Melbourne Reviews

Details: Caroline Wilson; 07 July 2009

The music is the star of this show and Luke Hunter’s band is not only brilliant at belting out the songs but has captured the Four Season’s style beautifully

Details: Stephanie Glickman; 04 July 2009

The Burlesque Hour LEGENDS! | Finucane & Smith

It seems Melbourne can’t get enough of The Burlesque Hour. It keeps returning and the audiences keep coming.

Details: Carol Middleton; 02 July 2009

The Birthday Party | Melbourne Theatre Company

Fifty-one years after English playwright Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party was greeted with hostility and incomprehension from London audiences, the play still has the power to mystify audiences.

Details: Penelope Broadbent; 27 June 2009

Paris Match is The Australian Ballet’s latest programme to be brought to Melbourne and it showcases two works that in style and vision are incredibly different.

Details: Olympia Bowman-Derrick; 26 June 2009

Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan is a character-driven dramatic comedy which lets you laugh as its characters struggle with the moral dilemmas of right and wrong.

Details: Bron Batten; 25 June 2009

Construct is an exploration of building, decay and collapse, aspiration and expectation.

Details: Rachel Orzech; 22 June 2009

Wunderschön | Meow Meow and Australian National Academy of Music

Unclassifiable, Wunderschön straddles cabaret, theatre, and classical music in its re-imagining of 21 Lieder by nineteenth-century composers Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert.

Details: Rachel Orzech; 20 June 2009

Barely Contained makes you laugh, think, gasp, grab on to the edge of your seat, let out a sigh of relief, and then laugh again.

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