430 stories by "Anne-Marie Peard"
Jane Miller completed Cuckoo as part of the Masters of Writing for Performance at VCA. Produced with the support of fortyfivedownstairs, it’s beautiful writing that lets ho…
The final opera in Victorian Opera's Stephen Sondheim trilogy opens next week with the much-anticipated Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Under the direction of Stuart Maunder,…
I am an unashamed fan of Lionel Bart's Oliver! The film captured my imagination when I was very young and, although I had nightmares about Bill Sykes, I learnt every word of every song and w…
Saltwater and Letters Home is a double bill of solo shows by 20-something artists who were born and brought up in Singapore and now live in Australia. Jamie Lewis and Joe Lui share …
Lois Ellis first directed Evelyn Krape in Female Parts in 1982. Written by Franca Rame and her theatre collaborator, co-activist and husband Dario Fo (who dedicated his Nobel Prize to …
Shit is the shit. The fourth show of the 2015 MTC Neon Festival of Independent Theatre screams louder and stronger than the women it’s about and inspires us to make our support for …
Apparently times are tough on the dating scene. The women of Ginger & Tonic and the men of Suade are here to tell us all about it in A Match Made in Harmony, a lively and entertaining sh…
In her own words, Ruth Wilkin has a lovely life. Her childhood was ordinary, she doesn't strip or get nude for a living, and she's not a member of a minority group. So rather than do what ma…
Now in its sixth year, the Melbourne Cabaret Festival is still struggling to become a well-known event on the city's arts calendar. I attended the initial festival in 2010 and was delighted …
As Melbourne rugs up for Winter Solstice, Hobart celebrates the last weekend of the Dark Mofo festival. Anne-Marie Peard had to come home to Melbourne, but there’s one more…
It's 41 years since Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show first broke out of the lab and started blazing a glittery trail of mischief across the planet Earth. Since then, it has overrun its ow…
It was cold in Hobart last night. The sun’s out today but tonight promises to be colder, darker and weirder as the third Dark Mofo festival opens and this gorgeous city celebrates art …
The MTC’s much-anticipated North by Northwest will be a sold-out hit. This re-telling of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 much-loved film is slick and fun and doesn’t detra…
What do a dorky high school band, two bagpipers, 50 gingham tablecloths, Bart Simpson, a watermelon, a Prince Albert piercing, and an ungodly amount of spaghetti alla chitarrahave in common?…
Ned (A New Australian Musical) opened on Friday night at the new Ulumbarra Theatre in Bendigo. The choice of opening show was inspired: a musical about a story that infuses Austr…
As You Like It is Bell Shakespeare's first offering this year and has already been through Sydney and Canberra on its way to us here in Melbourne. It's also John Bell's first Bell Shakespear…
I've heard of double-dating but this is ridiculous. Dave Warneke makes us feel like we're the most beautiful audience in the world for one very special night of passion and romance in Dave W…
1625. France. A young man named d'Artagnan feeds chickens on his family farm and wistfully pines for a different life, one of excitement, valour and duty as a member of the famed Musketeers …
The National Gallery of Victoria is next to Arts Centre Melbourne. At night, the gallery’s long grey brick walls share an Anzac story in a series of projections. It’s beautifu…
The winners of Melbourne’s 32nd Annual Green Room Awards were announced tonight at the Comedy Theatre. Cabaret Production Eurosmash: Die Roten Punkte Artiste Geraldine Quinn: All Out O…
The 32nd Annual Green Room Association announces the 2014 award winners at a ceremony at the Comedy Theatre tonight. Recognising outstanding achievements in Melbourne theatre, 60 awards deci…
The worst thing about the announcement Melbourne International Comedy Festival is that there isn’t enough time to see all the shows you’ve missed. But, you can give it a good go …
UK comic Stephen K Amos is a stalwart of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and always manages to pull a crowd. With stakes that high, it was a shame to see him a little off his A-g…
YouTube is only ten years old. Like Facebook and Twitter, it’s already hard to imagine life without them. And enough people have now grown up not knowing that opening your life and you…
As they may or may not say in the music halls, "Everybody loves puppets!" and apparently, as has been exceedingly demonstrated in recent years by the likes of Avenue Q, Henson Alternative's …
