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Adelaide loved Han’s cabaret Like A German but he’s a Melbourne Comedy Festival virgin. With a band called The Ungrateful Bastards, dancers called The Lucky Bitches, an …
My uterus is still reacting to The Rabble’s Frankenstein. I say it every time, but no one makes theatre like The Rabble does and Frankenstein is stretching their own boundaries f…
The full house was buzzing. The audience had gathered for just one thing, to see a YouTube sensation that has spanned the globe and compressed centuries of culture into one rather hilarious …
If anyone says that Ben McKenzie is uncool, they will have to answer to me! But if they say that Ben McKenzie is Uncool is cool, then that’s cool. Ben’s done lots of shows with o…
It's hard to believe that Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show was penned over 40 years ago by an out of work actor just trying to keep busy. Indeed, it's hard to believe that a musical parod…
The peanuts kids are all grown up. That's the premise for Melbourne-based independent troupe Boutique Theatre's latest production Dog Sees God, currently playing at the Brunswick Mechanics I…
I walked, gingerly, into the North Melbourne Town Hall late on Saturday afternoon with absolutely no idea what to expect. It was week two of Melbourne's first Festival of Live Art (FOLA). We…
While sitting in the foyer of the Athenaeum, waiting for the opening of Melbourne Opera's production of Puccini’s much-loved Madame Butterfly, an orchestra member strolled by and c…
Madama Butterfly is one of the worlds most popular and most performed operas. It remains a guarantee, however, that whether you have seen Puccini’s early 20th century tale of the loss …
With Willy Russell’s iconic West End musical Blood Brothers in full swing at Melbourne’s Chapel-Off-Chapel until April 6, AussieTheatre took time out to hear from the Johnson Twi…
By the end of it’s 2013 Melbourne Fringe season, it was impossible to get a ticket to Isabel and Rachel’s show Edge!. It went on to win Best Comedy of the Fringe and won lots of …
Over the weekend, I came across this gorgeous video made by King Kong cast mates Samm Hagen and Hayley Martin – and I wanted to share it with AussieTheatre readers. For anyone inter…
When the Honest Conman (Nicholas J Johnson) offers games, treats and balloon animals, you won’t be ripped off. He’s teaming up with ventriloquist Sarah Jones for a Pajama P…
Blood Brothers revolves around a pair of twins, Mickey and Edward, who are separated from birth. The children's lives are told through the frame of a series of collisions between binary oppo…
Highlighting the uppers and downers of mental health is Underground's first production of the year, The Wonderful World of Dissocia written by Anthony Neilson. Lisa Jones  (played with gr…
Strains of "All or Nothing at All" on a gentle saxophone with a Monash University Arts band, led the path to the Clarendon Ballroom of the gracious Langham Hotel, a fitting setting for the l…
Sorry, House Full. But we’re coming back soon! Grease - The Musical has played to over 160, 000 patrons in Melbourne since its first preview performance on January 2 this year, a…
Alex de la Rambelje is one of A Modern Deception, who return to MICF with Gentlemen of Deceipt. The three gents (Alex, Vyom and Luke) met at Monash university and continue to throw mag…
Any one who saw Lally Katz’s super-gorgeous Stories I Want to Tell You in Person heard about her writing of Neighbourhood Watch, and will be thrilled that the MTC have brou…
It was a beautiful, balmy, Melbourne autumn evening and what a setting – the stunning grounds of the heritage listed Cranlana, the Myer family home in the heart of Melbourne’s To…
Producer and performer Zack Anthony Curran's latest project could be a real game changer in the Melbourne fringe theatre scene. Last week he and co-producer Lauren-Anne Kempster announce…
Check out our exclusive production shots by Jon Green, from The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) production of Hair. Â The production by the third year musical theatr…
Rama Nicholas’s MICF show is After Ever After, a solo show with 15 characters that’s all about what happens when the fairytale is over. She also offers an brilliant list of sh…
The Drowsy Chaperone, a loving parody of 1920s musicals and a thank you to musical theatre for making life a little more bearable, is something of a recent classic. It has played Broadway an…
Hair is an ensemble piece that recounts and shares the thoughts, lives and angst of hippies disillusioned with the American political system during the 1960s. Cast members certainly were …
