430 stories by "Anne-Marie Peard"
Actor April Albert has been working with the life of Hildegard Knef for several years. And while the story of a post-war German singer might suggest, even insist, on being cabaret " this ava…
I don’t know how gen-Y Melbourne chicks Dash & D’Bree, didn’t win Australia’s Got Talent. Clearly Australia isn’t ready for their amazingness, but they&#…
Seth Drury knows how it goes. Or at least he thinks he does. See, it doesn't quite go as he'd been told. is Seth's art therapy project, after taking romantic cues from Disney Princes " from …
Melbourne Fringe has only just kicked off and already I think I have a new favourite cabaret artist. Flanked by some very muscly dancers in some very big hats, Cougar Morrison is a vision of…
Dance of the Bee is an interspecies musical collaboration performed by three pianists, the vocalists of the Astra Choir and a live swarm of bees. The bees will be inside a transparent sculpt…
A Drone Opera is a multimedia performance featuring drones and their pilots, opera singers, a laser light design and moving images. With custom drones " unmanned aerial vehicles (UVAs) " des…
Detroit never says it’s about Detroit. It’s about suburbs where communities are falling apart and the hope of the hard-work way to an easy happy-ever-after is disintegrating i…
Following seasons in Adelaide and Canberra, Geordie Brookman's production of Harold Pinter's 1978 play Betrayal has opened at the MTC. Inspired by the writer's own relationships, it's a rema…
In a desolate concrete yard where the only hint of humanity is a prefab building on stilts, a naked young body is dumped on the ground. Malthouse Theatre’s Antigone starts with t…
Musician Kate McIntosh was born in New Zealand and lives in Brussels. Her new work, All Ears, runs at Arts House in North Melbourne from 3 to 6 September. Her live music is described as an "…
Separately and together, Nicola Gunn and David Woods makes a rare type of theatre that genuinely challenges ideas and opinions. In A Social Service at Malthouse Theatre, they find a li…
Confusion For Three is Melbourne-based dance artist Jo Lloyd's new work that runs at Arts House in North Melbourne 26 to 30 August. Since graduating from VCA, Lloyd has presented work at the…
When a show is cobbled together from songs by a particular band or composer (such as We Will Rock You and Tomfoolery, which feature the songs of Queen and Tom Lehrer respectively), the audie…
The Bleeding Tree won Angus Cereni the 2014 Griffin Award for New Australian Playwriting and its premiere production is running at Griffin’s Stables Theatre in Sydney. This is theat…
Beyond expectation and presented free of charge, an impressive display of music and performance by the Monash Academy Orchestra treated the audience at the Monash University’s Robert B…
Ahilan Ratnamohan is a soccer player and a theatre maker who creates physical performance inspired by by sport, film language and unorthadox foms.  In SDS1, opening at Arts House on 19…
The 2014 Melbourne Green Room Award"winning production of Master Class by Terrance McNally opens in Sydney at the Hayes Theatre on August 11, before returning to Melbourne's fortyfivedownsta…
The third MUST (Monash University Student Theatre) Container Festival runs at the Monash Clayton campus from 31 July to 15 August. Last year’s festival had over 350 performances and ev…
Ariel Dorfman wrote Death and the Maiden in 1990 on his return to Chile, after 17 years in exile, in the aftermath of Pinochet’s military dictatorship. The 1993 MTC product…
Sweeney Todd, Sondheim's infamous musical thriller, is brought to visceral reality at Arts Centre Melbourne, completing a highly successful trilogy of Sondheim productions by Victorian Opera…
The novella L’Amante Anglaise by Marguerite Duras was first published in 1967 and Duras adapted it for stage in 1968. The stage version is two interviews about a murder that was …
If you've ever wondered why anarchists don't write for television, this may be the answer. Inaugural Barry Award and Piece of Wood Award winning comedy act Miss Itchy invade the Butterfly Cl…
Dead Centre is a new piece by Tom Holloway that reflects on and adds a new dimension to the 2008 work Sea Wall by Simon Stephens. Both are solo short plays told from the hurt of …
In 2015 the Melbourne Cabaret Festival, now in its sixth year, elected as their  the chocolate-dipped strawberry as their new emblem; a humble yet iconic treat that, despite its modest si…
The Production Company was formed in Melbourne in 1999 by Jeanne Pratt AC. Still supported by individual and business sponsors, they present three short-run musicals a year with the ongoing …
