
Geraldine Quinn's Spandex Ballet has been hosting Upfront, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s all-female gala night for three years now, and she's always good loud belty fun on this lively night of teasers by some of the strongest female performers at MICF.

The Elephant Man is a courageous choice for an amateur theatre company, with its multiple scenes and complex messages, and it takes a director of the experience and skill of Megan Dansie and the cast that she is able to recruit to pull it off.

Mark Kilmurry's production of Good People is slickly, skillfully staged, Tobhiyah Stone Feller's set design that morphs from roller door struggle street to gracious, genteel comfortability is ingenious.

Against a backdrop of headless floating chickens and in front of one of the biggest crowds of the whole Melbourne International Comedy Festival, a dozen raw comics took a five-minute stand for glory.

Cirque Adrenaline really does live up to its name. It's a great big shiny production and clearly no expense has been spared.

The Peasant Prince is simple, imaginative, and constructive celebration of life, while the tawdry, paltry comic book extravaganza delights in destructiveness, depression and darkness.

Grease is the word… but probably is not the word that you’ve heard before. It does, however, most definitely have groove and meaning.