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Javelin (Sufjan Stevens) – music review

Rare is the artist who does their best work when they are on top of the world, when all is…

Manifesto (Stephanie Lake Company) – music theatre review

Eighteen dynamos of dance and drums dazzle and delight at Arts Centre Melbourne. They are truly mesmerising in an energetic display…

Dumb Money – movie review

Australian director Craig Gillespie continues his successful foray into American film with Dumb Money. The film showcases Gillespie’s fast-paced directorial…

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (MTC) – musical theatre review

The turbulent life of jazz singer Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan) is on show in an intimate club setting in…

A Stranger in the Citadel (Tobias S Buckell) – book review

Tobias S Buckell’s standalone speculative fiction novel A Stranger in the Citadel opens with literally a killer first line: The…

2023 Cunard British Film Festival – a preview

This November, the 2023 Cunard British Film Festival (presented by Palace Cinemas) will bring the finest British filmmaking, production and…

Four Flat Whites In Italy (Genesian) – theatre review

For a journey of self-discovery, go to Italy they say. Whatever it is about this place – the history, the…

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Saltpillar Theatre) – musical theatre review

Talk about playing mind games with words. Seventeen years after MTC staged this Tony Award winning musical comedy, Saltpillar Theatre has…

The Visitors (Victorian Opera) – opera review

A moving depiction of the early days of colonialism and its impacts on the First Peoples, The Visitors is set…

FOX (Three Bags Fool) – theatre review

As you enter The Showroom Theatre, there is a faux fox that looks dead lying in the middle of the…