430 stories by "Anne-Marie Peard"
My Lovers’ Bones is another premiere Australian work developed for and supported by the Melbourne Festival. Created by independent company Brown Cab Productions, it’s a fascin…
Sheridan Harbridge is performing in Big hART’s Hipbone Sticking Out. The work’s a culmination of three years of collaboration with between the company and the community of …
Mikelangelo isn’t from Melbourne and spends a lot of time travelling the world, but " like many of us " he fell in hopeless love with this city and made it his home. Last night, surrou…
Melbourne Festival, the Brisbane Festival and Melbourne Theatre Company have coordinated to support the creation of Complexity of Belonging. It’s the type of work that internatio…
So, there’s a Japanese samurai going all Noh, a Pink Power Ranger, the offspring triplets of a Telly Tubby and the Michelin Man, a bird (that I called Dick Face), and an inflatable …
Have I No Mouth is extraordinary theatre. I was on the verge of tears for most of it, but it took me somewhere beautiful. Co-writers and directors Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keenan are and c…
Within this year’s Melbourne Festival is a program of circus curated by Andrew Bleby from Melbourne’s NICA (National Institute of Circus Arts). Festival audiences can enjoyÂ�…
In 2006, Once was a tiny indie movie that went on to win an Oscar for best song and became a Broadway musical that won a pile of Tonys, including Best Musical, a Grammy for Best Musica…
It's highly unlikely I’ll ever hear all George Frideric Handel’s extraordinary output of more than 40 operas in performance, especially given that it's taken Rodelinda almost 300…
It’s the last weekend of the Melbourne Fringe; it’s time to go hard and see as much as you can because when you wake up on Monday, it’ll all be over. And it’ll be tim…
New Melbourne company Ghost Light have made a loud and proud declaration by debuting with the infamous flop Carrie: The Musical. And given that we haven’t seen a production of it…
The Melbourne Fringe is over the halfway mark and only has a week to go. So many shows have already come and gone, while others open this weekend and still don’t know what’s i…
Victorian Opera and Malthouse Theatre have created a new mainstage Australian opera. How exciting! And it’s an adaption of Tim Winton’s The Riders, a dream-fit for opera. This…
There are only 400-odd shows to choose from at the Melbourne Fringe. I've only seen 12 so far and these were some of my favourites that are still running this week. The YouTube Comment Orche…
This time next week, the 32nd Melbourne Fringe 2014 will be off and running with over 400 shows by over 5000 performers in over 150 venues. Running from 17 September to 5 October, it's a sma…
Attic Erratic’s The City They Burned is a re-telling of the Genesis story of Lot and his family. I remember learning about godly Lot at my Anglican school: Lot is told by God …
With an ambitious and successful Pozible fundraising campaign, an empty amazing space in the CBD and the determination to move a class exercise to a professional production, A lie of the …
Q44 launched as a company earlier in the year and Theresa Rebeck’s 1992 play Spike Heels is their third production, this time in conjunction with Crazy Chair Productions and at C…
The MTC’s production of Brendan Cowell’s The Sublime left me angry. So, I took some time to think, read and discuss. I’m still angry, and horrified at the arguments b…
Today’s performance of Master Class at fortyfive downstairs has sold out but if you book now, you might be able to get in before it finishes on Thursday. Terrance McNally’s…
Michelle Ryan danced professionally in Australia and overseas. Ten years ago, she was at the peak of her career and was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. She used to dance and had issues…
Ten years ago I saw The Burlesque Hour in the Famous Spiegeltent on St Kilda Road. Moira Finucane, Azaria Universe and Umi Umiumare (and the Town Bikes); I was blown away and …
Satyagraha appropriately and magnificently concludes the first cycle of State Opera of South Australia’s Portrait Trilogy of operas by Philip Glass, soaking the soul and leaving you bl…
I didn’t know if it were possible to see State Opera of South Australia’s Einstein on the beach without comparing it to the original Wilson-Glass-Childs production (which t…
The first cycle of Sate Opera of South Australia's Philip Glass Trilogy opens tonight with Akhnaten at Her Majesty's Theatre in Adelaide. Exclusive to Adelaide, it's the first time the three…
