Melbourne Reviews

Details: Simonne Michelle-Wells; 06 March 2011

Piff, Englishman John van der Put, took the Edinburg Fringe Festival by storm in 2009 and has been wowing audiences ever since.

Details: Darryl Emmerson; 05 March 2011

Coming to public notice through his playing of Keating, he has had his ups and downs (like all of us), and his latest solid gig seems to have been playing Vlad at Dracula’s Theatre Restaurant.

Details: Liza Dezfouli; 05 March 2011

Raimondo Cortese is a singular voice in Australian theatre. His plays seem to meander and appear disjointed but possess an internal logic that leaves a delicate impression of eloquence and subtlety.

Details: Liza Dezfouli; 02 March 2011

Jason Robert Brown has a segment of Melbourne eating out of his hands, going by the size and passion of the crowd for his one Melbourne show.

Details: Liza Dezfouli; 27 February 2011

When a production makes you feel like you’re part of the proceedings and you have to hold yourself back from joining in, then something’s going right.

Details: Penelope Broadbent; 25 February 2011

If the immediate discussion The End prompted at its conclusion is any indication, this is the sort of theatre that the Malthouse audience has been waiting for.

Details: Liza Dezfouli; 25 February 2011

Apologia by award-winning playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell is a witty play; it is obvious how much fun the writer has with eloquence.

Details: Stephanie Glickman; 22 February 2011

Motherhood the Musical is an entertaining enough way to pass 90 minutes as long as you are a mother yourself and are not looking for hard-hitting analysis on the theme.

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