Review: Akmal Saleh (Perth Comedy Festival)
A regular on a cut of Australian TV shows and active since the '90s, Akmal brought his cheek to the comedy-starved west last week as part of the Perth Comedy…
REVIEW: Cats
Tom Durkin reviews 'Cats the Musical', hot off Lloyd Weber's London West End revival. You jellicle? Delta Goodrem had to look like a pert angelic judge of mediocrity on 'The…
Review: The Riders (West Australian Opera)
Nicholas Monisse reviews WA Opera's stage adaptation of Tim Winton's 'The Riders', and finds it magnificent.
Review: Revealed
"As I read the background for each artist, I learnt of their lives, and the communities and country they were connected to. Some had discovered their art early in life,…
Review: The Little Prince
Upon arriving at the Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, I stood wide-eyed in the foyer, throwing nervous glances at the large, lifeless figurines staring down from above me. I took my…
Review: Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories
Following the company's superb adaptations of 'The Rabbits' and 'The Red Tree', Barking Gecko brings another children's story to the stage with 'Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories'. Gabriella Loo sheds…
Review: Picnic at Hanging Rock (Black Swan State Theatre Company)
Fresh off a Melbourne stage, the production opened at the Malthouse Theatre in March before venturing here. At 90 minutes (no interval), the ambiguous ending to this thriller will have…
Review: Pindorama
"The show is one of the strangest dance pieces I have ever seen, but one I haven’t stopped talking about since. It’s intriguing, uncomfortable and certainly different from traditional notions…
REVIEW: The Last Stand
"It’s a pretty cool concept when you think about it: two hours of undeterred personalities voicing their wild thoughts and ideas in front of an exposed audience who are willing…
Interview: Words with Blazing Swan 2016
Nothing should be more clandestine than a crazy party. It is the only way to prevent society’s most judgmental from trying to turn up and ruining everyone else’s readiness to…