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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…

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…

Black Box (QPAC) – theatre review

Queensland writer and composer Paul Hodge’s Black Box touches down in world premiere at QPAC with unique proposition. It presents…

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story – movie review

Mad About the Boy has been released to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Noel Coward’s death. This well-researched, revealing…

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – movie review

More monkey business. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is another reboot … reset … reconfiguration of the 1968…

World Problems (MTC) – theatre review

Memories – personal, intimate, global … over time and space … on Earth and beyond. A monologue that is vivid and…

HE (Theatre Works’ Explosives Factory – theatre review

The ocean, the family, the lover – 20 years on a man returns to his childhood home and revives memories…

James (Percival Everett) – book review

Percival Everett has rarely held back. His 2011 novel Erasure, now the film American Fiction, explored the treatment of Black…