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The Door in Question (Metro West Shopping Centre in Footscray and nearby) – theatre review

What is real and what is imagined? What if you firmly – hand on heart – believe something to be…

Hadestown (Her Majesty’s Theatre) – musical theatre review

Lovers Orpheus (Noah Mullins) and Eurydice (Eliza Soriano, filling in for regular Abigail Adriano) find out the hard way that…

The Black Woman of Gippsland (MTC) – theatre review

The past and the present collide in a story that involves reframing a tainted history. We are in Gippsland in…

The Comeuppance (Red Stitch) – theatre review

Personal and societal catastrophic incidents shape a pre-get together, ahead of a 20th anniversary high school reunion in Washington DC…

The Beep Test (Theatre Works) – musical theatre review

The win at all costs mentality that underpins The Beep Test carries with it a high price. This is Year…

St Kilda Tales: A Performance Rave (Theatre Works’ Explosives Factory) – theatre review

Sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. The heartbeat of a suburb is captured in St Kilda Tales. All but two…

The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale (Comedy Theatre) – musical theatre review

Call me a heathen, but I never got into the mythology of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic and beloved trilogy The Lord…

The Verdi Gala Concert (Opera Australia) – opera review

Who were the big winners from The Verdi Gala Concert at Hamer Hall? We – the audience – as we…

Songs from the Canyon (Palais Theatre and touring) – concert review

My, couldn’t we do with more peace and love in the world now, arguably more than ever? That is why…

The Correspondent – 119 minutes – movie review

Highly regarded Australian journalist Peter Greste was arrested by Egyptian authorities in Cairo on 29th December, 2013. He was working…