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Alice Tovey: Malice is one of the highlights of the Fringe Festival so far. Is Malice really about malice or is it just a pun on Alice's name? Are carefully-aimed criticisms of society along…
Jessica McKerlie doesn't like labels. She doesn't like them when society gives them to us. She doesn't like it when we give it to themselves. She doesn't even like the word labels. Wh…
HART is beautiful, heartbreaking and liberating storytelling. With old checkerboard lino, faded damask wallpaper and a wooden table, the tiny stage in the Fringe hub Parlour Room look…
Queensland Theatre Company has just uncaged its 2016 season. And what a lineup! Not only is it the company's 45th season, but it is the last season Artistic Director Wesley Enoch will progra…
Not sleeping well for one night is about as annoying as Kanye declaring he's running for president. Not sleeping well constantly is akin to NBC cancelling Law and Order: SVU #ican'teven. Sle…
Slut is a short and snappy Fringe Festival contribution, directed by Natarsha Wrensted who has melded a great ensemble from the performers. Patricia Cornelius' 2008 script presents multiple …
One of the richest awards for playwrights in Australia " The Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award " has been encouraging the development of performing arts projects since 1995. And luckily for A…
Nick Eynaud wants to be rich, famous and powerful. It's the kind of wish we might expect from a WAAPA graduate who has dreamed of stardom since he won so many "Loveable Baby" contests when h…
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom is a very stupid play, and this is a fittingly stupid production of it. Charles Busch's classic drag satire of Hollywood leading-lady tropes looks none of its 30 ye…
I'm still waiting for Will Hannagan to put out a gosh darn pop album already. In lieu of this, he returns to Fringe with POP|PRESS, a brand new musical extravaganza. When expatriate Aus…
Rob Lloyd recounts the tale of his first ever great love in The Heart Awakens, a touching and poignant exploration of relationships and the power of pop culture. Lloyd is endearingly dorky a…
After taking out Best Cabaret at the 2012 Melbourne Fringe with Just A Little Something and blowing Melbourne Cabaret Festival audiences away with True Story, award winning performer and wri…
In #DearDiary, Andi Snelling walks a fine line " and she knows it " between nostalgia and indulgence, reading extracts from the diaries she has kept most of her life. One actor shows can be …
Melbourne’s Emily Taylor worked with primary school students to create the characters, opinions and ideas for Backwards. In her show about understanding life backwards and living it…
After talking about his criminal father and his heroin-addicted mother in the opening minutes of the show, Corey White warns that the show will get darker. And it does, but there was somethi…
Does Nico sleep with the guys she does for the sex or for the t-shirts she takes home in the morning? Opening nights can be a bit like first dates or first hook-ups. Awkward at first, but if…
MKA has a strong reputation for hard-hitting political theatre, but their latest " Bounty " is more miss than hit. Eric Gardiner, writer and sound designer, targets ex-Queensland Premier Cam…
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&#…
What was your first encounter with Harry Potter? It's a question that comes up early in Darcy Dann's Fringe debut, Accio Adulthood, in which she charts her own history with The Boy Who Lived…
Elena Gabrielle is exceedingly vulgar, covered in mud, and not much else, as she presents an evening in the company of the filthiest cabaret deviants of the Fringe. Supported each night by a…
Kick the Bucket has more costume changes than a Cher concert. And yet, somehow, this doesn’t distract from the material. Back in Victorian times, death and dying were everyday topics o…
Jo Litson revealed yesterday in The Sunday Telegraph that the coveted role of Sam, made famous in the move by Patrick Swayze, would be played by Rob Mills in the upcoming national tour of Gh…
Once is a gem of a show, a musical that unfolds gently and poignantly. It’s romantic but not sentimental, quietly sad and yearning and essential. The Australian production of Once p…
Sarah Gaul, one of Australia's most exciting emerging comediennes, has taken her successful one-woman shows to Melbourne Comedy Festival, Melbourne Cabaret Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival…
