As You Like It is Shakespeare’s most luminous pastoral, anchored by his most charming creation. Fair Rosalind is by far the playwright’s wittiest female character, and in this regard gives even Falstaff a run for his mon...

Painted From Memory, the 1998 album by Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello, stands as some of the finest work ever by either of those songwriters, and therefore, some of the finest ever examples of artful, heartfelt pop so...

There’s something very special about going to a show in a venue that makes you feel like you’re part of the story. In Between the Bars, a new piece from Sunny Koll about five women in a New York jazz club, we have just t...

Q44 is part of the growing wave of ensemble theatre companies emerging in Melbourne. They produce the plays they want to perform, they cast from within the ranks of the ensemble and, in theory, they develop an inbuilt co...

Anyone expecting Rolling Thunder Vietnam to be just another loud head-banging rock concert is in for a surprise. Yes there is loud rock music, but in this show it is beautifully arranged and produced so that you can hear...

On the front page of the original score of The Magic Flute, Mozart noted that the setting was Egypt. This was all the encouragement director, Michael Gow needed to come up with this deliciously silly adaptation, which mo...

There’s something fantastical and yet eerily ordinary about the events that unfold when Wisconsin dairy farmers Emma and Frank welcome out-of-town Haynes to their home. The young man literally makes sparks fly at the bri...

Keep Everything is one of those shows that leaves you wondering if we have enough words in our vocabulary to suit the kind of pieces that are emerging from some of our contemporary performance makers. Shifting seamlessly...