Our reviewers give their verdict on the latest shows around town,including Chicago and gigs from Pond and 5 Seconds of Summer’s Luke Hemmings.
What happens at Australia’s musical theatre festival? Young people hone their craft,stars revel in the virtuosic lyrics and storytellers gather.
Everyone onstage seems to relish channelling the rebellious energy of the downtrodden artistic demimonde,who live and love on their terms and stand ready to stick it to the man.
One of opera’s most famous ‘mad scenes’ is on show in Melbourne Opera’s production of Lucia di Lammermoor.
Eight years after becoming a huge cult hit in the West End,the musical The Grinning Man is heading Down Under.
Our reviewers give their verdict on acts all over town from the No Pay,No Way,Carmen,Chris Isaak and Grease.
Listeners were dazzled with the dizzying accuracy of Vikingur Olafsson’s fast hand-crossing,which was made far more perilous on a modern piano.
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes a thrilling play about footy and racism;the Jonas Brothers’ play Rod Laver Arena on first-ever Australian tour,Fred again..’s instant arena tour;and two comedies:one about two super-Karens meeting for their weekly lunch,and another about two young men who have to deal with a sick cow.
After nine years,the fanfare and pomp of Broadway blockbuster Wicked is back in Melbourne.
The cumulative effect of Max Martin’s songs is excruciating.
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Rent at the State Theatre,The Crying Room:Exhumed,Greentea Peng,Cuddle,and Queens of the Stone Age.