don’t know what’s in …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:13PMVictorian Opera and Malthouse Theatre have created a new mainstage Australian opera. How exciting! And it’s an adaption of Tim Winton’s The Riders, a dream-fit for opera. This i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:34AMMonday, September 22, 2014
There are only 400-odd shows to choose from at the Melbourne Fringe. I’ve only seen 12 so far and these were some of my favourites that are still running this week. The YouTube Comment Orc…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:28PMFriday, September 12, 2014
This time next week, the 32nd Melbourne Fringe 2014 will be off and running with over 400 shows by over 5000 performers in over 150 venues. Running from 17 September to 5 October, it’s a s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMTuesday, September 9, 2014
Attic Erratic’s The City They Burned is a re-telling of the Genesis story of Lot and his family. I remember learning about godly Lot at my Anglican school: Lot is told by God and hi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:33AMSaturday, September 6, 2014
With an ambitious and successful Pozible fundraising campaign, an empty amazing space in the CBD and the determination to move a class exercise to a professional production, A lie of the mi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:02PMFriday, September 5, 2014
Q44 launched as a company earlier in the year and Theresa Rebeck’s 1992 play Spike Heels is their third production, this time in conjunction with Crazy Chair Productions and at Chape…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:14AMWednesday, September 3, 2014
The MTC’s production of Brendan Cowell’s The Sublime left me angry. So, I took some time to think, read and discuss. I’m still angry, and horrified at the arguments being…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:35AMSunday, August 24, 2014
Today’s performance of Master Class at fortyfive downstairs has sold out but if you book now, you might be able to get in before it finishes on Thursday. Terrance McNally’s pla…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:35AMThursday, August 21, 2014
Michelle Ryan danced professionally in Australia and overseas. Ten years ago, she was at the peak of her career and was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. She used to dance and had issues w…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:14AMMonday, August 18, 2014
Ten years ago I saw The Burlesque Hour in the Famous Spiegeltent on St Kilda Road. Moira Finucane, Azaria Universe and Umi Umiumare (and the Town Bikes); I was blown away and I still ha…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:37AMThursday, August 14, 2014
Satyagraha appropriately and magnificently concludes the first cycle of State Opera of South Australia’s Portrait Trilogy of operas by Philip Glass, soaking the soul and leaving you bl…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMI didn’t know if it were possible to see State Opera of South Australia’s Einstein on the beach without comparing it to the original Wilson-Glass-Childs production (which toure…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:24AMTuesday, August 5, 2014
The first cycle of Sate Opera of South Australia’s Philip Glass Trilogy opens tonight with Akhnaten at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Adelaide. Exclusive to Adelaide, it’s the first time the…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:38AMThursday, July 31, 2014
The MUST (Monash Uni Student Theatre) Container Festival runs from 1 to 16 August night at Monash University in Clayton. Following the success of the inaugural 2013 festival, the a multi-ven…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:50AMThursday, July 24, 2014
Among walls of tape-sealed cardboard boxes stands a middle-aged man in a suit. He has a beard, an accent and looks like he’s going to sweat a lot. And he might be mad and/or mad as he&…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:26AMWednesday, July 23, 2014
David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross is many things. It won Mamet the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama because it captured a time, place and attitude so remarkably. He re-wrote it as an ac…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:51AMMonday, July 21, 2014
After the success of their Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine created Into the Woods (1986), which beat Phantom of the Opera at the Tonys and firm…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:51AMWednesday, July 16, 2014
Melbourne is hosting the 20th International AIDS Conference on 20–25 July. Alongside the conference is a cultural program, including The Death of Kings with has a short run until 19 J…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:40AMSaturday, July 12, 2014
NEON’s Twin is the first of Arthur’s The Myth Project series that’s about exploring the Australian psyche and the myths it creates. Exploding in a shiny-streamer world …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:56PMFriday, July 11, 2014
St Michael’s Grammar School is next door to the Red Stitch theatre and when the school approached the theatre company to collaborate on a production, it was impossible to say no. Worki…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00AMFriday, July 4, 2014
In 1985 the first English production of Boublil and Schonberg’s musical Les Misérables opened in London. That original production has moved theatres a couple of times, but it’…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00AMFriday, June 27, 2014
“We are young Heartache to heartache we stand” If you’re now singing and frightened that you remember those dance moves but can’t remember how to unlock your phone,…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:45PMFriday, June 20, 2014
It’s impossible not to love a night in the heated Circus Oz tent, and if seeing them in winter in Melbourne with a bag of hot doughnuts isn’t a tradition for your family and frie…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:10PMWednesday, June 18, 2014
See Grounded for Kate Cole’s performance or for the writing or to be reminded how theatre can creep into your heart with a mixture of hurt and happiness that makes you feel a little …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:58AMMonday, June 16, 2014
Angus Cerini scares me. In a good way. In a way that I know his work is likely to disturb and confront me and make me want a glass of wine and some alone time after a show. His company, Doub…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:46AMThis production of The King and I was first seen in 1991 in Adelaide. It toured Australia and found its way to New York in 1996, where it won some Tonys, and to London in 2000. It was a lavi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:08AMSunday, June 1, 2014
The second NEON Festival of Independent Theatre opens with the dazzling high-camp, glitter-bright, subversion of Stephen Nicolazzo’s Little Ones Theatre. Dangerous Liaisons is a 198…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:29AMThursday, May 29, 2014
I’ve seen a lot of circus and a lot of contemporary dance, but I’ve never seen anything like Circa’s S. Premiered at the Brisbane Festival in 2012, S has toured Australi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:03AMFriday, May 23, 2014
Overwrought and underwhelming, the MTC’s Ghosts is as haunting as the Luna Park ghost train, but not as fun. The 1880s critics generally despised Henrik Ibsen’s play for being …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:37PM 
