Curtains – The Production Company
The Australian premiere of the Broadway musical-whodunnit Curtains adds another feather to The Production Company’s cap with this polished, brisk
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Author: Paul Selar
City of Angels
From the company that launched their talents last year at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Playhouse Theatre with an inventive production of
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Company
Company is the latest dalliance with another Stephen Sondheim work from independent company Watch This (following Assassins and Pacific Overtures).
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Monash University Academy of Performing Arts: Bluebeard’s Castle
Beyond expectation and presented free of charge, an impressive display of music and performance by the Monash Academy Orchestra treated
Read moreLyric Opera of Melbourne: L’heure espagnole & Gianni Schicchi
For months, Lyric Opera of Melbourne milked everything possible in their advertising campaign that, at first seemingly cryptic, flooded their
Read moreMidsumma: Harvey Milk the opera in concert
While the national opera company is being lampooned for regurgitating the easier-sell popular works, it’s great seeing smaller companies presenting
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Falstaff – Opera Australia
Closing Opera Australia’s 2014 season in Melbourne, Falstaff succeeds as the most intelligently integrated production of the year. As well
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La Cage aux Folles
Amongst the fun and frivolity of the feathers and glitter, the wigs and the legs onstage, backstage and above, a show
Read moreMelbourne Lyric Opera: Werther
I’m comparing Lyric Opera of Melbourne’s new production of Werther as a little tugboat compares to a cruise ship. That’s
Read moreVictorian Youth Opera: The Play of Herod
If you witnessed the conviction and stride with which the young enthusiastic performers displayed in their enactment of a world
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