Sunday, August 25, 2013
There's a time to think, and then there's a time to be carried away by performers gleefully making lots of noise. The combination of unorthodox music making and dance in Stomp '13 " an impec…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Proximity comes from the mind of Australian Dance Theatre's Garry Stewart, with choreography that’s developed with his dancers and created to work with the live video manipulation byÂ…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PM[SHARE]Friday, July 19, 2013
With an extensive international touring history and a haul of awards, Slava's Snowshow features clowning and mime in a series of vignettes. From goofy physical comedy to inventive imagery, t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:09AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2013
Aside from running the Globe Cafe in Prahran, Josh Levy's talents run to playing piano and writing songs. Using these skills in his show with singer and sometime violinist Fem Belling, Anoth…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2013
A couple years ago, Sydney-based Miriam Waks packed her backback and spent a year and a half travelling through ten countries. Her new show, Songs from the Open Road, offers tales of h…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:40PM[SHARE]Monday, July 1, 2013
Due to a disjointed story light on insight, Stormy Weather: The Lena Horne Project was often too breezy and fluffy; however, the music saved the show, as Lena Horne's songs were performed…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:10PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 29, 2013
Self-described "chanteuse and torch singer" Lady Rizo demands  attention. It's not just because of her glamourous ascent to the stage in a black gown and body glitter, it's  because…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PM[SHARE]Friday, June 21, 2013
In any given week, this town has a thousand stories. Amongst the dames and dopes, one night you sip from a coupe de champagne, another you take a knuckleduster to the kidney. On the promise …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 18, 2013
First performed at the MTC in 1977 and on countless school reading lists, David Williamson's The Club holds a particular notoriety in AFL-loving Australia as it gives a plausible imagining…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:23AM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2013
We're nearing the end of MICF for 2013. You have probably seen standup, maybe even some improvisational acts or musical comedy. If you want to round out the experience, I'm pretty confident …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:34AM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2013
With his band, Paul McDermott's MICF show is Paul Sings. It's an accurate title and the crowd were very appreciative of the music. Between songs there were some overlong stories on topics su…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 14, 2013
The Kransky Sisters are eldest Mourne, middle Eve and their younger half-sister Dawn. All were raised to be very proper, like the Queen. In their hometown of Esk in Queensland, the sisters p…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:58AM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2013
The corner milk bar, Ford vs Holden and quarter acre blocks: the suburbs. Mother June frantically worries about the cheese cubes for daughter Lula's surprise party, disinterested step-dad Ga…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 6, 2013
A some of you might have guessed from reading these reviews, I am indeed Satan. I loathe middle-of-the-road blandness, and love a bit of mischief. My job as dark lord incarnate means t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2013
I've had a number of laugh out loud moments at the ideas in Arj Barker's shows over the years. I've enjoyed the "Heavy Metal Heckle", his turn as a Guru, what speed-freaks did before there w…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30PM[SHARE]Monday, April 1, 2013
Like that assortment of sweets from my childhood, Dolly Mixtures by ventriloquist Nina Conti has a variety of colours and shapes, some enjoyed more than others.  Novel flavours mean…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 31, 2013
Alongside Paul McDermott and Richard Fidler, Tim Ferguson achieved international comedy rock star status in the 1980s and 90s in the Doug Anthony All Stars. In his MICF show Carry a Bi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PM[SHARE]If you've watched a Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala over the past few years, you might have enjoyed a seated Irishman singing a humorous song while accompanying himself on a small keyboard. H…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:24AM[SHARE]If you want enthusiasm in your comedy, you just can't go past Andrew McClelland. In his diverse recent offerings he's shown that he absolutely enjoys what he does, and this enjoyment is infe…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:12AM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2013
Casus is a company of four who perform circus tricks. Despite an eclectic soundtrack, we might call their wordless offering Knee Deep a minimalist traditional show " a range of skills …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:41AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 17, 2013
The Masters is the latest show by physical theatre company The Business. Pretty quickly it's clear that the company of 15 years standing are very good at what they do, and this family-friend…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:58PM[SHARE]Friday, February 15, 2013
There are times when an audience doesn't clap because they don't enjoy what they're seeing. Then there are times when we are too stunned to applaud. The latter applied often to The Dark P…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2013
From its program, Polecats aims to show how the discipline and artistry of pole dancing has "crossed over from the strip club", but I'm not convinced that it a sport that has moved "away …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2013
Big Al & The Centenarian are two one-act dark comedies that share an interest in the human desire for status. They also share actor Vincent Andriano on one of the most eye-catching p…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 2, 2013
In this preview performance of Hair: The Rock Musical the music was good and the performances were enthusiastic, but it was ruined by the sound. My annoyance at being unable to either dis…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 31, 2013
Fables tell us that we show our worth through courage. In our time, the courage demanded by coaches and fans in sporting contests overshadows other kinds, those with effects that can't be tr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 24, 2013
Once upon a time, a prince overcame a challenge to win the heart and hand of a beautiful princess. However, duty and love don't always go together. Take Prince Warwick, in the musical The Pr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Zounds! It is odd to watch a tale of high passions " the love of Romeo and Juliet concealed from their feuding families, Montague and Capulet  " and not be engaged. Despite this, The A…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:57PM[SHARE]Friday, January 18, 2013
In Kitsch in Synch, housewife Pollyfilla expresses the drag of inner longings in her lounge room through lip-synching to songs and dialog from films and TV. Lip-synching doesn't have the …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:48PM[SHARE] 
