Reviews

Performance review: Strictly Barking
This uplifting children’s comedy show features dancing and innocent humour.

Exhibition review: Data Relations, ACCA
What will the future hold? Only data will tell.

Musical review: Spring Awakening, Meat Market Melbourne
An 1891 work returns, with music and revamped with issues relevant to contemporary youth.

Performance review: The Rainbow Tree
An all inclusive look at family and connection in a show created with and about kids in Rainbow families.

Performance review: The Listies Make Some Noise
High-quality children’s entertainment, burps included.

Theatre review: Hamlet, Bogan Shakespeare Productions
Misogyny and incest make way for tinnies and Tim Tams in this bogan adaptation of 'Hamlet'.

Theatre review: Sunday, MTC
The loose boundaries of art and love are explored in this portrait of Heide Museum founder, Sunday Reed.

Opera review: La Bohème, Opera Australia
While Gale Edward's version of the opera goes out with a spectacular bang, this retiring production will endure in people's…

Theatre review: Blue, Belvoir St Theatre
A monologue of a young man navigating life in all its colours.

Theatre review: The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven
A transgender Jesus and a queer retelling of the New Testament makes for a provocative production.