Melbourne Reviews

Details: Carol Middleton; 19 May 2007

Guy is still a number one Idol, charming and charismatic. His manner onstage was confident, relaxed, happy and self-effacing.

Details: Simon Piening; 19 May 2007

Somewhat ironically, given the nature of the play, Bell Shakespeare’s current production of Macbeth suffers from a distinct lack of ambition.

Details: Nic Velissaris; 18 May 2007

Knowledge is a dangerous thing. If you have too little then you don’t fully understand what’s happening around you, there’s no proper context, but if you have too much then you’re likely to draw false conclusions or to take things for granted.

Details: Nic Velissaris; 18 May 2007

Meet Blasko Tupper, she’s not your ordinary teenager. Her parents are extremely eccentric, mad-scientists-a- part-of-a-secret-society kind of eccentric, but this time they’ve gone too far.

Details: Jan Chandler; 12 May 2007

Dark secrets, fear, suppressed sexuality, ghosts: Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts has it all; all the things we expect from a good ghost story and more.

Details: Carol Middleton; 07 May 2007

Judging from his performance at the Hamer Hall on Saturday, Corea, at the age of 65, has lost none of the energy and urge to innovate that has always marked his stellar musicianship.

Details: Kellie Heywood; 07 May 2007

Office romance: it can be brutal, pathetic, funny, deeply unfair and ultimately, in the hands of Blue Chair Theatre, very entertaining.

Details: Nic Velissaris; 03 May 2007

Frank Bren’s A History of Motion Pictures is a fast and furious theatrical shadow play of films and film-making in the early twentieth century, that rockets along at a great rate like an early silent film.

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