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- Liza Dezfouli
‘Fearless’ hardly begins to describe this evening’s phenomena but it’s a good start.
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- Liza Dezfouli
The Melbourne International Jazz Festival opened at The Jazzlab with Paul Grabowsky’s The Gravity Project, so named because different musical traditions and forms are held together by mutual attraction.
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- Danielle Marrs
I walked into the State Theatre with high expectations for Oklahoma based on my previous experience with The Production Company’s work, and they certainly delivered with this production.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Slapstick and verbal wit pulled together with impeccable direction and comic timing make for a witty piss take of Melbourne’s literary world, so familiar to its audience.
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- Doug Knight
The interrogating police officers in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman ask some exceedingly graphic questions, and like the play itself, the journey to unravelling answers is abundantly confronting.
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- Simon Piening
This new production of The Wizard of Oz by Andrew Lloyd Webber retains all of the classic elements that anyone familiar with the 1939 film would hope to see, while subtly updating the story for a more contemporary audience and cleverly incorporating some visual wizardry of it's own.
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- Annika Priest
It’s a tumultuous cloud of life-changing decision that descends on many women as their 30s roll-out. To be a mother or not to be – that is the question?
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- Carol Middleton
The play pares down Peter Carey's Bliss to produce an entertaining three-hour show, with plenty of onstage shenanigans.
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