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Mary Poppins review [Melbourne 2023]

By Simon Parris on February 4, 2023 • ( 8 Comments )

The Australian Ballet School: Summer Season with Butterfly 2022 review

By Simon Parris on December 10, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Friends the Musical Parody review [Melbourne]

By Simon Parris on December 1, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat review [Melbourne 2022]

By Simon Parris on November 24, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

A Christmas Carol review [Melbourne 2022]

By Simon Parris on November 23, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

& Juliet review [Broadway]

By Simon Parris on November 20, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Gertrude Opera: As One review

By Simon Parris on January 24, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Gertrude Opera heralds the new decade with the modern American opera As One, a heartfelt work as timely as it is elegiac.

Opera and Ballet Year in Review 2019

By Simon Parris on December 27, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

Melbourne continues to enjoy a well-balanced opera program of large and smaller scale productions featuring a wide array of local and international artists.

Musical Theatre Year in Review 2019

By Simon Parris on December 20, 2019 • ( 4 Comments )

Even with two of its main theatres not available for musicals, Melbourne still enjoyed a healthy musical theatre scene in 2019.

Chicago review [Melbourne 2019]

By Simon Parris on December 20, 2019 • ( 4 Comments )

Set to dazzle and divert, the Broadway revival of Chicago returns for its third Melbourne sentence with as sexy and sinewy a company of dancers as could possibly be wished for.

Victorian Opera: The Barber of Seville review

By Simon Parris on December 13, 2019 • ( 4 Comments )

Victorian Opera rings in the festive season with a very merry concert staging of delectably melodious opera buffa The Barber of Seville.

The Australian Ballet School: Summer Season 2019 review

By Simon Parris on December 7, 2019 • ( 3 Comments )

As a sampler of the bountiful work of The Australian Ballet School, Summer Season 2019 capably demonstrates the depth of talent and attention to detail that set the School apart.

Opera Australia: Faust review [Melbourne 2019]

By Simon Parris on November 28, 2019 • ( 5 Comments )

In a production as spectacularly staged as it is intelligently conceived, Faust is another mighty achievement from Opera Australia, demonstrating the full extent of their resources to sterling effect.

Legally Blonde review [Melbourne 2019]

By Simon Parris on November 24, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Irresistible guilty pleasure Legally Blonde returns in a blue-chip boutique production anchored by a dazzling star turn from Samm Hagen as everyone’s favourite pretty-in-pink law student, little Miss Woods, Elle.

Melbourne Theatre Company: Kiss of The Spider Woman review

By Simon Parris on November 23, 2019 • ( 6 Comments )

The extraordinary quality of Kiss of the Spider Woman belies the eight-year gap since Melbourne Theatre Company produced a Broadway musical as part of their mainstage season. The dark, dazzling adult musical […]

Music Theatre Melbourne: Electric Dreams review

By Simon Parris on November 21, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

In an auspicious world premiere season, Music Theatre Melbourne takes audiences back to the garishly colourful 1980s in Electric Dreams, a new Australian musical based on the cultish 1984 film.

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