Whats The Show – Show Reviews of all kinds from around the nation.
Improbable Fiction: A Comedic Delight
There’s something specifically delightful about a farce with a lot of heart. Castle Hill Player’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s ’Improbable Fiction’ has a…
Between Past and Present: A Slow-Burn to Nowhere
If procrastination were an art form, the Prozorov sisters would be its masters. Their existential crisis is a painful blend of paralysing indecision and br…
Comedy Carousel
Three one-act plays, one charming theatre and oodles of talent. The Garrick Theatre’s latest stage production, the Comedy Carousel delivers ridiculous hila…
Murder on the Magic School Bus
In a fun re-imaging of a nostalgic children’s favourite – Murder on the Magic School Bus is exactly what it makes out to be, promising just under an hour o…
Barking Up the Right Tree
The Motley Bauhaus is a tiny theatre at the back of a large pub in Carlton. It’s intimate nature lends itself to powerful storytelling and heartfelt perfor…
F5 – Presented by UNLID Dance Theatre
Certainly a different type of show when you walk into the alley laneway next to the Arnold Street Studio to see a performance by three ultra-talented dance…
Hot White Kiss
Written and directed by James WF Roberts, Hot White Kiss is an hour-long play focusing on five individuals, all sporadically linked through polyamorous & b…
Booze & The Bard: Macbeth! The Scotch Play
With the title of the show named Booze & The Bard: Macbeth I had a feeling this wasn’t going to be your typical Macbeth play. As part of Perth’s annual Fri…
Tongue in Cheeks
Whatever I thought I was expecting from the show, ‘A Body At Work, the tale of a queer woman’s 17 years, and counting, in the sex industry,’ I was not expe…
I Watched Someone Die On TikTok
With the title of the show ‘I watched someone die on Tik Tok’ I had no idea what to expect from this show. All I knew was that it would be a one-person sho…
A Riveting Journey of Power, Pride, and Consequences
With its first twist, An Inspector Calls locks the audience into an intriguing labyrinth where the seven sins are put on trial and the reckoning begins. Pl…
Old Fitz Theatre Presents: Pride and Prejudice (An Adaption)
Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most eligible sister of them all?
In an uproarious reinterpretation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, this bol…
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English Eccentrics: An Opera
Eccentricism is by definition, “an unusual or odd behavior on the part of an individual”. The Victorian Opera offers a memorable exposé of 19th-century cha…
Finesse: An Australian First
Whilst always being required of course for Salsa and Latin dance classes, ‘heels’ have rarely been seen in a regular dance school until very recently. Now …
Sam King presents TA DA: The Ramblings of a Magician
Great magic does not have to be big and extravagant to entertain, and Sam King proves this in his award-winning show, “Sam King Presents TA DA: The Ramblin…
The Exotic Lives of Lola Montez at Chapel Off Chapel
The Exotic Lives of Lola Montez at Chapel Off Chapel
Attending the latest production of “The Exotic Lives of Lola Montez” at Chapel Off Chapel was an ex…
The Last Train to Madeline
The Last Train to Madeline is an emotive and nostalgic play, following childhood best friends Maddy and Luke in Wangaratta throughout the ages of 8, 16 and…
Blood in the Water
Playwright Jorja Bentley has authored a gripping and provocative theatre show with ‘Blood in the Water’. The show comes laden with content warnings: sexual…
Shrapnel
‘Shrapnel’, performed by Natalie Gamsu at Fortyfive Downstairs is a distinctly charming recital depicting Gamsu’s life from being a young jewish girl livin…
Spanish Film Festival: A Ravaging Wind
‘A Ravaging Wind’ is the story of a young girl, Leni, who travels with her preacher father, Reverend Pearson, around towns in rural Argentina…
The Promised Land Film Review
The inimitable Mads Mikkelsen heads the cast of this epic drama, set in 18th Century Jutland, Denmark. The main narrative revolves around one Captain Ludvi…
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…
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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…
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, …
