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Musicians Vanishing From Australia’s Major Productions As Technology Takes Their Place

Australia’s major musical theatre stages have long promised audiences something increasingly rare, a live event built on the chemistry of…

3 weeks ago

A Pirate’s Life for Me! Maxwell Simon on THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE

Few works in the musical theatre canon have endured quite like The Pirates of Penzance. Gilbert and Sullivan's beloved comic…

4 weeks ago

A Brilliant Mind, A Dangerous Legacy: Brian Lipson on A LARGE ATTENDANCE IN THE ANTECHAMBER

Theatre has long been a space for interrogating the figures history chooses to celebrate — and the ideas society once…

4 weeks ago

Love, memory and the music that brings us home

There is a moment at the beginning of many great love stories when everything changes. For Arthur and Jane, in…

4 weeks ago

Amber Haines on RED and the Power of Contemporary Dance

Contemporary dance has a unique ability to communicate what words often cannot — using movement, physicality, and image to explore…

4 weeks ago

Why theatre is becoming the antidote to screen fatigue

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from having too much to watch and too little to feel.…

1 month ago

Michael Gow on Bringing His Play TOY SYMPHONY Back to the Shire

Michael Gow has spent decades writing about the pull of home. This June, he's finally letting it pull him back.…

1 month ago

Chaos, Ego, and a White Canvas: Toby Schmitz on ART

Yasmina Reza's Art has a deceptively simple premise: one man buys an expensive white painting, and his two oldest friends…

2 months ago

Musings on the MICF: Why we still need the Clown

There is something almost defiant about buying a comedy ticket right now. You hand over your twenty-odd dollars, you find…

2 months ago

Bernie Dieter Brings Beautiful Mayhem Back to Melbourne With Club Kabarett

Bernie Dieter does not make work that politely asks for attention. She commands it. When Club Kabarett returns to Meat…

2 months ago