430 stories by "Anne-Marie Peard"
The MUST (Monash Uni Student Theatre) Container Festival runs from 1 to 16 August night at Monash University in Clayton. Following the success of the inaugural 2013 festival, the a multi-ven…
Among walls of tape-sealed cardboard boxes stands a middle-aged man in a suit. He has a beard, an accent and looks like he’s going to sweat a lot. And he might be mad and/or mad as he&…
David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross is many things. It won Mamet the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama because it captured a time, place and attitude so remarkably. He re-wrote it as a…
After the success of their Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine created Into the Woods (1986), which beat Phantom of the Opera at the To…
Melbourne is hosting the 20th International AIDS Conference on 20"25 July. Alongside the conference is a cultural program, including The Death of Kings with has a short run un…
NEON’s Twin is the first of Arthur’s The Myth Project series that’s about exploring the Australian psyche and the myths it creates. Exploding in a shiny-streame…
St Michael’s Grammar School is next door to the Red Stitch theatre and when the school approached the theatre company to collaborate on a production, it was impossible to say no. Worki…
In 1985 the first English production of Boublil and Schonberg’s musical  Les Misérables opened in London. That original production has moved theatres a couple of times, but it&#…
“We are young Heartache to heartache we stand” If you’re now singing and frightened that you remember those dance moves but can’t remember how to unlock your ph…
It’s impossible not to love a night in the heated Circus Oz tent, and if seeing them in winter in Melbourne with a bag of hot doughnuts isn’t a tradition for your family and frie…
See Grounded for Kate Cole’s performance or for the writing or to be reminded how theatre can creep into your heart with a mixture of hurt and happiness that makes you feel a lit…
Angus Cerini scares me. In a good way. In a way that I know his work is likely to disturb and confront me and make me want a glass of wine and some alone time after a show. His company, Doub…
This production of The King and I was first seen in 1991 in Adelaide. It toured Australia and found its way to New York in 1996, where it won some Tonys, and to London in 2000. It was a lavi…
The second NEON Festival of Independent Theatre opens with the dazzling high-camp, glitter-bright, subversion of Stephen Nicolazzo’s Little Ones Theatre. Dangerous Liaisons is…
I’ve seen a lot of circus and a lot of contemporary dance, but I’ve never seen anything like Circa’s S. Premiered at the Brisbane Festival in 2012, S has toured Au…
Overwrought and underwhelming, the MTC’s Ghosts is as haunting as the Luna Park ghost train, but not as fun. The 1880s critics generally despised Henrik Ibsen’s play for be…
Melbourne-based writer and performer Peta Brady is also an outreach worker who knows how people fall through the cracks of society and are left to fend for themselves. She’s seen the v…
A jubilant gala of African culture, Cirque Mother Africa really does live up to its claim 'Circus of the Senses’. Tanzanian director Winston Ruddle has brought together musicians and a…
Victorian Opera’s much-anticipated La traviata is presented in association with Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini (the Pergolesi Spontini Foundataion) who run an opera house in Je…
A soulful feeling oozed through the crowd at the Athenaeum theatre as Bert LaBonte and Jude Perl took them on a journey through the life and music of soul genius Marvin Gaye. It was a nostal…
Last night, Opera Australia had some mighty shoes to fill. Some 20 years ago today, I was introduced to Bizet's Carmen sitting in an ancient arena in summertime Verona. It was the quintessen…
Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s phenomenally successful Wicked opened on Broadway in 2003 and is still running. This production has won piles of awards, has been reproduced…
There’s the moment when you walk into a theatre and get the first look of the world you’re going to be playing in. And all fear of the play that Patrick White himself called R…
SEEThrough grasps some truths about the awkward bond of heterosexual men and was created with passion and honesty, but it isn’t ready for the stage. And with significant development…
The storytelling in Wael Zuaiter: Unknown is exquisite. Compelling and original, it uncovers truth and doubt but focuses on a personal story, because people may not listen to opinion b…
