Theatre

Echo: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen review: a beguiling dramatic experiment
An innovative magic carpet ride across time and space.

Melbourne premiere of American Psycho the Musical – prepare to be blood spattered!
The killer banker returns with 'real' blood on stage ... and songs.

Hir review: a play that explores the collision of PTSD and male privilegeÂ
Family and gender politics are explored in this play about identity, belonging and redemption.

Observatory Theatre
Telescope New Writing Program
Calling Queensland based emerging playwrights with big ideas! The Telescope New Writing Program commissions daring, adventurous and imaginative new works…

Scenes from a Yellow Peril reviewed: QPAC show exploring systemic and structural racism
A show that uses verbatim words to depict scenes of violence and racism in Australia and New Zealand.

Annie review: an orphan captures hearts on Australian stages
Annie is a well-orchestrated cohesive theatre production, whose songs are as catchy as ever.

Seymour Centre and Omusubi Productions
The Face of Jizo
In commemoration of 80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

My Cousin Frank review: Rhoda Roberts engages at Arts Centre Melbourne
A tribute to the first Aboriginal person to represent Australia at the Olympics.

Smokescreen review: smoke and mirrors theatre show in Melbourne
Smokescreen shows how tactics developed by the tobacco industry were used by the fossil fuel industry to delay action on…

Waterloo reviewed: Bron Batten does battle at Melbourne's Theatre Works
Waterloo at Theatre Works strides into the battlefield of ideas, politics and contemporary moral dilemmas.