live performance
Music review: Day Tripper, RISING Festival, Melbourne Town Hall
It’s rare for a festival to have both strong acts and organisation, 'Day Tripper' ticks all the boxes.
Theatre review: Blackout Songs, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre
A two-handler about alcoholism and memory.
Performance review: ANITO, RISING Festival, Arts House
Costume, puppetry, drag, dance and experimental electronic music combine to interrogate colonial wrongs.
Music review: Southern Cross Soloists: Perfumes of the East, QPAC
A last-minute program change impacted this carefully crafted concert of the Southern Cross Soloists.Â
Theatre review: Multiple Bad Things, Merlyn Theatre, Malthouse
Back to Back's latest production presents another layered look at the intersectional experience of people with a disability.
Theatre review: Ghosts, Theatre Works
A new iteration of Ibsen's work retains the core, but moves the action from Norway to the Australian outback.
Music review: Devonté Hynes, Sydney Opera House
Complementing his earlier work as Blood Orange, this classical music concert showed the multi-talented musician's impressive range.
Theatre review: Ink, New Theatre
New Theatre makes a good fist of James Graham’s play about Rupert Murdoch’s first forays into Fleet Street.Â
Performance review: Club Vegas: The Spectacle, Athenaeum
All the ritz and glitz of Vegas in this variety show.
Musical review: Sunset Boulevard, Princess Theatre
A woefully miscast Sarah Brightman derails this production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, which also features some baffling directorial choices.