Chanella Macri News Today

An overview of the recent Australian Performing Arts Forum 2023, held in Meanjin/Brisbane.

‘Lele’ traces the lives of a Samoan-Australian family with resonating messages on drill music, community and trauma.

I’ve spent the past three decades trying to deal with, escape, reconcile, and embrace its great importance to me.

I’ve spent the past three decades trying to deal with, escape, reconcile, and embrace its great importance to me.

<strong>Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne<br></strong>Chanella Macri is bolshy and brash as Josie Alibrandi – one of several excellent performances in this adaptation of Melina Marchetta’s young adult novel

Apart from the film released in 2000, author Melina Marchetta has fiercely guarded Alibrandi, rejecting all offers to adapt it – until now.

Melina Marchetta has finally allowed a stage adaption to be made of her beloved 1992 novel, Looking For Alibrandi. 

Melina Marchetta had long said no to a stage adaptation of her much-loved book - until Stephen Nicolazzo came calling.

A stage adaptation of Melina Marchetta's famous 1992 novel 'Looking For Alibrandi' is coming to Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre this July.

A new stage adaptation of Melina Marchetta’s classic spins the Italian Australian experience into a universal story of otherness, family and freedom