Monday, May 27, 2013
Oz Opera are heading away from the posh theatre for a four-month tour of Victorian primary schools. Oz Opera is the touring arm of Opera Australia and aims to bring great opera to all Austra…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMFriday, May 24, 2013
As it finally gets cold in Melbourne, it’s time to love wearing layers, slurp endless bowls of hot and sour soup and look forward to a night of hot doughnuts and the best circus in the wor…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:09PMThursday, May 23, 2013
Magnormos’s 2011 premiere of Flowerchildren: The Mamas and Papas Story sold out at Theatre Works, got rave reviews (here’s mine) and made it onto favourite and award’s lists. It’s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:11AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
By the guffaws at the opening night of One Man, Two Guvnors, it’s guaranteed to be a sold-out must-see. With a cast and script as tight as a mother-of-the-bride’s girdle, low-class Bri…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:55AMSunday, May 19, 2013
I’ve loved Nixon in China from the time I curiously listened to a highlights recording, and John Adams became one of my favourite contemporary composers at its opening chorus. Opera Vict…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:16AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
Melbourne playwright Jane Miller is the first in a new series of chats about writing and what it’s like to be a writer. Before the opening night of her new play, she chats with� Anne-Marie…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:11PMMonday, May 13, 2013
Oh my god Oh my god, you guys I liked Legally Blonde I was so surprised! I really didn’t think it was going to be my kind of show Oh My God! Honesty, no one thought that I was going to lik…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:42AMThursday, May 9, 2013
How I Learned to Drive won writer Paula Vogel the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1988. If you want to learn about American theatre, the list of Pulitzer winners is a fine place to start. This …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:00AMFriday, May 3, 2013
I’ll always see a new Joanna Murray-Smith play. She’s one of Melbourne’s most commercially successful playwrights and she writes terrific jokes about being middle class in Melbourne. H…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:35AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
When the techie has to start the applause at the end of a show, you know it wasn’t a good night. I missed the super supportive opening night of Red Stitch’s About Tommy, so saw it with …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:00PMSunday, April 28, 2013
I’d not heard of the Ward Theatre Company, but they sent me a snail mail invitation that had black butterflies on it, so I had to see them. If sending a cute invite was all it took me to s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:13AMFriday, April 26, 2013
It was back-to-back Verdi for me this week. Opera Australia are celebrating the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth by performing six of his 30 operas this year. Melbourne gets t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:09AMFriday, April 19, 2013
Who wouldn’t want to watch a sitcom about three magicians who live together and practice law? Somehow Alex, Luke and Vyom’s show gets cancelled, but as luck would have it, the morning TV…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00AMSong is described as theatre without actors and songs without singers. From Melbourne’s Ranters theatre, it’s an unexpected project from a company known for their exquisite writing and …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:44AMMonday, April 15, 2013
Hot Box. Karin’s got one. I’ve got one. So do you. It’s that slightly awkward place where we feel hot enough to blend in with the crowd. The first great thing about Hot Box is that…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:02AMSunday, April 14, 2013
Sondheim fans don’t need anyone to convince them to see a production of Assassins, and they are selling out fortyfivedownstairs every night to see new a company, Watch This, take aim and…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:39AMThursday, April 11, 2013
Slutmonster and Friends is a bit like Sesame Street doing porn with Annie Sprinkle, but so divinely filthy and wrong that it makes Avenue Q look like Disney on Ice and leaves most artis…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:39AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Action to the Word’s production of A Clockwork Orange has divided audiences and it’s already being declared genius or drivell. I thought it was horrorshow. If you have no connection to…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:36PMThursday, April 4, 2013
Lessons With Luis: Why didn’t someone tell me about these guys when they were at the Fringe last year? Never has awkward been so brilliant, and I dare any show to have me grinning so inane…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:30PMWednesday, April 3, 2013
My unexpected hit of MICF (so far) is Nicholas J Johnson’s Today Tonight, Tomorrow the World. It’s about his experience of being invited to appear on channel 7’s 6.30 pm muckhole Tod…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:51PMSunday, March 31, 2013
I’m not Josh Thomas’s demographic; he’s one of those performers who I knew about and have seen bits of, but wasn’t compelled to spend an hour with. This changed because I loved Plea…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:55PMSaturday, March 30, 2013
I love Ruby Wax. I love her for every Ruby Wax Meets interview, because she script edited Absolutely Fabulous (great writers need great script editors – and I love script editing), and…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:52AMMonday, March 25, 2013
MKA have to have a dud; it’s natural that their streak of you-remind-me-why-I-love-theatre shows ends eventually, but it isn’t with Group Show. Now in their third year, this company – …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:23AMFriday, March 22, 2013
Conversation Piece is the only show in the Dance Massive festival that I’ve managed to see and it left me wanting to talk and rave and see it again. Lucy Guerin’s work makes me understan…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:22AMSaturday, February 23, 2013
The instant Vika Bull sashayed onto the stage for the opening of At Last:The Etta James Story, she became Etta James. She walked the walk, talked the talk and immortalised Willie Dixon’s �…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00PMMonday, February 11, 2013
Silent was another very short-run show that was gone too quickly. But Melbourne’s loss is Perth’s gain, as it’s at the Perth Fringe World festival from 13 to 23 February. Ireland’s …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00PMIt may be impossible to not get caught up in the cast’s infectious enthusiasm for Hair. From the lollies and condoms that come with the program to the hippy greetings at the door, it’s …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:52AMTuesday, February 5, 2013
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the car, is terrific, and deserves her curtain call. She’s awesome and cost over a million dollars to make, but all that spit, polish and Turtle Wax can’t make h…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00PMThursday, January 31, 2013
The Other Place opens the MTC’s 2013 season and is sure to be a subscriber favourite. Twitter told me there were people in tears at last night’s opening and I’m believing Twitter, even…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:44PMMargie Fischer shares a brilliant response to cope with unwelcome charity phone calls: “They’re all dead”. But in her case, it’s true. When her mother died, Margie was the last membe…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:35AMMonday, January 28, 2013
Red Stitch’s first show for 2013 is 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog. It explores the relationship between a grandson who can’t face his life and a grandmother who struggles to remember hers and…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00PM 
