Blending Parisian jazz into the kind of classy, carefully wardrobed group that would give most folk bands a run for their money, Parlour Games proves pleasant and smooth entertainment for the night. Singer Biddy Frank guides the audience through the night’s repertoire, detailing her own travels and experiences with the music performed as a narrative […]

Doll heads suspended in gelatine, computer interface graphics emerging in a black lit room, enormous cardboard structures adorned by plastic toys and the delicate imprint of flora in glass – these four extremely diverse exhibitions are currently on show at the Yarra Sculpture Gallery. Leonie Ryan’s Disturbed Habitats is a series of drawings and sculptures […]

Pure improvisation is a difficult craft to master. By its very nature, it’s a skill which is constantly being refined and developed to no end.  Almost everyone, not just trained actors, has experienced that moment of terror where you are forced to trust your instincts and follow through on an idea which has had mere […]

From underneath the half-opened roller door, a strange green glow reaches across the street pavement. Melancholy music befitting a long ago circus wafts into the graffiti-laden dead end street where a crowd wait impatiently. At last, they’re invited to duck into the abandoned quilt factory and find their seats, ready for A Grim Era, the […]

Here is a play that every activist, racist, historian, student, business man, and housewife – in fact, every citizen – should see, produced by a company which is continually raising the bar for student theatre. Fregmento Stokes, writer of the outstanding 2008 musical Melbourne Model: The Musical, has outdone himself with his latest piece 1938: […]