Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Theatre Review
Andrew Lloyd Webber is a renown and celebrated composer of musical theatre. One of his first musical…
Musicals
Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical – Theatre Review
Parody is never an easy genre to get right. There has been many a time over the…
Titanic The Musical: In Concert – Theatre Review
Titanic. A name that is instantly recognisable. Not only is it arguably the most famous ship of…
Phantom of the Opera (Musical) – Theatre Review
In all honesty, I never thought I’d have the opportunity to see Phantom of the Opera again….
Urinetown (Musical) – Theatre Review
Nominated for 9 Tony Awards and winning three of them for Best Book, Best Original Score, and…
Disney’s Freaky Friday: The Musical – Theatre Review
The idea of body swapping isn’t something new. But it is a tale that has always been…
Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical (Adelaide Season) – Theatre Review
For many my age, the 90s were hugely influential to who I have become today, influenced by…
Come From Away, Melbourne (2022) – Theatre Review
Sometimes emotions around theatre are an interesting thing. Twice I had tried to see Come From Away…
Hairspray (Musical) – Theatre Review
Initially in 1988, we saw the original Hairspray film starring John Waters make some significant noise. In…
FANGIRLS (Sydney Opera House) – Theatre Review
Back in early 2021, I saw a little-known production titled FANGIRLS at the Playhouse Theatre, Arts Centre…
9 to 5: The Musical – Theatre Review
Initially released back in 1980, 9 to 5 is a comedy film starring Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda…
Passing Strange (Musical) – Theatre Review
Passing Strange is a bold and brave musical that was quite the strange experience. Hosted at the…
Melbourne Theatre Company’s Come Rain or Come Shine (Musical) – Theatre Review
Love. Whether it be for a love of music, friendship love, family love, or unrequited love, like…
SIX (Musical) – Theatre Review
Whether we’re history buffs or not, we’ve all heard of Henry VIII (pronounced ‘Henry the 8th’) in…
Frozen the Musical (Adelaide Season) – Theatre Review
Back in 2013, the film Frozen took the world by storm, with kids falling in love with…
Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical – Theatre Review
Adapted from the 1782 French novel ‘Les Liaisons dangereuses’ or its English title ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, the 1999…
Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella – Theatre Review
There are many versions of Cinderella scattered through time via various forms of media, whether it be…
Driftwood the Musical – Theatre Review
There are many harrowing stories that families have about war. How they managed to escape, the family…
Girl From The North Country – Theatre Review
There is no denying that Bob Dylan is one of the greatest songwriters of all time. I’ve…
An American In Paris – Theatre Review
I want to take you back to the 1950s where the legend that is Gene Kelly is…
Melbourne Theatre Company: Fun Home – Theatre Review
Adapted from the graphic-memoir by cartoonist Alison Bechdel titled ‘Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic’, Fun Home is…
Into the Woods – Theatre Review
It is undeniable that the late great Stephen Sondheim is one of the best musical composers and…
Jagged Little Pill – Theatre Review
I remember growing up being a huge fan of Alanis Morissette for her naturally beautiful charm, as…
Frozen – Theatre Review
It’s hard to believe that Disney’s Frozen phenomenon started 8 years ago. Since then, we’ve had two…
FANGIRLS – Theatre Review
I am a ‘fan girl’. When watching Yve Blake’s original Australian musical FANGIRLS, I was incredibly triggered….
Impromptunes: The Completely Improvised Musical (Melbourne International Comedy Festival) – Comedy Review
For lovers of musical theatre and comedy, meet Impromptunes: The Completely Improvised Musical from Australia’s leading team…
Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts – Theatre Review
It has been a long time between curtains for live theatre in Melbourne. So, when I was…
Come From Away, Melbourne (2021) – Theatre Review
Ten months after COVID shut the doors on live theatre in Melbourne, the incredible musical Come From…
Hamilton – Film Review
I remember being obsessed with Hamilton long before the cultural phenomenon won the Tony Award for Best…
Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki at Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, February 29, 2020 – Live Review
It is phenomenal, the number of lives that have been impacted by Hayao Miyazaki’s work, but Miyazaki’s…
Billy Elliot the Musical – Theatre Review
Originally when Billy Elliot opened in Australia over 10 years ago, I regretfully missed seeing it. So,…
Shrek the Musical – Theatre Review
The much-anticipated Broadway smash hit Shrek the Musical finally opened in Melbourne this week to a packed…
Chicago – Theatre Review
17 years ago, I fell in love with Chicago via the silver screen when Renée Zellweger and…
Melbourne Theatre Company: Kiss of the Spider Woman – Theatre Review
Admittedly, I did not know much about Kiss of the Spider Woman apart from it being a…
Bright Star – Theatre Review
Written and composed by Edie Brickell and legendary comedian Steve Martin comes, Bright Star. A double-barreled emotional…
Hans Zimmer at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, October 7, 2019 – Live Review
Chances are, if you love your movies, you would have heard of Hans Zimmer and his incredible…
The Beautiful Game – Theatre Review
Showing at Prahran’s Chapel off Chapel and from the producers that brought us Blood Brothers, comes musical…
The Little Mermaid in Concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – Live Review
When it comes to symphonies, the first conductor and symphony orchestra I was ever exposed to was…
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Theatre Review
The wonderful wacky world of Willy Wonka has wondered its way into Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre with…
Come From Away, Melbourne (2019) – Theatre Review
I have a confession to make. While I was aware of the terrorism in New York that…
The Book of Mormon, Adelaide – Theatre Review
Now I’m not one of the biggest musical fans, but even I know that The Book of…
Victorian Opera’s A Little Night Music – Theatre Review
Although I am familiar with many of Sondheim’s works such as Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd and…
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Theatre Review
The tale of Sweeney Todd is extremely dramatic, but that’s what makes it so deliciously enticing. In…
West Side Story – Theatre Review
It’s crazy when you think about the events that occur in West Side Story, as dramatic as…
Muriel’s Wedding the Musical – Theatre Review
Based on the 1994 iconic Australian film of the same name, Muriel’s Wedding the Musical has taken…
Jersey Boys – Theatre Review
Back for the third time in Melbourne, the city where it all began in 2009, this musical…
Madiba the Musical – Theatre Review
Madiba is the latest musical to hit Melbourne theatres. Set in South Africa during the Apartheid regime,…
Disenchanted! – Theatre Review
I love Disney. Like many, I grew up watching the Disney animated classics such as The Little…