
By now the performers are lining up to play this choice gig, this fest-feast that infuses music throughout the streets, parks, halls, clubs, pubs and many vestibules in tidy town.

The Production Company has waited some time to bring a professional production back to Melbourne audiences, and have been rewarded with a healthy pre-opening Box Office success.

This sweet play by young UK writer Tom Wells about a queer football team is a treat. Barely Athletic might not be the fittest team around but they’re doing their best to be proud.

Feat Theatre launched their performance space in Preston’s Oakover Road last Thursday night with a bizarre multi-dimensional play, Receivers which appears to be about one man’s drug-induced psychosis but you can never be quite sure.

With his trademark mix of sly metaphor and sarcastic humour, Ben Elton’s satirical offering Gasp!, now showing at QPAC’s Playhouse Theatre for QTC, both delights and demands attention from audiences.

Calpurnia Descending mourns the disappearance of true glamour and mystery (both of drag and of the stage and the silver screen) and pays homage to the time when stars were elusive, when the formidable females behind their public images remained private and unknowable.

Felicity Kendal leads the competent cast in this recreation of Noel Coward’s play first produced in 1924.