Whats The Show – Show Reviews of all kinds from around the nation.
Sweet Charity – Closing Days
Firstly, ‘Sweet Charity’ is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It was directed and choreographed for Broa…
The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave
‘The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave’ is a dance and movement work that pulses with all the varied energy of an hours-long dance floor. Created in Aucklan…
Film Review: Weekend In Taipei
From the visionary creator of The Fifth Element, Luc Besson, comes the exhilarating action film Weekend in Taipei.
You don’t have to wait for long befor…
The Crying Room: Exhumed
As we walk into a space with furniture covered with material, it feels like visiting an old mansion where memories are preserved from the passage of time u…
The FUTURE is disappointing
The theatre collective PIGEONPIGEON showcased their play ‘FUTURE’ in the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2024. The original concept of taking different predictio…
YENTL
The Kadimah Yiddish Theatre has done something extraordinary with their story of Yentl – now showing at the Playhouse at the Sydney Opera House: they have …
Sir Terry Pratchett’s The Fifth Elephant
The Fifth Elephant – one of the many successful fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett, inspires this whimsical and spellbinding stage play from Brisbane Arts T…
Jack And Millie
So, a story about cancer. A topic and illness infamously known as a big damper on pretty much everything. How does one convey a story with a sense of posit…
Maybe He’s Born With It Maybe It’s ADHD
Do you need an emotional rollercoaster of a show that will make you laugh, cry and then, upon further thought, inevitably question all of your actions as p…
Global Smash Club: A Full-Throttle Cabaret Spectacle
Exuding colour, light, and all things sublime, Finucane & Smith’s ‘Global Smash Club’ celebrates its 20th anniversary exactly as it came into the world: wi…
Commandante: Nice Cinematography
The opening of Comandante felt like a perfume ad for one of the big Italian fashion houses; a Dolce & Gabbana or Prada. A young woman in 1940’s dress, loo…
Feared and Revered – The Women of Shakespeare
‘Feared and Revered – the Women of Shakespeare’ at the Genesian Theatre is an amalgamation of several of Shakespeare’s well-known characters, scenes and pl…
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Spanish Film Festival: Un Amor
Un Amor is a delirious dive into the torment experienced by a young woman who walked away from the stress of her work interpreting the tragic stories of re…
Spanish Film Festival: Upon Open Sky
Upon Open Sky is a Mexican crime drama set in the 90s, mainly in the Coahuila desert, an arid expanse covering much of the border between Mexico and the US…
Spanish Film Festival: Artificial Justice
Artificial Justice is an offering from Spanish filmmaker Simon Casal as part of the HBSC Spanish Film Festival. The film poses an important ethical questio…
Spanish Film Festival: Jokes and Cigarettes
Director David Trueba says of his film Jokes and Cigarettes – “This is a film about humour, and about survival. Eugenio was one of the most popular comedia…
Melbourne Food and Wine Festival
The Melbourne Food and Wine Festival held from 31 May to 2 June 2024 at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC), offers an unparalleled opportu…
A Melange of Glamour, Tragedy, and Timeless Resonance!
The Princess Theatre was packed to the brim for the grand opening of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard Musical. After nearly three decades, this reima…
Billy Elliot Shines With CLOC Musical Theatre
This is the 60th anniversary year of CLOC Musical Theatre (formerly Cheltenham Light Opera Company) and president Ric Birkett is beaming proud of Billy Ell…
The Last Word
With an eye-catching poster featuring an image of the star throwing a bunch of SCRABBLE tiles off the board into the air, one could be forgiven, walking in…
Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias is a well known 80s movie, but it may be less remembered that it was actually a play first, written by Robert Harling, and inspired by the …
Mystery Radio Theatre
If you need a night of laughter, intrigue, and a touch of whimsy, the Mystery Radio Theatre at The Butterfly Club in Melbourne is your perfect destination. Th…
Rootless Cosmopolitan
With the title of “Rootless Cosmopolitans”, I half expected to turn up and see Carrie and the gals from “Sex and the City” sipping cocktails and comparing …
A Case For The Existence of God
“A Case for the Existence of God”, presented at the Red Stitch Actors Theatre, offers an intimate and thought-provoking theatrical experience propelled by …
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Spanish Film Festival: Artificial Justice
Artificial Justice is an offering from Spanish filmmaker Simon Casal as part of the HBSC Spanish Film Festival. The film poses an important ethical questio…
Sydney Film Festival: Super/Man The Christopher Reeve Story
The directors Ian Bonhote and Peter Ettedgui present the documentary Super / Man: The Christopher Reeve Story to the world and by doing so, they bring him …
The Ballad of Maria Marten – Giving Voice to the Victim
“It’s been a year since I died and still nobody has found me.”
A shadow emerges from a barn. It’s a figure in britches, and so begins a tale which captu…
Spanish Film Festival: Jokes and Cigarettes
Director David Trueba says of his film Jokes and Cigarettes – “This is a film about humour, and about survival. Eugenio was one of the most popular comedia…
Bernie Dieters Club Kabarett
Bernie Dieter is back with a bootylicious BANG and its settings on stun!
Dare to enter if you can handle the heat. A sultry fusion of circus, song an…
Limbo The Return – A Transcendental Glimpse into Another World
The cast of Limbo The Return, was extraordinary! Playing to a packed sell-out house at The Grand Electric, their opening Sydney performance transported the…
A Workout Disguised The Disco Loco Way
I found my musical inner dancing child on this Vivid Sydney Silent Disco Night Tour!
A Silent Disco isn’t a new concept. It’s been popular since the 1990…
The Spook
Travel back to the heart of 1960s working class Australia with ‘The Spook,’ by Melissa Reeves, where the spectre of betrayal looms large and true friendshi…
Dear Diary
‘Dear Diary’, written by Kay Proudlove and directed by Leland Kean, opened last night at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre. The one-woman show, starring…
Let’s Kill Agatha Christie – Plotting and Suspects in a Grey Room
I didn’t know what to expect with a title such as this one, ‘Let’s Kill Agatha Christie’. Murder? Mystery? Plot twists, a curious and confident detective, …
Fourteen; A Coming-of-Age Memoir
There are plays which immerse the audience immediately. Fourteen, originally a memoir by Shannon Molloy and adapted by Nelle Lee, Nick Skubij and the autho…
Behind The Headline Of The Front Page
Picture this. The sound of a typewriter, the keys furiously tapping, while multiple phones sound their distinctive “brrrrring!” under a cloud of cigarette …
