Friday, 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 07:37PMMelbourne-based writer and performer Peta Brady is also an outreach worker who knows how people fall through the cracks of society and are left to fend for themselves. She’s seen the v…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:04AMThursday, May 22, 2014
A jubilant gala of African culture, Cirque Mother Africa really does live up to its claim ‘Circus of the Senses’. Tanzanian director Winston Ruddle has brought together musicians and…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMTuesday, May 20, 2014
Victorian Opera’s much-anticipated La traviata is presented in association with Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini (the Pergolesi Spontini Foundataion) who run an opera house in Jesi, It…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:01AMMonday, May 19, 2014
A soulful feeling oozed through the crowd at the Athenaeum theatre as Bert LaBonte and Jude Perl took them on a journey through the life and music of soul genius Marvin Gaye. It was a nostal…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:30PMThursday, May 15, 2014
Last night, Opera Australia had some mighty shoes to fill. Some 20 years ago today, I was introduced to Bizet’s Carmen sitting in an ancient arena in summertime Verona. It was the quintess…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMSunday, May 11, 2014
Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s phenomenally successful Wicked opened on Broadway in 2003 and is still running. This production has won piles of awards, has been reproduced all…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:01PMThere’s the moment when you walk into a theatre and get the first look of the world you’re going to be playing in. And all fear of the play that Patrick White himself called R…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:40AMMonday, May 5, 2014
SEEThrough grasps some truths about the awkward bond of heterosexual men and was created with passion and honesty, but it isn’t ready for the stage. And with significant development s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:12PMThe storytelling in Wael Zuaiter: Unknown is exquisite. Compelling and original, it uncovers truth and doubt but focuses on a personal story, because people may not listen to opinion but t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:06AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
Last night Melbourne’s theatre artists filled the Comedy Theatre for the 31st Green Room Awards presentation. First awarded for 1983, the Green Room Awards celebrate and recognise exc…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:42AMSunday, April 27, 2014
Having toured the UK for a year to celebrate Rocky’s 40th birthday, the Australian-cast version have snapped on their fishnets in Melbourne. It was great when it all began. So I’…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:01PMThursday, April 24, 2014
With everyone having seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show film, how do you convince them to see another live production? Anne-Marie Peard asked its creator, Richard O’Brien, when he was Melb…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMSaturday, April 19, 2014
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival finishes tomorrow! Which means it’s your last chance to see all the shows you’ve been meaning to see all festival – and discover the…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:53AMTuesday, April 15, 2014
PuppetUp! and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival finish on Sunday. PuppetUp! is part tribute to the genius of Jim Henson (Sesame Street, The Muppets), part look at how his puppetry …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMOne night, one venue, one room. So much easier than trying to Tetris in shows all over town. And every show being shriekingly brilliant didn’t hurt; I don’t apologise for my over…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:22AMSaturday, April 12, 2014
I was 13 when I saw Men at Work at the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide. It was one of my first big concerts at that time when vinyl was all we knew and an illegal download was sitting in front…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:20AMThursday, April 10, 2014
Tim Key write shows about being a slut. I was a Tim Key virgin; shame on me! He started performing in about 2003, won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2009, was a MICF Barry nominee in 2103 and…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:03AMWednesday, April 9, 2014
Scott Gooding has been involved with more festivals than most of us have gone to. He hasn’t performed, much, for a while but is bringing the very successful Eric back to the Comedy Fes…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMMonday, April 7, 2014
Sunday night at MICF. Trades Hall, Swanston Hotel, the Forum and the Tuxedo Cat. I started with the awesome Em Rusciano, whose Catholic upbringing offered a couple jokes about going to hell,…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMLate night variety chat shows with guests from around the festival are a winning formula. Find a game that doesn’t alienate the audience, ask your friends performing around the festiva…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:25AMSunday, April 6, 2014
Simon Keck won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s prestigious Golden Gibbo last year for his powerhouse show Nob Happy Sock and returns this year with the vastly different…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMZoe Coombs Marr is known for her work with independent company Post; she’s also known as Dave. Dave’s gross and may well be a bit too close to some young stand ups in town. If y…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMThere’s no denying it, Ben McKenzie is not what society would call cool. In Ben McKenzie is Uncool he embraces his uncool labels and shows is all just how cool it is to be uncool! Ben …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:12AMSaturday, April 5, 2014
Puppet Up!: Uncensored is a must see show this festival. Straight from the most well known puppet workshop, this band of merry puppeteers and improvisers bring puppets to life in ways you…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:07PMEllen has moved out of Melbourne into a new apartment in Sydney: a city that she hates everything about. Complications arise when her father, who has been away for two years, arrives unannou…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00PMAs I sat down to write about Adrienne, Stella and Zoe, a fellow-writer posted this on Facebook: “A guy at work just said to me, ‘Not to be sexist but I don’t like female …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:29AMFriday, April 4, 2014
James Acaster is from the UK and was a nominee for the 2012 and 2103 Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award. His show’s called Lawnmower and he’d love the Chilean miners from the …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMWednesday, April 2, 2014
With so many venues in an easy dash of each other in the city, it’s too easy to see more than one show a night. In fact, with an info board, an info booth, info staff and performers with f…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:58AMTuesday, April 1, 2014
I’m no 6 year old but you would’ve had to be blind not to notice how much fun the kids were having at Three Silly Stories presented by Angus and Jessikah of The Flying Bookwork T…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:00AMMonday, March 31, 2014
Making a show that is deliberately cringe worthy is not as easy as the creators of Wolf Creek The Musical seem to think. They tick a lot of the boxes, but at the end of the show I walked o…
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