live performance
Theatre review: The Memory of Water, Ensemble Theatre
This award-winning play about three sisters is a bittersweet comedy.
Theatre review: Twelfth Night, Sydney Opera House
This production of Shakespeare's classic gender swap comedy deliberately dramatises its tragic elements.
Performance review: Bacon, A Dodgeball Named Desire, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Navigating self-acceptance and homophobia in one show, dodging a slew of balls in another, with sport versus arts.
Theatre review: Flake, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre
A story of family, connection and dislocation set in Hanoi.
Music review: Cécile McLorin Salvant, QPAC
Award-winning jazz performer, Cécile McLorin Salvant, wows the audience.
Performance reviews: If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love you, This is Living, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Two Melbourne Fringe shows – one of which explored mischief-makers in Ireland and the other the loss of a wife…
Performance Review: Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream, Space Theatre, OzAsia Festival
A brilliant monologue brimming with existential angst and traditional Indian ice cream.Â
Performance review: Hour of the Wolf, Malthouse
This choose-your-own adventure (again) is the Malthouse's latest immersive production.
Performance reviews: Enemies of Grooviness Eat Sh!T, WAKE, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Two Fringe feminist shows about women in all their power and vulnerabilities.
Comedy reviews: Wil Greenway: The Ocean After All and Scout Boxall: Pork Chop, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Two comedians ply their craft at Trades Hall for Melbourne Fringe Festival.