Melbourne Reviews

Details: Paul Kooperman; 11 October 2007

It’s awkward, funny, occasionally poignant, honest and full of peoples’ ‘porky pies’, which are gradually revealed, at all the wrong times, over the course of the evening.

Details: Georgia Fox; 09 October 2007

Spencer McLaren is a committed actor, fully committed. So is his character, Sam, who we see struggling to breakthrough the cut-throat New York entertainment industry.

Details: Paul Kooperman; 05 October 2007

The score is vibrant, powerful, but so distinctive in style and arrangement that, after a while, one gets the feeling one’s heard a song or musical phrase before.

Details: Stephanie Glickman; 05 October 2007

Like many famous musicals, 42nd Street is light on plot but heavy on the entertainment. The Production Company’s current rendition of it is a fun and fantastic hit.

Details: Jan Chandler; 05 October 2007

Intimate Apparel | High Performance Company

Intimate Apparel takes the audience on a satiric romp through fads and fashions in the arts from the 80s and 90s, till the present.

Details: Lola MacMillan; 03 October 2007

Kyria in ‘Stark Raving Dad’ is a promising one-woman show that wears its heart firmly on its sleeve.

Details: Lola MacMillan; 03 October 2007

Seasons of Keene – Below the Line features two short plays written by Daniel Keene. Unfortunately this production is an example of when good plays go bad.

Details: Jessica Thomson; 02 October 2007

Californian comedian Arj Barker is practically an honorary Australian – a Melbourne Comedy Festival regular for the last decade, it seems he can't get enough of the place

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