Melbourne Reviews

Details: Penelope Broadbent; 28 July 2011

Flamenco sin Fronteras | Paco Pena Flamenco Dance Company

One of the most joyous elements in this show is the way it captures the interaction amongst and between the artists; the dancers and musicians, but also the men and women.

Details: Darryl Emmerson; 27 July 2011

What a great, simple and yet adventurous idea, to bring together and present a rich harvest of recent song writing.

Details: Eleanor Howlett; 26 July 2011

The concept for the production is interesting and engaging but unfortunately the script seems a little convoluted at times which muddies the story.

Details: Lee Bemrose; 25 July 2011

Short & Sweet Cabaret & The Best (And Worst) Of Queenie Van De Zandt

It's a chilly Saturday night in Melbourne, so what else is there to do but head to Emerald Hill and hang out at the South Melbourne Town Hall and surrounds. Doesn't sound very appealing until you add that that's where the second Melbourne Cabaret Festival took place.

Details: Darryl Emmerson; 25 July 2011

Gillian Cosgriff comes with a raft of favourable reviews, and you can see why.

Details: Heather Bloom; 25 July 2011

This is cabaret as it should be: smart, funny and at times a little bit too intimate.

Details: Jan Chandler; 25 July 2011

Hamlet is a play that offers much to an audience. It has all the ingredients of a good revenge tragedy: love, lust, anger, murder, ambition, and humour.

Details: Amy Jenkins; 24 July 2011

The Dancers Company’s production of Don Quixote: A Ballet in Three Acts, is a real celebration of the wonderful talent the Australian audience is invited to enjoy on their stage.

Most read Melbourne reviews

West Gate | Melbourne Theatre Company
At 11.50am on October 15 1970, 35 men fell to their death as their place of work gave way from under them.
Heathers The Musical
Capturing the essence of its predecessor, Heathers The Musical is an absurdly comic production that doesn’t just walk the line of polite society but plans to blow it all up with reckless abandon.
The Glass Menagerie | Melbourne Theatre Company
This Glass Menagerie is top shelf, and while blessed with an extraordinary cast and the highest of production values, it will not meet with everyone’s measure of how this play should be staged.
Swan | Elf Lyons
Quirks of the source – and of the environment that sustains it – are cleanly exposed in a high-energy hour of physical comedy, delivered with moments of avian grace.
The Brut Truth: A Champagne Comedy Tasting | Prétentieux vin Branleur
It feels that the show hasn’t quite worked out what point it wants to make.