16 stories by "Joanna Bowen"
This Midsumma festival offers you the chance to go behind the scenes at Melbourne Arts Centre, guided by an Australian entertainment icon: Rhonda! Rhonda Butchmore, that is. If you show up e…
It's hard to think of Bombshells and not think of Caroline O'Connor, the diva who inspired playwright Joanna Murray Smith to write this solo show, with six female characters including …
The Rap Guide to Evolution seeks to educate and entertain by making evolutionary theory relevant and engaging to a wide audience. This might sound like rapper Baba Brinkman has bitten off mo…
Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced was always going to draw fans to see it on stage. I took my mother, a keen fan of Christie, hopeful that even if I didn't enjoy it, at least she would…
Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad is a confronting and humorous account of Penelope, a bit player in the epic Odyssey. Famous for her patience and faithfulness, Penelope waits 20 years for he…
Legally Blonde, The Musical is the epitome of the feel-good stage spectacular. This gem of a production has everything " a fantastic script, excellent cast, great music and seamless technica…
On the outside a Circus Oz show is a delightful, clever, cheeky romp. On the inside it breathes a furnace-like soul, pumping warmth all through the Big Top and its full audience. With so muc…
774's Roaring Swing had all the potential for a glamorous night: amazing outfits, live bands and some thousand and a half eager attendees, determined to dance the night away. Swing Patrol he…
When Bell Shakespeare deviates from the master, you know there's a good reason. From Ancient Greek myth via Euripides, through Seneca's Rome, past Racine in France and finally to Ted Hughes …
There are so many things to love about the Fear&Love troupe: their awesome energy, great ensemble connection, an extensive (read: revolting) array of talents and an infectious delight in…
Love Is My Sin is a beautiful and complex layering of Shakespeare's sonnets with a woman's voice, a man's voice and a cello's voice. It explores the language of the master's sonnets alongsid…
Any honest Brecht performance means a serious workout of mental and physical focus, and this latest production of The Good Person of Szechuan by La Mama does full justice to Brecht's dauntin…
The boys of This Is Siberian Husky have wrestled sketch comedy into an electric chair and catapulted it into The Tuxedo Cat. Their horribly amusing, brilliantly wrong humour is founded on th…
Yana Alana, where have you been all my life? From the first, stunning moment of Between the Cracks, Yana Alana is a delight " a stark naked (except for some sparkles), gloriously blue and bo…
A show based on Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece was never going to have feel good or light-hearted chick flick love. So while I wasn't surprised to come out feeling furious, I wasn't expec…
Leo is a mind-bending creation from Berlin company Circle of Eleven that merges circus, dance, digital projections and comedy into a wonderfully physical experience and brings circus into an…
