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Secret Life of Humans
Secret Life of Humans is an award-winning play by David Byrne that explores six million years of human history through the lens of a personal...
The Friendships We Let Go
For The Best, playing at the Melville Main Hall, is a heartbreaking, yet relatable piece of verbatim theatre created by Jeffrey Jay Fowler, Mark Storen,...
Bags Packed But Nowhere To Hide: Away At The Theatre On Chester
At the Theatre on Chester, the space itself becomes part of the storytelling. Its cosy intimacy draws the audience in, dissolving the boundary between stag...
Australia Day – Therry Theatre
Australia Day is Jonathan Biggins’ satirical look at the workings of rural councils and in particular an Australia Day organising committee. While the cast...
The Effect – Dopamine, Love, or Both?
I’m already fairly familiar with The Effect by Lucy Prebble when I sit down in the Theatre Works audience, the play having first debuted in...
Daddy Daycare
Imagine: you walk into the Motley Bauhaus Theatrette (a place well renowned for its indie theatre) to the tune of the Playschool theme song, as...
The Woman Behind the Canvas
Disclaimer: This production has strobe lights and covers topics of mental health issues. Ask any Western Australian resident about the Fremantle Art Ce...
Cast Announced For Pride And Prejudice* (*sort Of)
The cast for the 2026 Australian tour of the musical comedy Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) was announced today. The five performers who w...
One Man, Two Guvnors
Melbourne is no stranger to unusual, intimate show venues, but it takes a lot of creativity, planning and passion to make full use of unconventional...
Who I’m Doing This For
(Note: This is a review of a play presented as the second half of a double billing. Melbourne Writers’ Theatre is showing Metropolis Monologues across...
The Game Is Afoot… And Slightly Off The Rails
I had the pleasure of attending The Lost Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Innes Lloyd last night as part of the Melbourne Comedy festival and...
We Laughed, We Cried, We Grooved, We Swooned!
Wow. Yesterday was the International Day of Trans Visibility, and what better way to honour such an important occasion than by seeing Cassie Hamilton’s hyp...
