Whats The Show – Show Reviews of all kinds from around the nation.
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…
The Queens Nanny
‘The Queen’s Nanny’ opened in Wollongong on the 16th of October at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre. Fresh from their world premiere season at Sydney’s…
The True Cost of Living at the Melbourne Theatre Company
The phrase “cost of living” has been in the headlines for months, typically evoking the daily grind of bills and inflation. However, Cost of Living, staged…
Lizard People
“Lizard People” is a light-hearted comedy by writer-director-producer Laura McKenzie that pokes fun at just about anything in pop culture. The interplaneta…
Eucalyptus: The Opera
A beautifully fluid and enchanting story is what first comes to my mind in sitting to write this review on the new EUCALYPTUS: THE OPERA
I must mention…
The Milky Way Film Review
The Milky Way, the creation of multi-talented Israeli director, writer and editor Maya Kenig is a thought-provoking story with a hint of dystopia surroundi…
Diane Warren Relentless: Eccentric Honest and Real
“Diane Warren: Relentless” is a documentary that portrays the making of one of the world’s most successful songwriters. A Golden Globe, Oscar and Grammy wi…
Wife – An Exploration
What is the meaning of the word Wife? Australian playwright Samuel Adamson’s script explores gender roles and expectations of marriage through four time ch…
All About the Levkoviches Film Review
All About the Levkoviches is about love, inclusion, and the need to be accepted especially by your family.
It tells the story of a well-meaning but tena…
Deep In The Hundred Acre Wood
As a lifelong lover of A.A. Milne’s stories and poems and the endearing E.H Shepherd illustrations of ‘Winnie The Pooh’ I was deeply intrigued to view the …
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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…
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 …
A Playful Parody – Potted Potter Returns to The Seymour Centre
What began as a skit in 2005 to entertain people lining up to buy Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in a London bookstore has become Potted Potter…
Hannah Gadsby Woof!
Hannah Gadsby brings their new show “Woof” to Melbourne Arts Centre for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Their star has risen well and truly si…
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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 …
360 ALLSTARS Circle Back For Another Round
The 360 ALLSTARS are celebrating the anniversary of their first performance in 2013 by taking their phenomenal show on the road across a four-continent wor…
Tempo Tumbles into The Riverside!
Tempo opens with the Flying Fruit Fly Circus ensemble spilling out of the body of a grand piano and executing a precise and impressive flurry of floor acro…
A Mid-Autumn Night’s Frenzy Of Laughter And Joy
Often, the idea of seeing a Shakespearian play conjures up similarities to visiting the opera, symphony, or ballet. There’s a stigma of intelligence, stuff…
Venture Down the Rabbit Hole with Alice in Wonderland
Under a sunny and exceptionally warm Autumn Saturday, families with young children arrive at the Pioneer Gardens expecting to see beloved characters from A…
