Melbourne Reviews

Details: Jan Chandler; 12 May 2007

Dark secrets, fear, suppressed sexuality, ghosts: Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts has it all; all the things we expect from a good ghost story and more.

Details: Carol Middleton; 07 May 2007

Judging from his performance at the Hamer Hall on Saturday, Corea, at the age of 65, has lost none of the energy and urge to innovate that has always marked his stellar musicianship.

Details: Kellie Heywood; 07 May 2007

Office romance: it can be brutal, pathetic, funny, deeply unfair and ultimately, in the hands of Blue Chair Theatre, very entertaining.

Details: Nic Velissaris; 03 May 2007

Frank Bren’s A History of Motion Pictures is a fast and furious theatrical shadow play of films and film-making in the early twentieth century, that rockets along at a great rate like an early silent film.

Details: Nic Velissaris; 03 May 2007

Leske’s Method is an evening of three short plays presented by Fractured Femur Theatre at La Mama.

Details: Nic Velissaris; 03 May 2007

Blood Policy’s Operation opening scenes immediately pose questions that are slowly unravelled over the course of the performance.

Details: Darryl Emmerson; 30 April 2007

Opera Australia this year presents Dvorak’s Rusalka, a work rarely staged in this country and a welcome departure from the standard Italian or German repertoire.

Details: Stephanie Glickman; 29 April 2007

Sista She And The House Of The Holy Bootay

Sista She was in the house. And it certainly wasn’t a house that one would normally find a feminist comedic hip hop duo.

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