Friday, February 14, 2014
Cock immediately demands attention and begs for jokes that are too easy. Yes, this Cock satisfies and I’d go for the ride again. Now let’s move on. First seen in 2009, the titl…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:36AMWednesday, February 12, 2014
Performer–composer–singer–writer Zulya Kamalova’s Evolution, Revolution and the Mail Order Bride is three stories about three women that explore how the suppression of the fem…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:51PMMonday, February 10, 2014
Red Stitch have opened the year with some of the best performances I’ve seen there. Out of the Water is by US writer Brook Berman. With parallels to The Odessy, with its journey hom…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:32AMSunday, February 9, 2014
Within a tiny white-washed room – reminiscent of a clinic – we are confronted with ‘B,’ a mysterious man approaching the age of 80, who discovers a story entitled The Madness of the …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:52AMMonday, February 3, 2014
A melodrama about female identity, ownership and social hierarchy, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant lays bare the shallow passions and prejudices of an elite social circle. The play is a p…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:26PMThursday, January 30, 2014
Right before the beginning of The Great Game, two spinster sisters find themselves isolated in rural Australia, far from their homeland of England, and must deal with the inevitable plateau …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:38AMMonday, January 27, 2014
Standing on Ceremony: the gay marriage plays is an American series of nine short plays about marriage. No one coming along to see it needs convincing about marriage equality, which leaves i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:05PMCreated and performed by Darren Vizer, No One Likes Me is about being different: growing up as a homosexual in a school system of intolerance, dealing with a family built on traditional gend…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:21AMDrawing from his fixation with the pop-music queen/goddess Madonna, performer and writer Wayne Tunks shares some of the messy, complex and joyous events of his past. Everything I know I lear…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:46AMTuesday, January 21, 2014
Performance artist Tim Miller is from LA, he lived in New York for a while and spent some recent time at Monash Uni here in Melbourne. He’s been performing and writing since the early…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:00AMThere’s only four more chances to see The Worst of Scottee at Theatre Works this week. Please take one of those chances because it’s a show that lets you happily laugh along at…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:37AMSunday, January 19, 2014
Director Glenn Elston and the Australian Shakespeare Company have been performing in gardens all over the country since 1987. Their first production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:14PMWe’re at the Abbotsfod Convent. It’s hot, it’s sticky and the thunder outside is rumbling in perfect time with the drama on stage. All in all, Third Reich Mommie couldn’t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:58PMWednesday, January 15, 2014
The Greyhound Hotel is air conditioned, dark and has a huge bar with cold beer. And it’s easy to park. As Melbourne is sweltering in the 40s, there’s not much more you need to kn…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:54PMTuesday, January 14, 2014
On the way to Big Bad Wolf, five-year-old Ella and I talked about what we thought it was going to be about. She thought there’d be huffing and puffing and little pigs, I thought there…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:18AMThursday, January 9, 2014
Thank you for being a friend is a loving tribute to the 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls performed with puppets. If you’re already singing the theme song and getting your box set off t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:56PMWhen I was 10, Grease was my word. I knew the film soundtrack album inside out before I saw the film (at the cinema), my school-friend group called ourselves the Pink Ladies and I still have…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:57PMMonday, November 25, 2013
Last year, 5 Pound Theatre transformed themselves into Australia’s only working repertory theatre for five weeks, when they presented five shows in five weeks with five actors and five…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:06PMOn Monday night, Götterdämmerung, the final and longest opera of the Melbourne Ring Cycle opened. The cycle is complete and there are two more complete cycles to run. The full cycles are …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMFriday, November 22, 2013
Seigfried, the third in the Melbourne Ring Cycle of operas opened on Friday night as the Ring Festival continues around the city with tours, exhibitions and don’t forget the Bugs Bunny…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMWednesday, November 20, 2013
Opera Australia’s The Ring Cycle continues with Die Walküre opening in Melbourne on Wednesday night. Here’s the first look at some images. This is the one that welcomes the fa…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:00PMTuesday, November 19, 2013
Back to Back Theatre are the superheroes of Melbourne theatre who leave us wanting to wear our undies on the outside, don a sexy cape and do something that leaves someone else feeling better…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:55PMMonday, November 18, 2013
After three years of preparation, on Monday night in Melbourne Opera Australia opened the biggest opera event seen in Australia with the Das Rheingold, the first of Wagner’s four-opera…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMWednesday, November 13, 2013
Last year, the Sisters Grimm put on a show in a backyard shed in Thornbury. They pushed the crap aside and brought in some op shop curtains and folding chairs. It was nigh on impossible to g…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:03PMMonday, November 4, 2013
If we were to choose the super hero of Melbourne theatre companies, Back to Back Theatre would have to get the cape and Lycra onsie as one of Australia’s most globally known and respected …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:00PMSunday, November 3, 2013
Miss Jugoslavia and The Barefoot Orchestra is a story of confusion, secrecy, bravery, escape and hope told through live and untamed Balkan jazz that’s led by the wildly wonderful Tania…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:29PMTuesday, October 29, 2013
The Melbourne Festival finished on the weekend, but it’s only two weeks until we can celebrate all that is grand and glorious about opera with the Melbourne Ring Festival opening on 15 Nov…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:36AMHere’s my list of things that are funnier than The Listies: ummm errr I’m thinking maybe …? Nup more of The Listies Matt Kelly and Richard Higgins are The Listies and they …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:02AMMonday, October 28, 2013
Over ten hours with the National Theater of Oklahoma may have ruined theatre for me. Ten hours wasn’t enough. The eventual plan is a 24-hour show, and if the next 14 hours are as joyfu…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMSunday, October 27, 2013
Urban Chamber – Beyond is young people from Melbourne’s northern and western suburbs telling their own stories in a combination of rap, chamber music and dance. The groups from Outer…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:49PMThursday, October 24, 2013
We’re here to tell you one of your Dreamtime stories and make it one of ours. Kamahi Djordon King’s Fool had me from those words. The Shadow King is the King Lear story re-…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:09AM 
