Sunday, January 22, 2017
New writing for theatre often goes through a lengthy development process before an audience sees it on stage. Lonely Company’s two-night Beta Fest: Theatre in Various States of Undress is …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:45AMFriday, January 20, 2017
A tycoon moves to Washington DC to use his money to influence politics and politicians. When the Melbourne Theatre Company announced they were staging Garson Kanin’s 1940s polit…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:23PMMonday, November 21, 2016
Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya explores the boredom of a few wasted lives playing out on a Russian country estate. It is variously described as a comedy or a tragedy, which heavily depends on the p…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:08AMSunday, November 20, 2016
Ginny (Bessie Holland) is growing up in Chitole, a small town where the locals – both Indigenous and non-Indigenous – don’t accept her as Aboriginal because of her light skin. …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:31PMSaturday, October 1, 2016
Catherine and Irene have been friends for a long time, but after Catherine’s experience of domestic violence, the two friends begin to drift apart. Deafferent’s production of Black is th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:42PMWednesday, September 28, 2016
Menage begins, as most trysts might, with a chance meeting, a text message, and a phone call and it continues on to an intimate encounter in a bedroom. An audience of two hears intimate stor…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:18AMMonday, September 26, 2016
“Hooray and up she rises, Hooray and up she rises” chant the working women of Rome to celebrate Caesar’s victory and her return to the capital. Soon, though, Caesar is warned to “Bew…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:40AMSunday, September 25, 2016
Who is the best James Bond? It’s a question that has plagued us since the time someone-other-than-Sean Connery played the role. Shaken is pitched as Baritones Belting Bond and the songs ar…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:34PMNot Another Indie Cabaret is another indie cabaret, but Jessamae St James knows that and plays with your expectations. Jessamae describes herself as low-level clusterfuck, who has trouble wi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:45PMYou’re outside a bar in North Melbourne. It’s cold, you’re wearing a scarf and a stranger gives you a pair of headphones to put on. There’s a woman at a tram stop and you’re told t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:45PMFriday, September 23, 2016
Bron Batten has dated men all over the world. Now that she’s tried online dating, which she describes as “squeezing the rancid bowels of the internet”, she’s decided to try onstage d…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:13PMSunday, September 18, 2016
A theatre company is putting on a new play that sounds almost exactly like Hamlet, but does this play meet the needs of its shareholders? Is the play itself worth doing or can it also find a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:30PMSaturday, September 17, 2016
Struan Logan is a Scottish comedian who has spent a year in Australia performing stand up. His visa is about to run out. His visa is so close to running out, he might be kicked out of the co…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:45AMRemember high school parties? The Awkward Years wants you to remember the drinking, the pashing, the dancing, the flirting, the vomit and the most embarrassing thing you did as a teenager. T…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:03AMSaturday, August 27, 2016
After surviving a near-fatal fishing trip, three blokes are desperate to change their ways of life. But not too much. The Beast premiered in 2013, a commission by the Melbourne Theatre Compa…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30PMWednesday, July 27, 2016
Deborah’s husband has just retired and while he’s busy with his new found lease on life, Deb has discovered the love of a good book. Roger Hall’s 1999 play, The Book Club, is a show th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:34PMSaturday, July 23, 2016
It’s Christmas and Laura is visiting her grandmother; athough this year it doesn’t feel like Christmas – for either of them. Laura and Mummi stare at each other across the intimate tra…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:32PMWednesday, June 22, 2016
After discovering Alice Tovey’s Malice at last year’s Melbourne Fringe festival, I was really excited to see what she would come up with next. Malice was Alice belting out tunes with Ned…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:00PMTuesday, June 21, 2016
Sing On Through Tomorrow is a collection of composer/performer Matthew Lee Robinson’s earliest work; songs that first appeared in his cabaret shows, along with selections from his first fu…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:33PMMonday, June 13, 2016
Catherine is living the in shadow of her father, Robert, a mathematical genius, who has recently died. David Auburn’s Proof is an exploration of her grief, his mental illness and what Cath…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:07AMSunday, June 5, 2016
Songs for a New World is not quite a musical, but is more than a collection of songs. Composer Jason Robert Brown, best known for The Last Five Years, Parade and The Bridges of Madison Count…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:40PMSaturday, June 4, 2016
Los Angeles. 1930s. Dark suits. Platinum blondes. And a man who tells us he knows how to get away with murder and make a little money on the side. Insurance agent Walter Huff (Leon Ford) hea…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:31AMMonday, April 4, 2016
After performing pantsless in Asking For It, Adrienne Truscott is wrestling with the question “Am I a comedian (sorry, comedienne) or am I a performance artist?” Like Zoe Coombs M…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:57AM It’s Women’s Week on Channel 8 and you’re about to spend some time with the stars and guests of their morning television show Brunch. Good Morning Mofo is a collection of charac…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:48AMSunday, April 3, 2016
Dave (Zoe Coombs Marr) just wants to tell jokes, but after his last show, he got a lot of hate from feminists on Twitter. So this time around he’s going to do something that can’t offend…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:05AMMonday, March 28, 2016
In their twentieth anniversary year, Tripod is letting fate decide which songs they sing each night. It’s a nostalgia trip for performers and audience alike. It’s always a shock to the s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:05PMSunday, March 27, 2016
Jen Kirkman wants us to think she doesn’t know what she’s doing, but even in this preview of her show, she keeps the audience in the palm of her hand. Jen is a natural storyteller, who i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:26AM 
