live performance

Performance and venue review: Elegant, VIVA
Melbourne has a new cabaret venue that offers food and drink as part of its entertainment offering.

Theatre review: World Problems, Southbank Theatre
A solo show that spans near and far, borne of personal and global events.

Dance review: Études/Circle Electric, Sydney Opera House
A double bill of dance that canvasses contemporary and classical works.

Music Review: Heroic, Adelaide Town Hall
Leading Sibelian, Osmo Vänskä conducted a vivacious performance of Sibelius and Beethoven.

Dance review: EMBODIED, Dancehouse
A double bill of dance captivated and entranced.

Musical review: The Grinning Man, Alex Theatre
A number of miscalculations may make you grimace instead of grin in the Australian premiere of this British musical.

Theatre review: WAY, fortyfivedownstairs
A one-person show that skilfully covers a societal issue with empathy and compassion.

Theatre review: Peacemongers, Darebin Arts Speakeasy
An experimental think piece that played with the concept of a perfect world.

Music review: Hidden Thoughts I: Do I matter?, Southbank Centre
MSO’s Hidden Thoughts season is celebrating music’s ability to tell stories that move and inspire us.

Performance review: I Wish..., Theatre Royal
Children's circus in a collaborative effort that gently introduced young visitors to physical theatre.