
Taylor takes to the stage in a very relaxed manner and – armed with nothing but a microphone and bathed in spotlight – just starts talking.

She sings these love poems in Spanish, French and English, and the sentiments she expresses aren’t defined by any one tongue; certainly the music she has written speaks its own language.

There was an audible hum of excitement at the Melbourne Recital Centre last night, as the who’s who of Melbourne musical theatre gathered for the second offering in the Steven Schwartz Celebration Triptych, Pippin.

Canberra Repertory’s whimsical production of The Book of Everything is a magical piece of theatre that could transport someone of any age back to their childhood.

As many expected, it’s a far cry from both L. Frank Baum’s novel and its subsequent 1939 adaptation. Less expected, it’s still got a strong, identifiable (and surprisingly complex) narrative.

It’s a great, daring concept for a work. Sadly, Circa don’t fully deliver on that conceptual potential.

If you've ever been to a convention, conference, congress, colloquium, seminar, tutorial, brainstorm, workshop or breakout session, you'll have something to laugh at, somewhere between the mission and vision statements.