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Billy Elliot The Musical (CLOC Musical Theatre) – musical theatre review

Billy Elliot The Musical remains as moving and evocative as when I first saw it at Her Majesty’s Theatre on…

Medea (Queensland Theatre) – theatre review

Discard any preconceived notions of an ancient Greek play by Euripides about a woman who kills her children. Adaptations of…

Rootless Cosmopolitans (Chapel Off Chapel) – theatre review

Being identifiable as Jewish today is more fraught than at any time since the Holocaust. Since the October 7 Hamas terrorist…

The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan – movie review

Intrigue and subterfuge abound in the rich and engaging period action drama The Three Musketeers: d'Artagnan. This is Part I…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Arts Theatre) – theatre review

I’ve now seen A Midsummer Night’s Dream countless times, including at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon (#sogood), because despite…

Share House: The Musical (Arts Centre Melbourne) – musical theatre review

Sharing a house with friends and/or strangers can be anything but straightforward. Sometimes, mighty testing, in fact. So it is in…

Hold Your Horses (Karate Boogaloo) – music review

Karate Boogaloo hails from Melbourne and has been a staple of the underground music scene for over a decade. Comprising…

PIAF! The Show (The Palms at Crown and touring) – music theatre review

Noted for her interpretation of French ballads, Edith Piaf (19th December 1915 – 11th October, 1963) was one of the…

Homo Pentecostus (Malthouse Theatre) – theatre review

What did I know about Pentecostalism when I entered the Malthouse Theatre? Little to nothing, save for a few colourful…

The Curse of Pietro Houdini (Derek B Miller) – book review

American author Derek Miller has what can only be called an eclectic output. His The Girl in Green looked at…