Reviewed March 2024 for Theatre Matters.

“Who runs the world? GIRLS”

There is nothing more so evident in 2024 than the current surge of girl power we are seeing globally. From Beyonce to Barbie to Taylor Swift to the incredible Australian female sporting achievements, the world is bathed and pink…and green.

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Reviewed March 2024 for Theatre Matters.

Chicago. The 1920s. The Jazz Age. The dawn of the “celebrity criminal” – where the crime (and justice) itself is overshadowed by glitz, glamour and a good story.

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Reviewed January 2024 for Theatre Matters.

Anyone who is from the UK or has visited will tell you that the local pub can often be the heartbeat of a town (or village). For me, it was Bartons Mill in Basingstoke, a charming place by a stream which I walked to through a country field. For the nine men that make up the “Choir of Man”, it is The Jungle.

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Reviewed October 2023 for Theatre Matters.

Mamma Mia…here we go again! Making its third decade appearance, Mamma Mia! The Musical is back after its 2001-2005, 2009-2010 and 2017-2018 productions.

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Reviewed June 2023 for Theatre Matters.

What better way to follow-up from the musical theatre Christmas (aka the Tony Awards) than to celebrate the songs we know, some we may not know, but definitely love with a Broadway Diva, otherwise known as Olivia Ruggiero.

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Reviewed February 2023 for Theatre Matters.

Whilst the magical English nanny Mary Poppins is known and loved globally, she could be considered a true blue Aussie. Not only was her creator P. L. Travers born in Maryborough, Queensland (as was I and a few generations of my family) but her stage producer, Sir Cameron Mackintosh (Cats, Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera), wrote the first draft of the stage version in Australia.

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Reviewed December 2022 for Theatre Matters.

“The One With the Review”

🎶 So no one told you life was gonna be this way…clap clap clap clap.

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Originally reviewed April 2022 for Theatre People.

Have you ever really really looked forward to a show that was really really entertaining on TV but in real life was really really disappointing?

That is how I felt about the 2022 edition of RocKwiz’s Really Really Good Friday.

Originally reviewed March 2022 for Theatre People.

The city…New York, New York.

The year…unknown.

The mystery….The Case of the Spiky Turtle.

Welcome to Improvised Noir, presented as part of the The Big HOO-HAA! Melbourne’s Saturday Experiment, and to a world of glamour, crime, passion – all improvised!