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Away (MUST) – theatre review

It is the summer of 1967. Young Australians are being drafted to serve in the Vietnam War. Back home, life…

Who’s Bad: The Ultimate Michael Jackson Experience – music review

A spirited, colourful and joyful celebration of the King of Pop, Taalib York recaptures the music and the moves that…

Storked (Theatre Works) – theatre review

Society has grown up with the expectation that women will get married to men and have children. The men will…

The Birds (Malthouse Theatre) – theatre review

I know the 2025 Green Room Awards for the best of the best of Melbourne theatre have just been announced,…

The Surfer (103 minutes) – movie review

An Australian-based psychologically thriller with Nicholas Cage in the lead role, it is about a man on the outer trying…

Shadow Boxing (Theatre Works’ Explosives Factory) – theatre review

A pugilist’s confessional, Shadow Boxing is tough, gritty and unrelenting. Samuel Addison features as the boxer, whose father, Errol Sebastian…

Beetlejuice The Musical (Regent Theatre) – musical theatre review

So much fun. Eddie is just perfect (bad pun for lead Eddie Perfect) as the smelly old demon Beetlejuice, in…

Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular (Rod Laver Arena and touring) – musical theatre review

The emotional resonance of Les Misérables is massive in the Melbourne leg of The Arena Spectacular world tour. It is…

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…