Reviews
Performance Reviews: HIGH PONY, LOOPS, Black Widow, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Four Melbourne Fringe Festival works show the range on offer, from comedy to circus, cabaret and street tours.
Dance review: Angela Goh Axe Arch Echo, AGNSW
Goh's meta-narrative of obstruction and negative space projected intrigue in fearful symmetry.
Theatre review: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, Belvoir St Theatre
Every element of this journey into the closing stages of Billie Holiday's life and career is entrancing from start to…
Theatre review: The Paper Escaper, Theatre Royal Studio, Hobart
The Paper Escaper follows the adventures of a character who wants to leave a pop-up book and write their own…
Performance reviews: The Hotline, Poet No.7 and Zaffé, Melbourne Fringe Festival
An on-demand pregnancy hotline, post-apocalyptic Melbourne and reimagining of a traditional Lebanese wedding at Melbourne Fringe 2023.
Performance review: Elvis: A Musical Revolution, Athenaeum Theatre
With two rock and pop musicals opening in Melbourne on the same night, a show about the King manages to…
Comedy review: Tight Mums, Loose Units, Trades Hall, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Hysterical tongue-in-cheek Tight Mums dishing the dirt on married life and divorce.
Book review: Fake Heroes, Otto English
Fake Heroes features 10 notable people from history's pages, and reveals what they were really like.
Performance review: Tender, the Vault, Sydney Fringe Festival
This circus cabaret hybrid explores a disassembling of gender constructs in its fluid meld of bodies.
Exhibition review: Liam Young: Planetary Redesign, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia
As climate chaos ignites more panic, drastic measures are presented to completely reimagine the planet’s future.