31 stories by "Jack Beeby"
The intimate stories of three young queer men are laid bare in playwright Jake Stewart’s newest offering, The Helendale Nude Footy Calendar, at Bluestone Church Arts Space for Midsu…
Gender-defying demi-drag divas Jonny Woo and Le Gateau Chocolat wage a dazzling assault on some of the best-loved staples of the musical theatre canon in A Night at the Musicals at Arts Cent…
The Production Company’s DUSTYÂ at the Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne, is a disappointingly narrow tribute to one of the most complex and influential female musical artists that Br…
Shakespeare's beloved Dane is savagely exploded in Mark Wilson's Anti-Hamlet, appearing at Theatre Works. The familiar warble of "Advance Australia Fair", as well as abundant references to f…
Writer Christine Croyden weaves a rich ornithological allegory in The World without Birds, the latest offering from Melbourne Writers' Theatre, at the La Mama Courthouse. In this semi-autobi…
It's the end of the world. The human race is running full steam towards its demise and the threat of being superseded by highly intelligent gelatinous zooplankton has never been more real " …
Alice Tovey is a fierce operatic rock goddess. In her second coming since her hit debut Malice at last year's festival, she returns to rain down enough fiery wrath to make even the most veng…
July 1981. Paris. On the eve of her wedding to Charles, Prince of Wales, a 19-year-old Lady Diana Spencer arrives at the home of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, to celebrate the last mor…
Manhattan socialite Ms Cece Rockerfeller proudly makes her debut at the Butterfly Club, airing her intimates for the first time ever in Cece Rockefeller: Estate of Affairs. From the cosy com…
Reuben Kaye, self-defined cabaret megastar, graces the Butterfly Club's 'upstairs basement' with tender recollections of his creative and spiritual edification, from angsty adolescent to 'ga…
A delightfully dorky musician (Brendan Maclean) unwittingly stumbles into a dazzling, golden orgy of bass and sequins (director Craig Ilott's vision of a contemporary disco temple) and embar…
Vic Theatre Company unpacks the battered plastic lunchbox of adolescence in their newest production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, playing at MTC's Lawler Theatre. The 25th A…
If you've ever wondered what you'd get if you took an Enid Blyton novel and pumped it full of really nasty hallucinogens, then wonder no more " Yeti's Demon Dive Bar severs all mooring to tr…
Meow Meow, Australia's wicked-witted Queen of Cabaret, dunks us deep into the underwater wonderland of her own magical mind in a feminist submersion of Hans Christian Anderson's 1837 The Lit…
Briefs, the Brisbane-based all-male burlesque extravaganza, returns to Melbourne to rock out with their jocks out once more at the Athenaeum Theatre. From the moment we enter the cosy gloom …
BRIEFS: The Second Coming is described as a "heart-stopping blend of cabaret burlesque, Australian machismo and punkish swagger". This all-male burlesque began in the back warehouse space of…
Now in their 34th year, Melbourne Writers' Theatre continue their mission to foster and showcase new and established Australian writing talent with The Melbourne Monologues at La Mama Cou…
Following three years of touring 'nude' with her 2014 hit show Between The Cracks, veritable cabaret goddess Yana Alana (Sarah Ward) returns to the stage, liberated this time by her freedom …
The Candy Topps, Stella, Fifi and Kitty, return after an extended absence to pleasure us once more with an evening of "aural and visual fervour" in Femme Fatale. With honey-sweet harmonies a…
Melbourne-based company BRODASAYSTA (Patrick Considine, Ruby Hughes, Adam Ibrahim, Samuel Russo) create an exceptionally silly and viciously biting satire in Lonely Planet, a contemporary cu…
Canadian performer Blair Moro strikes a somewhat unsettling figure on stage " clad in a leather apron, clutching a blood-soaked rag, and assuring us, with the utmost charm and affability, th…
Gender is flipped, family bonds are tested, love is sought and relationships of all shapes and descriptions are forged in ARDEN Productions' new reworking of one of William Shakespeare's mos…
AboutFace Productions invite us into the weird and whimsical world of The Thurman Family Ensemble to witness the backstage goings-on of their latest travelling variety spectacular. Performin…
It is all too easy for the perception of artists who inhabit primarily visual disciplines to extend no further than the physical entity that they present on stage " a vision of the drag quee…
Neo Radio delivers a slick and exceptionally silly film-noir-detective-thriller-jukebox-musical-romp in La Petite Mort. With flavours of classic 1940s noir by way of The Goon Show, the whole…
