430 stories by "Anne-Marie Peard"
Miss Jugoslavia and The Barefoot Orchestra is a story of confusion, secrecy, bravery, escape and hope told through live and untamed Balkan jazz that’s led by the wildly wonderful Tania…
The Melbourne Festival finished on the weekend, but it's only two weeks until we can celebrate all that is grand and glorious about opera with the Melbourne Ring Festival opening on 15 Novem…
Here’s my list of things that are funnier than The Listies: ummm errr I’m thinking maybe …? Nup more of The Listies Matt Kelly and Richard Higgins are The Listies and they …
Over ten hours with the National Theater of Oklahoma may have ruined theatre for me. Ten hours wasn’t enough. The eventual plan is a 24-hour show, and if the next 14 hours are as joyfu…
Urban Chamber – Beyond is young people from Melbourne's northern and western suburbs telling their own stories in a combination of rap, chamber music and dance. The groups from Outer U…
We’re here to tell you one of your Dreamtime stories and make it one of ours. Kamahi Djordon King’s Fool had me from those words.  The Shadow King is the King Lear stor…
No one makes theatre like The Rabble do. It’s like co-creators Emma Valente and Kate Davis take the concept of theatre and re-create it into something that looks like theatre, but feel…
I think there is something fascinating about teenage behaviour. I think it's fascinating that adults are repulsed by it, or troubled by it, as though we didn't do the same thing then or don'…
Adam J A Cass’s Roam was developed through the Red Stitch Writers Program. Like his very successful I Love You, Bro (first seen at the 2007 Fringe), it’s about rem…
In Spite Of Myself, starring Nicola Gunn, conceived by Nicola Gunn and directed by Nicola Gunn, is all about Nicola Gunn. We know this because Nicola Gunn keeps telling us. But the show quic…
Ballarat's second annual cabaret festival kicks off on Thursday with a sold-out opening gala. Over four nights, from 10 to 13 October, some of the best cabaret artists can be see in 14 shows…
It’s impossible to not adore Eddie Perfect. He sings and dances like an entire 1930s Hollywood musical, he has the best hair and he lets us laugh and cringe at the best and the worst o…
It’s the third weekend of the Melbourne Fringe, which means it’s your last chance to see some of the best and most curious of independent art and artists. Fringe is art without a…
It’s Tuesday night at the Melbourne Fringe, which means cheap tickets for most shows. As always, take the risk and choose something you know nothing about, but today’s recommenda…
One of the many things I’m loving about this year’s Fringe is the amount of full houses. I saw two shows on Friday night where there wasn’t a spare seat. In other words, do…
It’s the second Friday of the Melbourne Fringe, so it’s time to plan for another weekend of constant theatre going. Today’s choices are musicals and cabarets (and a show pe…
I thought Kids Killing Kids was astonishing; the friend I saw it with was astonished that I even applauded at the end.  We’re not the only people experiencing such a chasm of …
My biggest Fringe fear is being the only person to turn up (it has happened), but  it’s been full houses all weekend. In the Hub and other Fringe theatres, audiences are taking chan…
The Melbourne Fringe is officially open and choosing Fringe shows is a daunting task that makes voting below the line simple. Trusting reviews can be a bit like voting above the line and hop…
“Dance for me, Salome!” Never has Oscar Wilde been so gay " and he was in prison for sodomy and gross indecency when his play Salome was first performed in 1896. Little…
Singin' In the Rain is a feel good musical production guaranteed to stir your laughter and get your toes tapping to those familiar tunes immortalised by the 1952 film of the same name, starr…
Today’s the last chance to see Mein Kampf at La Mama. It’s been sold out for days, but you never know your luck if you turn up at the door and put your name on the waiting …
There’s no maybe about it; night maybe is a must. Stuck Pig’s Squealing are consistently a bit awesome and this new work by writer Kit Brookman is as beautiful as it is …
Circa take circus to a whole new level as they open a curiosity cabinet of physical mastery that is irreverent, sexy, turbulent, breathtaking and at times laugh out loud funny. There is alwa…
At the end of Savages, I had to joke about hoping that no one sees it on a first date because it was too uncomfortable to talk about its content.  Walking into 45downstairs, a s…
