Ballet audiences are normally a comparatively reserved crew, but there is a boisterous energy in the auditorium during Verve. The audience has good reason to be excitable: this showcase of contemporary ballets by The Australian Ballet’s homegrown choreographers is a blast of energy and talent.
It’s the story we all know and love, the original “makeover plot” where the downtrodden lower class girl is transformed into a princess seemingly overnight.
Is it greed or is it kindness that determines our salvation? Who gets to own trauma and who should profit from it?
Seeing a performer more than capable of immense vocal power use it skilfully, seldomly and contextually was a masterclass to the countless singers in the audience
It really is something to walk out of an event genuinely uplifted by talent. The Opening Gala of the 2018 Melbourne Cabaret Festival was not only a fun and classy evening, it was an alluring glimpse into a fine programme canvassing some truly extraordinary performers.
‘Saving the best til last’ is how the Melbourne International Jazz Festival announced legendary bassist Christian McBride on the festival’s closing night.
The Melbourne International Jazz Festival offered up a treat last Friday: Chris Dave and the Drumhedz. The crowd at 170 Russell was the beanie and baseball cap crowd as opposed to the beret and porkpie hat crowd you see at Jazzlab.
The Substation in Newport has an industrial history which has been minimally (and respectfully) refurbished as an art space, that provided the ideal venue for Three Solos.
Stephen Sewell's latest play revisits the meeting in 1964 between film star Mae West and...
Arguably one of the most popular and fiercely loved franchises of all time, JK Rowling’s...
Currently celebrating their 30th year as Australia’s largest independent theatre company, the...
Jersey Boys is a perfectly timed piece of nostalgia backed by a brilliant soundtrack.
