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Stagebugs Productions: Ruthless! The Musical review
Stage Bugs Productions ramp up the camp for a devilishly delightful season of wickedly witty cult favourite, Ruthless! The Musical. All too rarely seen on local stages, 1992 Off-Broadway classic...
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Wicked review [Melbourne 2024]
Rejoicify, fellow citizens of Melbourne! Thrillifying Broadway musical Wicked returns in peak form for a very welcome third season at the suitably swankified Regent Theatre. 21 years after its...
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The Australian Ballet: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland review [Melbourne 2024]
A fittingly grand production for the final season at the State Theatre before its three-year renovation, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland makes a welcome return, sparkling anew with a fresh cast of...
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Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour: West Side Story review [2024]
Making a welcome return, 2019 Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour hit West Side Story showcases a younger lead cast. Tightly drilled dance and wonderful music remain clear highlights. Since the original...
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Chicago the Musical review [Melbourne 2024]
As long as there are phoney celebrities, there will always be Chicago. Whereas the previous three outings were spaced ten years apart, this fourth Australian tour of the iconic 1996 Broadway revival...
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Melbourne Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor review
Splendidly realised in both dramatic and musical terms, this handsome new staging of bel canto treasure Lucia di Lammermoor sees Melbourne Opera at their confident best. Welcomed into the Athenaeum...
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Monstrous Theatre: Rootless Cosmopolitans review
With the provocative punch of a newspaper editorial, new Ron Elisha play Rootless Cosmopolitans arrives promptly on stage with the timeliness and relevance that subsidised theatre could only dream...
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Audra McDonald review [Melbourne 2024]
Saving the last night of her current Australian tour for musical-loving Melbourne, Audra McDonald thrilled, charmed, and moved the adoring crowd with a glorious evening of song and story. Making a...
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The Odd Couple review [Melbourne 2024]
Just shy of sixty years young, Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple returns in a brightly polished, perfectly cast, utterly hilarious revival. A true Broadway classic, the hit 1965 comedy spawned not just a...
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Sunset Boulevard review [Melbourne 2024]
Decadently staged and intriguingly cast, the eagerly anticipated new production of Sunset Boulevard makes its Australian premiere in scintillating form. Arriving at the end of the British mega-musical...
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The Woman in Black review [Melbourne 2024]
By turns funny and fearsome, theatrical thriller The Woman in Black returns in a sharply directed, expertly performed revival. Halfway through a nine-city Australian Tour, the Melbourne season is...
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MSO: What the World Needs Now: A Celebration of Burt Bacharach review
“Love, sweet love” is certainly What the World Needs Now, and there was an abundance of love traveling back and forth across the footlights as a terrific featured cast of singers joined the mighty...
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Patti LuPone: A Life in Notes review [Melbourne]
Thrilling Melbourne musical theatre aficionados once again, Broadway grand dame Patti LuPone returns with her latest intimate and inimitable musical celebration, A Life in Notes. In her sixth decade...
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Beauty and the Beast the Musical review [Melbourne 2024]
Joyful extravaganza Beauty and the Beast the Musical makes a wonderfully welcome return in a slickly streamlined production boasting a brightly polished young cast. Almost 30 years after the...
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Melbourne Shakespeare Company: The Whale review
Brimming with searing humanity, the Melbourne Shakespeare Company production of The Whale elegantly naturalises the play’s inherent pathos to achieve an affecting level of emotional truth. Branching...
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Music Theatre Melbourne: Castro’s Children review
A world premiere of an original Australian musical is a rare event indeed, and is all the more special when the musical is as intelligently conceived, strongly performed, and confidently produced as...
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Clovelly Fox Productions: Elegies: A Song Cycle review [Melbourne 2024]
Bitingly bittersweet and timelessly tender, Elegies: A Song Cycle enthrals with a top flight cast and lovingly inventive staging. Heralding the auspicious arrival of brand new company Clovelly Fox...
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Next to Normal review [London 2024]
Next to Normal soars again, its West End debut season blessed with an extraordinary cast and a boldly confident new production. The rare wholly original musical, Next to Normal won the 2009 Best Score...
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Guys & Dolls review [London 2024]
Believe the hype! Guys & Dolls at flashy new London venue Bridge Theatre is dazzling, joyous, inventive musical theatre as its very best. Reinventing the all-time classic musical from the ground...
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Menier Chocolate Factory: The Baker’s Wife review
Revived in a thoroughly charming a boutique production, rarely staged Stephen Schwartz musical The Baker’s Wife breaks bread at cherished London revival house, Menier Chocolate Factory. Originally...
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