Dann Barber News Today

Musical theatre can get away with being daggy and manipulative but this show pushes it too far – and this remount doesn’t overcome its faults

Dann Barber is a set and costume designer who uses cardboard and second-hand clothes to spin surreal new worlds for the stage.

Bloom unfurls into a multifaceted exploration of institutional living, the grimness of which is offset by Gleisner’s characteristic humour.

<strong>Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne Theatre Company</strong><br>Katie Weston’s songs are effective enough and Gleisner’s lyrics are serviceable, but Bloom comes to life when the excellent cast get to perform all together

This arresting new production of Caryl Churchill’s Far Away makes its dystopian vision seems more prophetic than ever.

It shouldn’t be this easy to take a Soviet-era operetta about a housing crisis and set it in modern-day Melbourne, but that’s what Constantine Costi has done.

This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes The Crocodile, Cruel Intentions the ’90s Musical, Virginia, Not All Dictators, Marlon Williams, and Carmina Burana.

With spiky hot takes on rentier capitalism, cancel culture, fake news and much more, this play based on an unfinished short story by Dostoevsky is filled with delightfully absurd satire – and it’s guillotine sharp.

The post-modern tale of a group of 14th-century actors trying to outrun a pandemic couldn’t be more timely.

Passing Strange is a fun and exuberant production of a Broadway hit, but it suffers from significant sound and staging issues.