Melbourne live reviews
Women strive to define themselves in this love letter to the words the dictionary leaves out
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes The Dictionary of Lost Words at Arts Centre Melbourne, 7 Captiva Road, and the 3MBS Marathon.
- by Cameron Woodhead and Barney Zwartz
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P!nk gets the party started with her own acrobatic carnival
Sassy, bold, and happy to belt out her hits from a flying trapeze, it could only be P!nk, back in town for yet another run of stadium extravaganzas.
- by Will Cox
★★★★★
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All musical theatre lovers should see this show at least once
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Rent at the State Theatre, The Crying Room: Exhumed, Greentea Peng, Cuddle, and Queens of the Stone Age.
- by Cameron Woodhead, Andrew Fuhrmann, Vyshnavee Wijekumar and Nadia Bailey
The eerie fairytale offering up a surreal exploration of grief
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes MTC’s Meet Me at Dawn, Brodie Murray’s The Whisper, The Duchess of Malfi, and Blink-182’s return to Melbourne.
- by Cameron Woodhead and Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Flop to smash hit: Sumptuous, talent-packed Bernstein musical goes the whole ham
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes four five-star shows within one week – including one that hasn’t been seen on our stages since the ’80s.
- by Bridget Davies, Jessica Nicholas, Cameron Woodhead, Tony Way and Andrew Fuhrmann
★★★★
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We’d need to see Groundhog Day over and over to write the perfect review
For us, there’s always tomorrow, and this lively black rom-com does make you appreciate the beauty and the curse of living one day after another.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Thought-provoking and peppered with dry wit, this is a play that cannot be ignored
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Overflow, The Breeders, Queer as Flux, Home Economics, Louis Tomlinson at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, and more.
- by Cameron Woodhead, Will Cox, Tony Way and Vyshnavee Wijekumar
No serious theatre lover should miss this epic event
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes The Inheritance at fortyfivedownstairs, On the Uncertainty of Signs, Malevo, and Gracie Abrams at the Forum.
- by Cameron Woodhead, Sonia Nair, Andrew Fuhrmann and Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Veteran actors play teenagers in a show that is both comedic and poignant
This wrap of shows includes Seventeen; Dog Man: The Musical; Neil Gaiman and FourPlay; Peter Cat Recording Co.; Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus; and more.
- by Cameron Woodhead, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Andrew Fuhrmann and Jessica Nicholas
It’s got groove, it’s got meaning: Yes, Grease is (still) the word
This wrap of shows includes Grease, Fantastic Mr Fox, Harold Lopez-Nussa, Circus 1903, The Choir of Man, and the Peninsula Summer Music Festival.
- by Cameron Woodhead, Jessica Nicholas, Andrew Fuhrmann, Sonia Nair and Tony Way
Victorian Opera reaches for the stars with Galileo
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Richard Mills’ Galileo, Nessa Barrett, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and Hannah Gadsby’s Banana Palace.
- by Bridget Davies, Vyshnavee Wijekumar, Tony Way, Cameron Woodhead and Andrew Fuhrmann