Melbourne Reviews

Details: Nikki Spunde; 12 February 2012

Tribes is a drama about belonging and exclusion, in particular about feeling excluded from groups that seem you should naturally belong to. Like your own family.

Details: Nikki Spunde; 09 February 2012

Being a one time only event, you won’t get to see it unless you have an actual working Tardis but any of the speakers are worth catching if you see their name on a line-up.

Details: Simonne Michelle-Wells; 07 February 2012

His crooning credentials have never really been in question, but I didn’t realize how… bouncy he is. He clearly has to move to the music, and it makes for a one highly entertaining, invigorating show.

Details: Heather Bloom; 06 February 2012

Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Joined onstage by the stunning vocals of soprano Antoinette Halloran and counter-tenor, Tobias Cole, the performance was a dazzling array of imagery and sound.

Details: Vito Mattarelli; 06 February 2012

The show is very much alive, with some amazing, athletic choreography and some truly touching, and often funny moments.

Details: Carol Middleton; 04 February 2012

The TV series ‘Yes Minister’ and ‘Yes, Prime Minister’ of the 1980s have now been revived in a stage version Yes, Prime Minister, which opened in London in 2010 and has finally washed up on our shores.

Details: Vito Mattarelli; 29 January 2012

SHooSH! Productions first produced Pageant over ten years ago, and have decided to revive the production, with mixed results.

Details: Carol Middleton; 29 January 2012

Gertrude Stein’s plays are rarely performed, no doubt because they are challenging, not so much for the performer as for the audience.

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