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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…

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…