Melbourne
New home for independent arts as Melbourne Fringe takes over Trades Hall
After 17 years at North Melbourne Town Hall, the Fringe is taking over the license of the Trades Hall bar.…
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.