
After years of learning, practicing and refining their craft, the National Institute of Circus Arts’ (NICA) final year circus students are able to exhibit their dynamic and captivating acts in front of the public in a special showcase held at the custom built NICA in Prahran.

From the rousing overture, there is little doubt that you are in for a musical treat with the long-awaited return of one of the world's greatest musicals – Les Miserables.

It's disturbing, it's distressing, it's an in-your-face dark comedy that makes you nervous and at the same time grateful for the good things in your life.

Carnival of the Animals is a delightful and unique circus and visual theatre experience for children (and their grownups) that beautifully uses and is inspired by the music of classic French composer Camille Saint-Saens.

I came away with the same feeling as I had the last time I saw a play by Keene: impressed but unmoved. The writing is beautiful but bloodless.

I predict that when we look back at The Blue Room’s output for 2014, we’ll say that Giving Up the Ghosts was one of the year’s best.

It’s Out of the Box Festival time again at QPAC and one of the many performances on offer this year is the theatrical interpretation of Oliver Jeffers’ The Incredible Book Eating Boy.