Melbourne

Review: 33 Variations, Comedy Theatre
Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Golden Star winning actress Ellen Burstyn makes her Australian stage debut, a centrepiece of the show…

Book Review: Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany
The strange and dangerous psychological space Tiffany inhabits focuses on small details that make up the whole.

Book Review: What I Like About Me by Jenna Guillaume
Guillaume's debut YA novel chooses to uplift rather than shoot teenagers in a barrel. And that's laudable.

Review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Princess Theatre, Melbourne
Presented as two full-length plays, which audiences can see on consecutive nights or back to back on the same day,…

Review: Swell 4.0 – Music as Medicine
A live-music experience that puts you front and centre of making, listening, sharing and reminiscing about music that moves.

Review: I'm Not Running, National Theatre Live
David Hare's latest is flat and disappointing.

How a new generation is preserving culture for the future
The University of Melbourne’s Master of Cultural Materials Conservation equips students with high-level technical skills and trains them in cultural…

Acknowledging past trauma through healing art practices
A new exhibition asks how we can regain control over the residues of past trauma through personal memories and local…

Review: Don't Be a C***: This is How, The Butterfly Club
A troubling piece of theatre that struggles to deliver.

Review: Beside Myself by Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Beside Myself is fiction at its highest purpose – a debut novel that comes straight from the gates like a…