The intimate stories of three young queer men are laid bare in playwright Jake Stewart’s newest offering, The Helendale Nude Footy Calendar, at Bluestone Church Arts Space for Midsumm…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:33PMGender-defying demi-drag divas Jonny Woo and Le Gateau Chocolat wage a dazzling assault on some of the best-loved staples of the musical theatre canon in A Night at the Musicals at Arts Cent…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:54PMThe Production Company’s DUSTY at the Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne, is a disappointingly narrow tribute to one of the most complex and influential female musical artists that Brit…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:28AMShakespeare’s beloved Dane is savagely exploded in Mark Wilson’s Anti-Hamlet, appearing at Theatre Works. The familiar warble of “Advance Australia Fair”, as well as abundant referen…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:08AMWriter Christine Croyden weaves a rich ornithological allegory in The World without Birds, the latest offering from Melbourne Writers’ Theatre, at the La Mama Courthouse. In this semi-auto…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:42AMIt’s the end of the world. The human race is running full steam towards its demise and the threat of being superseded by highly intelligent gelatinous zooplankton has never been more real …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:15PMAlice Tovey is a fierce operatic rock goddess. In her second coming since her hit debut Malice at last year’s festival, she returns to rain down enough fiery wrath to make even the most ve…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:55PMJuly 1981. Paris. On the eve of her wedding to Charles, Prince of Wales, a 19-year-old Lady Diana Spencer arrives at the home of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, to celebrate the last mor…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:14AMManhattan socialite Ms Cece Rockerfeller proudly makes her debut at the Butterfly Club, airing her intimates for the first time ever in Cece Rockefeller: Estate of Affairs. From the cosy com…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:25AMReuben Kaye, self-defined cabaret megastar, graces the Butterfly Club’s ‘upstairs basement’ with tender recollections of his creative and spiritual edification, from angsty adolescent …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:28AMA delightfully dorky musician (Brendan Maclean) unwittingly stumbles into a dazzling, golden orgy of bass and sequins (director Craig Ilott’s vision of a contemporary disco temple) and emb…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:58PMVic Theatre Company unpacks the battered plastic lunchbox of adolescence in their newest production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, playing at MTC’s Lawler Theatre. The 25th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:20AMIf you’ve ever wondered what you’d get if you took an Enid Blyton novel and pumped it full of really nasty hallucinogens, then wonder no more – Yeti’s Demon Dive Bar severs all moori…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:55AMMeow Meow, Australia’s wicked-witted Queen of Cabaret, dunks us deep into the underwater wonderland of her own magical mind in a feminist submersion of Hans Christian Anderson’s 1837 The…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:03PMBriefs, the Brisbane-based all-male burlesque extravaganza, returns to Melbourne to rock out with their jocks out once more at the Athenaeum Theatre. From the moment we enter the cosy gloom …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:46AMBRIEFS: The Second Coming is described as a “heart-stopping blend of cabaret burlesque, Australian machismo and punkish swagger”. This all-male burlesque began in the back warehouse spac…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:47PMNow in their 34th year, Melbourne Writers’ Theatre continue their mission to foster and showcase new and established Australian writing talent with The Melbourne Monologues at La Mama Cou…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMFollowing three years of touring ‘nude’ with her 2014 hit show Between The Cracks, veritable cabaret goddess Yana Alana (Sarah Ward) returns to the stage, liberated this time by her free…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:32PMThe Candy Topps, Stella, Fifi and Kitty, return after an extended absence to pleasure us once more with an evening of “aural and visual fervour” in Femme Fatale. With honey-sweet harmoni…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:17AMMelbourne-based company BRODASAYSTA (Patrick Considine, Ruby Hughes, Adam Ibrahim, Samuel Russo) create an exceptionally silly and viciously biting satire in Lonely Planet, a contemporary cu…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:09AMCanadian performer Blair Moro strikes a somewhat unsettling figure on stage – clad in a leather apron, clutching a blood-soaked rag, and assuring us, with the utmost charm and affability, …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:39AMGender is flipped, family bonds are tested, love is sought and relationships of all shapes and descriptions are forged in ARDEN Productions’ new reworking of one of William Shakespeare’s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:10AMAboutFace Productions invite us into the weird and whimsical world of The Thurman Family Ensemble to witness the backstage goings-on of their latest travelling variety spectacular. Performin…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:44AMIt is all too easy for the perception of artists who inhabit primarily visual disciplines to extend no further than the physical entity that they present on stage – a vision of the drag qu…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:19AMNeo Radio delivers a slick and exceptionally silly film-noir-detective-thriller-jukebox-musical-romp in La Petite Mort. With flavours of classic 1940s noir by way of The Goon Show, the whole…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:56AMThis is no ‘greatest hits’ tribute show. Sophisticated Lady strips away the gloss of idolism from three of the most influential and iconic figures of jazz to examine the humanity beneath…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:56PMI’m still waiting for Will Hannagan to put out a gosh darn pop album already. In lieu of this, he returns to Fringe with POP|PRESS, a brand new musical extravaganza. When expatriate A…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:55AMRob Lloyd recounts the tale of his first ever great love in The Heart Awakens, a touching and poignant exploration of relationships and the power of pop culture. Lloyd is endearingly dorky a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:40AMElena Gabrielle is exceedingly vulgar, covered in mud, and not much else, as she presents an evening in the company of the filthiest cabaret deviants of the Fringe. Supported each night by a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:35PMThe streets of rural suburbia howl and packs of wild creatures are on the prowl for sex and revenge in Adam J A Cass’s Bock Kills Her Father. The script hums with a truly fearful and viole…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:28PMCabaret pocket-rocket Elena Gabrielle takes us on a romantic odyssey through the wonders and woes of dating every sign of the zodiac in Sure Sign of Love. Taking a light-hearted prod at the …
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