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Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett, at Meat Market - 2 hours, including interval
With a powerful and pulsating music base, inspired by Berlin in the 1920s, Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett is slick and sizzling, ribald...
Alex First
20 hours ago3 min read


Popera: Sex, Death & Politics, at The Motley Bauhaus - 60 minutes
The concept is a game show-based pop quiz with a musical focus, overlaid with a manufactured relationship breakdown by the host, Uma...
Alex First
2 days ago2 min read


Danny Bhoy: Dear World …, at Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne - 70 minutes
Scotsman Danny Bhoy is a brilliant, easy-going, personable, eminently relatable comedian who has been plying his trade full-time around...
Alex First
3 days ago4 min read


Moulin Scrooge! An Adults Only Panto, at Chapel Off Chapel - two hours, plus interval
Drag star Trevor Ashley et al slay it in a riotously funny show that derives its conceit from Baz Luhrmann’s jukebox musical Moulin...
Alex First
4 days ago3 min read

Melanie Bracewell: A Little Treat, at Max Watt's - 60 minutes
Mel Bracewell is comic gold. She is a delightful yarn spinner, who turns the ordinary into the special. Appropriately, she has the...
Alex First
6 days ago4 min read


Harry Potter: The Exhibition, at Fever Exhibition and Experience Centre (62 Dawson Street, Brunswick) - 90 minutes
Harry Potter is a global cultural phenomenon. Â It started with what became the most successful book series in history (more than 600...
Alex First
7 days ago3 min read


Jordan Barr: Dog Why, at The Westin Melbourne - 60 minutes
Frequently politically incorrect, Jordan Barr revels in pushing the boundaries in a show that stirs the pot. Â Many are in the firing...
Alex First
Apr 63 min read


Lightfall: Nature After Dark, at Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne - 45 minutes
Lightscape (Friday, 20th June – Sunday, 10th August, 2025) has become an annual, must-see cavalcade of illuminated wonder at Royal...
Alex First
Apr 62 min read


Antilton, at Theatre Works’ Explosives Factory - 70 minutes
It has the look and feel of a silly student production.  It marks the first fully written play and directorial debut of Oscar O’Brien.  ...
Alex First
Apr 43 min read


One Man Musical, at Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne - 75 minutes
A horrendous sound mix – it was too loud and distorting – ruined what could have been one of the best shows at the Melbourne...
Alex First
Apr 23 min read


Gillian Cosgriff: Fresh New Worries, at The Show Room, Arts Centre Melbourne - 60 minutes
As her show reveals, Gillian Cosgriff is a born worrier who Googles just about everything. Â But, of course, she is not the only stress...
Alex First
Mar 313 min read


Geraldine Hickey: Meander, at Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne - 60 minutes
There is nothing comedian Geraldine Hickey likes more to clear her mind than a bit of a wander – a walk or a run – or so she tells us.  ...
Alex First
Mar 312 min read


SLAY, at Theatre Works' Explosives Factory - 70 minutes
A contemporary comedic horror, SLAY challenges the patriarchy and looks to install feminists as the next legitimate Australian...
Alex First
Mar 302 min read


Luke McGregor: Okay, Wow, at Comedy Theatre (part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival) - 50 minutes
He’s quick-witted, natural, easy going and self-deprecating. He’s playful and he’s funny.  Luke McGregor speaks openly about his autism,...
Alex First
Mar 293 min read


Guys & Dolls (Opera Australia’s Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour) - 3 hours, including a 35-minute interval
Seventy-five years on, Guys & Dolls continues to charm and delight. Â The Handa Opera production on Sydney Harbour is polished, memorable...
Alex First
Mar 264 min read

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Sydney Theatre Company) - 90 minutes without interval
Is the rock a portal to other worlds, the conduit for transformative magic, which allows people to simply disappear? Â These are...
Alex First
Mar 252 min read


MJ: The Musical (Lyric Theatre) - 2 hours 50 minutes, including interval
What a powerhouse of a show this is. The music, the moves and magnitude of it all were certainly not lost on me. Â The setting is the...
Alex First
Mar 243 min read


4000 Miles (Sydney Theatre Company), at Wharf 1 Theatre - 100 minutes, without interval
Twenty-one-year-old Leo Joseph-Connell (Shiv Palekar) values his independence.  He’s fallen out with his mother Jane and is on a...
Alex First
Mar 222 min read


Jesus Christ Superstar (Princess Theatre) - 1 hour 50 minutes, including interval
One of the most powerful opening nights I have attended, the cast of Jesus Christ Superstar absolutely nailed it at the Princess Theatre....
Alex First
Mar 212 min read


Lyceum Highway and Metropolis Monologues (Melbourne Writers' Theatre), at Meat Market Stables - 70 minutes and 50 minutes respectively
Can we escape a tortured past? That question is at the heart of the new drama Lyceum Highway, written by KV Adams and debuting at Meat...
Alex First
Mar 183 min read
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