Barbara Booth

Melb Cabaret Festival: Laughing Behind the Piano

Laughing behind the Piano is a strange title, but so appropriate because Melbourne’s Peter Hurley is a man to whom…

13 years ago

Melbourne Cabaret Festival: Dear Blossom

From ‘Surrey with the Fringe on Top’ to ‘Peel Me a Grape’, Fem Belling took us on a wonderful trip…

13 years ago

Melbourne Cabaret Festival: Chaplin, A Life. In Concert

As the audience waited for David Pomeranz to appear in Chaplin: A Life. In Concert, a screen showing a photograph of…

13 years ago

Genesis to Broadway

Genesis to Broadway is, musically, a giant step but perhaps too big for such a small venue. Maybe technology let…

13 years ago

Arafat in Therapy: First class shtick

It felt a little ironic walking into what was once a chapel to the rousing mix of Israeli and Arabic…

13 years ago

Melbourne International Jazz Festival: Christian McBride Trio

As devoted fans cheered US bass icon Christian McBride onto the Melbourne Recital Centre stage, he, in return, was glowing…

13 years ago

MICF: GP The Musical

Doctors don’t listen, doctors keep us waiting, doctors work too hard or not hard enough … What is going on…

13 years ago

MICF: The Man Who Planted Trees

The publicity for The Man Who Planted Trees said variously for ages 2–7 or 7–adult.  I hope people read the…

13 years ago

NICA’s Leap of Faith

Circus training can start very young and if it were compulsory in schools,  would contribute not only to good health…

13 years ago