Puppets, a nighttime tour of an old convent, live music, storytelling, comedy and drama. It all sounds amazing, doesn’t it? And it could be.

Meow Meow enters from the audience. She wears black fishnet tights, and a shimmering silver gown with matching sparkled eye shadow. She wails and smokes as she puts her leg up on an audience member’s chair, thrusting her crotch into the old lady’s face.

Red Sky Morning is a commentary on our society and a candid look into the modern family unit. It is also a beautifully sincere story about three people and the pressure and problems they face dealing with existence.

Perhaps Altar Boys offended my agnostic sensibilities. Or maybe the surface dialogue, cheesy storyline and cringe-worthy lyrics offended my theatrical sensibilities.

“This is one of my favourite shows,” frontman Devonte ‘Dev’ Hynes says near the end of Lightspeed Champion’s hour long set at the Northcote Social Club on Wednesday night. “No really.”

Welcome to Xchange’s The Wicked Witches of Oz. The beautiful (and sometimes not so beautiful) women on stage are not women at all. This is Wicked done drag style and is absolutely fabulous!

If you’re interested in contemporary art, the Melbourne Art Fair is worth a visit this weekend. Housed at the Royal Exhibition Building, the fair features over 900 living artists and exhibits some 3,000 artworks, with over 80 national and international…

The Melbourne International Arts Festival announced its program on Tuesday, July 17, for artistic director Kristy Edmunds’ fourth and final year. The Festival will run October 9-25 and will feature a range of international and Australian theatre, dance, film, music,…

I went to see a preview of the Red Stitch Actors Theatre’s latest production, Love Lies Bleeding, and was sadly disappointed.

Wanting to see some provocative theatre? St Kilda’s Red Stitch Actors Theatre opens Season 2: 2008 on Friday, July 18 with an exploration into euthanasia.
Don DeLillo’s Love Lies Bleeding tells the story of Alex, a 60-year-old man who is…