| Learning and reflecting from disaster - ”Surviving” explores tales of extraordinary battles and random brushes with fate.
| BONDI PAVILION: A quirky, slapstick comedy in the manner of Month Python, The Jinglists will make you laugh.
| EXPRESS MEDIA: Brilliantly showcasing a range of young, emerging writing talent, the current issue of Voiceworks – on the theme of play – is extremely appealing.
| FRINGE WORLD: Ali Kennedy-Scott's play chronicling the stories of everyday heroes who fought Victoria's ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires takes audiences on unrestrained emotional ride.
| FRINGE WORLD: LA-based writer Brian Finkelstein weaves together tales of the US Writers' Strike of 2007 and Haymarket Massacre of 1886 into an ultimately gratifying whole.
| FRINGE WORLD: If you want to have a dream interpreted in an unusual context, this is the show for you; if you are looking for something more theatrical, not so much.
| SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE: The Metropolitan Opera's The Magic Flute, reproduced by Opera Australia, does everything possible to bring it into the 21st century.
| FRINGE WORLD: Poetry and pornography meet in this self-deprecating and shame-filled monologue which pulls us in while trying to push us away.
| ACMI: Julie Moggan's documentary offers a slight and sweet glimpse at romance novel publishers Harlequin Mills & Boon.
| HOYTS: If the success of Man on a Ledge was judged on its adherence to its name, it would be a hit. Sadly, the film disappoints.