Melbourne Reviews

Details: Nic Velissaris; 15 December 2010

Director Adena Jacobs is clinical in her execution of the play, carefully contriving to create every moment and while it looks flawless, the effect leaves you cold and unmoved.

Details: Liza Dezfouli; 13 December 2010

Ela Filar makes unconventional, wild, colourful and spirited musical theatre and her latest show is more polished than its predecessors.

Details: Nic Velissaris; 08 December 2010

Manonita tells the story of the title character whose world is slowly unravelling. It seems that she can no longer distinguish between the voices in her head, and the world around her.

Details: Carol Middleton; 06 December 2010

A Midsummer Night's Dream | Opera Australia

Filmmaker and opera director Baz Luhrmann has always shown a penchant for the spectacular. He has a taste for Bollywood and Italian grand opera, and does not shy away from romantic idealism, visual pageantry and musical ecstasy.

Details: Liza Dezfouli; 30 November 2010

This is cabaret of the kitsch, nostalgic and crass, telling small stories that together make up a funny and delightfully original show.

Details: Liza Dezfouli; 28 November 2010

The problem I found with The Nightwatchman is that it is so self-consciously beautiful it's bloodless.

Details: Bron Batten; 26 November 2010

A Jew and a German explore the legacy of the Holocaust. It is a convergence that is rife with personal and political tension, the cultural legacy of atrocity and guilt through historical implication.

Details: Carol Middleton; 26 November 2010

Singer and bassist Richard Bona has it all at his fingertips: jazz, blues, funk, fusion, bossa nova, Caribbean rhythms and the African beats of his native Cameroon.

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