Melbourne Reviews

Details: Vito Mattarelli; 24 July 2016

Funny Girl was first produced by The Production Company in their inaugural season in 1999. Travelling full circle, the company has revived the show, and managed to lure back their original star, Caroline O'Connor.

Details: Heather Bloom; 19 July 2016

Menopause The Musical - Women on Fire!

Eleven years after its initial limited season run extended to a six-month stay in Melbourne, Menopause the Musical has returned to the city in a vibrant array of double entendre’s and cheeky characters.

Details: Heather Bloom; 17 July 2016

Othello | Bell Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s harrowing tale of passion, jealousy, and betrayal remains as riveting as it is difficult to watch.

Details: Vito Mattarelli; 10 July 2016

Titanic the Musical premiered on Broadway over 20 years ago, yet this is the first time Melbourne has had the opportunity to experience this adaptation of the fateful events.

Details: Liza Dezfouli; 10 July 2016

Cut the Sky is a beautiful, gentle work enjoying elegant moments expressing the joy of the living body.

Details: Diane Stubbings; 26 June 2016

David Hare is one of those rare playwrights who is able to embed political ideas and arguments so deeply within a character you forget there’s a writer at work behind it all.

Details: Catherine Della Bosca; 24 June 2016

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown | Aleksander Vass and Vass Productions

For the Peanuts gang – Charlie, his sister Sally, Lucy, Schroeder, Linus and his best bud, Snoopy, it’s just an average day. A day made up of ordinary little moments. And therein, lies it appeal.

Details: Diane Stubbings; 23 June 2016

The Events | Malthouse Theatre

Given the frequency over recent years of mass public killings, any staging of Scottish playwright David Greig’s The Events was going to resonate. This production, coming so soon after the Orlando shootings, touches on wounds that are particularly raw.

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