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PERTH FESTIVAL: "Meow Meow's The Red Shoes" is a beautifully chaotic and deep stream-of-consciousness cabaret show
A show to savour, and one I wish I could see again soon.
PERTH FESTIVAL: "DRAGON I" is sweet, scaly, and sentimental
Adam is a wonderful performer, whose love for his Dragon interest is carried across in excitement and eagerness.
PERTH FESTIVAL REVIEW: "Haribo Kimchi" serves up a sensory and poignant exploration of migration, identity, and home
Haribo Kimchi is a prismatic, one-of-a-kind experience that tells a deeply personal story many immigrants will recognise, while offering others an intimate window into what it means to carry home within you.
FRINGE REVIEW: IMPROV RPG rolls a natural twenty in the double-finale for Dungeons & Dragons and Call of Cthulhu
Improv RPG is excellent improv theatre, delivered by highly capable performers who fully understand the trappings of the genres they are working within, and who bounce off each other like old friends, spinning outlandish choices into comedic or horrific, gold.
FRINGE REVIEW: "Campfire" blends majestic acrobatics with magnetic mateship
Sit in the front row, if you can get in early enough, and you’ll be amazed at how well these performers can flip, tumble and float around just inches from your face.
FRINGE REVIEW: "The Chair of Saint Peter (& Other Games)" is a hell of a good time
If you pray at the altar of gleeful theatrical chaos, you will leave this play a believer.
FRINGE REVIEW: "SHARK!" is lighting in a bottle
Equal parts silly, sharp, unique and pure fun, SHARK! will have you hooked from the outset.
REVIEW: “Now You See Me Live” leads its illusions with charm, comedy, and heart
At Crown Theatre Perth, Now You See Me Live brings the blockbuster film franchise to the stage, reimagined as a high-energy, family-friendly magic spectacular.
REVIEW: "CATS the Musical" unleashes electric, nostalgic Jellicle chaos in Boorloo Perth
The beauty of CATS is not in layered storytelling, but in its unflinching projection of pure vibes. And boy, does this Australian production deliver.
"Folklore Murder Mystery" bottles mayhem, mischief, and manic fun
Inside Perth’s one-of-a-kind social deduction murder mystery experience
Inside Urinetown: Director Andrew Baker on bringing Perth its most absurd musical yet
“The audience is going to have a ball.”
REVIEW: “O,D,E” is an evocative, inventive gem of experimental theatre
Seeing O,D,E feels like being part of a ritual, closer to an ancient rite than conventional theatre.
INTERVIEW: Choreographer and mentor Tyrone Earl Lraé Robinson on "600 SECONDS: MOVES"
“600 Seconds is like a flight of amuse-bouches; sample-sized bites of dance and theatre works that give you a glimpse into the creative minds of Perth artists.”
REVIEW: "Beauty and the Beast" musical is a spellbinding, spectacular adaptation of a Disney classic
Beauty and the Beast The Musical doesn’t just avoid deviating from the heart of the film; it crystallises the themes, encasing them like the enchanted rose, and makes the revisit feel worthwhile
THEATRE: A Mid-season check-in with the team behind cultural fusion performance piece, “Child”
Through a blend of music, dance, and spoken word, Child is a performance piece that seeks to reignite within us the joy, curiosity, and freedom that often gets eroded by the demands of life.
THEATRE REVIEW: “Never Have I Ever” serves up a sizzling feast of politics, identity, and ego
Lighting, pyrotechnics, and early 2000s pop music are playfully woven together to immerse us in a theatrical montage of a drunken night out, where the tea is spilt and old resentments are finally laid bare.
INTERVIEW: Amri Mrisho on the Return of “How the KKK Saved the Day” and Bold, Satirical Musical Theatre
The satirical musical returns bigger and bolder, running from May 27 - June 14 as part of the main Blue Room Theatre season, with sharper tweaks and a fresh ensemble cast.
THEATRE REVIEW: "Blue" wades through grief with heart and ingenuity
How do you make sense of a life pummeled by love and loss? Blue, the latest production by Black Swan State Theatre, asks us to plunge, heart-first, into this question.
Perth Festival: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s "Manifest" is a spectacular statement about protest
Manifest is a brilliant and powerful statement about power, resistance, the force of protest and how revolutions can go astray. You will not want to miss what promises to be one of Perth Festival’s highlights.