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Here we have a new Australian musical that I wanted to embrace, but I struggled with.   Most of it is set in a traditional Irish/American...

Few, if any, would question how revolutionary the preschool educational television program Sesame Street has been since it first aired in...

So much raucous fun, POTUS pushes all the right buttons when it comes to political incorrectness and scandal.   In short, the President’s...

Accountability is behind the twisted Agatha Christie tale And Then There Were None.   Eight people are invited to a luxurious island...

Spectacular. Creative (in short, it is visionary). Compelling.   Nijinksy showcases the very best of The Australian Ballet.   As the...

With selective taste appeal, A Nightime Travesty is a walk on the wild side.   It is a parody, an extreme First Nations’ cabaret with...

Is he a hero or a villain, a revolutionary or a zealot?   Fair questions to pose about a man who spent seven years in exile and a further...

Families – you can’t live with them and you can’t live without them.   In short, that is what playwright David Williamson is playing with...

The hero in Hadestown goes to hell and back in his quest to rescue the love of his life.   This is a modern retelling of an ancient Greek...

Life is about sliding door moments.   The decisions we make … the directions we choose have consequences.   And so it is with matters of...

Intergenerational trauma characterises the incendiary play Anatomy of a Suicide, which sees three family stories set in different...

Kate Bush – what did I know about the English singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer before I attended An Evening Without Kate...

Live theatre can throw up curve balls, but this – the 61st iteration of Truth to Power Café globally and its Melbourne premiere –...

Ah, don’t we just love the Irish … and with good reason.   You don’t have to look too far to appreciate their sense of humour.   That is...

A couple of fraught relationships and bygone days are at the heart of Stephen Sondheim’s pointed Tony Award-winning musical, Follies.  ...

Life hasn’t turned out the way 42-year-old Liverpool housewife Shirley Valentine had envisaged.   Married with two adult children – a boy...

Writer and performer Frankie van kan came from a liberal family and, for the most part, was comfortable in her own skin.   Now she pulls...

When I first saw 37 almost a year ago, I was suitably impressed by the authenticity, grit, vitriol and humour involved in the production....

Magicians, comedians and crowd pleasers extraordinaire with the Midas touch … and they have been doing it for 50 years. Oh my!   In a...

In a comic tour de force, Samuel Barnett has the audience in the palms of his hands.   We hang on his every word, as he changes tack,...