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- Liza Dezfouli
This adaption of Chekov's Uncle Vanya by Laurence Strangio delivers a classic play with an effective timelessness of approach.
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- Joanna Bowen
The Hayloft Project has achieved yet another incredible production, paring down their craft to reveal this story's powerful and complex centre.
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- Joanna Bowen
Conducted by the world-renowned Andrew Wailes, the concert merges three pieces and three languages into a thematically coherent and artistically excellent whole.
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- Heather Bloom
A teasing hand beckons, a flirtatious wave of a diamond clad finger and you're hooked. Behind the heavy black curtain a woman in red waits patiently and the heady sounds of 1950's jazz fills the stage.
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- Heather Bloom
Last Saturday evening, facing the bitter cold winds of Melbourne's South, a crowd began to gather around the Malthouse Theatre, the kind of crowd that can only be brought together for one thing. Gratuitous nudity.
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- Vito Mattarelli
One of Melbourne's more celebrated non-professional musical theatre companies, CLOC Musical Theatre has scored a coup in being the first to be able to present Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard to its audiences.
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- Jan Chandler
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