What's on this week? 5 December

What's on this week? 5 December

This week the amazing B52s proved that you're never too old, our adorable Tim Minchen sold out The Palais and I haven't been home to write!

If you're looking for something to see tonight, there's Spontaneous Broadway for a no-risk fab night out (with, as confirmed by The Age, Melbourne's coolest thing - Julia Zemiro) , or The Oracle if you want some serious art to make you jaw hit the floor or Short and Sweet Week Three might turn out to be a winner.

Spontaneous Broadway
Comedy Theatre
If you haven't seen this yet - do. If you have - I'll see you there.
2007 review. 2008 review.
2009 is just as brilliant.
Last show tonight (Saturday 5)

The Oracle
Malthouse Theatre and The Sydney Opera House
If you love dance, you will not forgive yourself if you miss it. Simply astonishing but it finishes tomorrow (Sunday 6).
review

Short and Sweet
Chapel on Chapel
Final week! The festival is still great, even if the general feeling is that the writing needs a kick up the bum.
Week Three, Top 30 wasn't bad. The final is on Sunday (6) and the best together will be a pretty good night.
Week One, Top 30
Week Two, Top 30
Week Three, Top 30
Short and Sweet reviews 2006-08

Charles Dickens Performs A Christmas Carol
Eagles Nest Theatre
Phil Zachiriah IS Charles Dickens. I've seen it twice and think it's brilliant. Or just see it to remember how a great story teller tells a story.
review

On Ego
Red Stitch
If you saw Grace at the MTC earlier in the year, you have to see this work by Mick Gordon - and see how his words can be told in a very different way.
Until 19 December.
review

The Flood
La Mama
The perfectly wonderful Jackie Smith (The Burlesque Hour etc) wrote this. I can't wait.
DO NOT MISS IT. It may be the best thing I've seen this year.
3-20 December
review

1989
St Martins Youth Arts Centre
Four short plays based on the ancient world of 20 years ago. Great chance to see some of our best young writers and performers.


One is Warm in Winter, the Other Has a Better View
PlatformYouth Theatre aim to be  the most innovative and inclusive theatre company in Melbourne for people aged 16 to 26. This show looks at faith.
I really enjoyed it.
fortyfivedownstairs
until 13 December
review

What's on this week? 27 November 2009

What's on this Week?
27 November 2009

Malthouse Theatre is the place to be if you're looking for some bloody fine theatre this weekend. If I had to pick between Africa and Structure and Sadness, I'd say see both.  Which still leaves a couple of nights next week to see everything else.

Africa
My Darling Patricia
Malthouse Theatre
I think it's the best thing My Darling Patricia have done - and I love everything I've seen MDP do.
review
It finishes on Sunday.

Structure and Sadness
Malthouse Theatre and Lucy Guerin Inc
Stunning telling of a Melbourne story. Kind of show that makes me understand dance.
review
It also finishes on Sunday.


Short and Sweet
Chapel on Chapel
We're into week two, with Wildcards on Saturday afternoon.
Week One, Top 30
Week Two, Top 30
Short and Sweet reviews 2006-08

On Ego
Red Stitch
If you saw Grace at the MTC earlier in the year, you have to see this work by Mick Gordon - and see how his words can be told in a very different way.
Until 19 December.
review

Spontaneous Broadway
Comedy Theatre
If you haven't seen this yet - do. If you have - I'll see you there. If you don't hurt from laughing, check that you aren't dead.
2007 review. 2008 review.
2-5 December only

The Oracle
Malthouse Theatre and The Sydney Opera House
Back in the 90s Meryl Tankard helped define Australian contemporay dance.
Only running from 2-6 December, so  there's no time to wait and see what people think.

The Flood
La Mama
The perfectly wonderful Jackie Smith (The Burlesque Hour etc) wote this. I can't wait.
3-20 December

1989
St Martins Youth Arts Centre
Four short plays based on the ancient world of 20 years ago. Great chance to see some of our best young writers and performers.

(And,for us who remember 1989 , there's the B52s on Thursday night. I hope Fred still plays the tambourine.)

What's on this week? 23 November

What's on this week? 23 November

Africa
My Darling Patricia
Malthouse Theatre
Malthouse commissed this one, which runs until 29 November.
I loved it.

Short and Sweet
Chapel on Chapel
You never know what will turn up
Week One, Top 30
Short and Sweet reviews 2006-08

On Ego
Red Stitch
It's rare to see a dud from Red Stitch.
Until 19 December.
review

Structure and Sadness
Malthouse Theatre and Lucy Guerin Inc
This premiered at MIAF 2006 and won a stack of awards.
Short season, 25-29 November

What's on this week? 13 November

What's On This Week: November13

December in Melbourne without the Speigeltent is a bit strange, but it gives us time to see other things.

Pretty Baby
Friday 13 Novemer ONLY
MTC,  Lawler Studio
A playreading of Declan Greene's latest, commissioned by the MTC's Young and Emerging Artists program with Anne Browning, Georgina Capper, Francis Greenslade and Peter Houghton. What a cast!

14 November
And it was terrific! Dec is fearless, but his absurd (and Absurd) content always comes from and returns to the most delicate observation of our lives. Who else could have every women (and most of the men) in the audience empathising with a gelatinous blob and a swamp woman.

Africa
My Darling Patricia
Malthouse Theatre
Malthouse commissed this one, which runs until 29 November.
review

Trio
fortyfivedownstairs
Finishes on Sunday 15 November.
If you rightly love how Yvonne Virsik directs.
review

Diane Peters Trio
Sunday 15 November
Jazz Harp
Bennetts Lane

Short and Sweet
Chapel on Chapel
The annual short play festival has moved venues, but there's still three weeks of short plays. Some will be crap, some will be brilliant.

Mikelangelo and the Tin Star
Order of Melbourne
Friday 20 December
I haven't seen Mikelangelo's new posse, but how could they not be great?