430 stories by "Anne-Marie Peard"
I can't say enough wonderful about the MTC's Neon Festival of Independent Theatre. Five of Melbourne's most loved, most successful and most challenging independent companies were asked to cr…
Betty Burstall: 1926"2013 In 1967, Betty Burstall founded La Mama theatre in Carlton. It's difficult to even begin to imagine the development of Australian theatre and Australian theatre voi…
Grab a box of popcorn and dust off your diablo, because Circus Oz are back home in Melbourne and their 2013 show Cranked Up opens on Thursday. If you want to win a double pass to see t…
Oh King Kong! You gorgeous, sexy, magnificent beast. Your entrance may be the most spectacular thing ever seen on a live stage. Every time you're on, the audience is yours for the taking, as…
In Cape Town in 2006, actor Brett Goldin and designer Richard Bloom left a party and never got home. They were found naked, except for their socks, near a freeway; they had been robbed and s…
Carl Polke first joined the Circus Oz family in the 90s as a musician and he's back as the musical director for Cranked Up, which opens next week. And click here to be in the runnin…
If you work as an artist or in the arts industry in Melbourne, you'll probably qualify for an Arts Centre Melbourne Arts Industry Card. Launched earlier this year, this new initiative aims t…
In just over a week, Circus Oz hit the big top in Birrarung Marr with their new show Cranked Up. It's a bit like last year's sensational From the Ground Up, but with some new acts and all…
The closing concert of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival was given by jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, last seen here nearly a decade ago. The Mississippi-born singer responded to the l…
Tell your story, tell our story or tell a story that means so much to you that it doesn't matter whose it is. In Palace of the End, nice middle class, successful Canadian writer Judith Th…
It felt a little ironic walking into what was once a chapel to the rousing mix of Israeli and Arabic music, but perhaps it's a credit to our society. After all, Jeremie Bracka, human rights …
Red Stitch present the Australian premiere of Herding Cats by UK writer Lucinda Coxon. Opening this week, it's 2010-11 UK productions won the acclaim of critics and it was shortlisted for wr…
Bookings are now open for Victorian Opera's production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapins's Sunday in the Park with George. First produced in 1984, Sunday in the Park with George is an ima…
It's not long until Circus Oz put the big top up in Birrarung Marr for their annual home-town season. Last year's show was From the Ground Up. It travelled Australia, visited the Northern…
Palace at the End opens at Theatre Works next week. It's about the wars in Iraq and tells the stories of three people whose lives changed because of the wars. Private Lynndie England (played…
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…
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 world…
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 s…
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…
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 Vi…
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 …
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 like�…
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. Thi…
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. Her lat…
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 re…
