Art Smitten

Aunty Donna’s new show hits the MICF under the title Big Boys, a show about boys, who are now big. The title is more than just a gag or joke to go with the show. The title incidentally refers to the three boys who are Aunty Donna, who have now become big after years of being together as a group; Mark Bonanno, Broden Kelly and Zachary Ruane. The three are perfect for each other, and after yea...

Smithers and Christian chat to artist Cameron Moorhouse, one of the finalists from the 2017 VCE Top Arts exhibition, whose work, Extinction , will be on display at the Ian Potter Centre until July 16. Click here to listen to our interview with Miranda Picton-Warlow, manager of the VCE Season of Excellence and Sia Smyth, the curator of  Top Designs  2017. See omnystudio.com...

Smithers and Christian interview Erin Taylor and Sarah Edwards from Phantasmagoria , a free site-responsive festival produced by the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, running on weekends until the end of April in the Bogong Alpine Village. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christina, Rachela and Katie chat Ginger and Tonic Founder and Music Director Jane Patterson and ensemble member Laura Burzacott, from the A Capella group Ginger and Tonic, about their Melbourne International Comedy Festival show  Desperate and Dateless , running from 30 March - 9 April at the Coopers Malthouse on 113 Sturt Street, Southbank. Image from James Terry Ph...

Adalya, Daniel and Christian from Queeries chat to Gavin Roach about his Melbourne International Comedy Festival Show,  All The Songs I Can't Sing . Click here to listen to Hamish's review. Photo by Julyan Stephens See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I haven’t been too a lot of shows when the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is on, but this year I’m starting off strong by seeing both big and smaller shows that the festival has to offer. To kick this season off, I checked out the preview show of Gavin Roach’s All The Songs I Can't Sing, a just under 50 minute show that is about just that; all the songs that Gavin Roach...

Smithers chatted with Malaysian comedian Douglas Lim who’ll be performing in Comedy Zone Asia  (which Smithers also reviewed ) at the Melbourne Town Hall, and in his own solo show, This Is Nice , at the Greek Centre at 7pm on April 18 & 19. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christian chatted with the South African comedian about his Melbourne International Comedy Festival show Dude, Where’s My Lion?  on at the Melbourne Town Hall until April 23. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stellar Project is a premier dance work by Prue Lang, it is an hour long contemporary dance piece, with 5 performers. It was presented in several parts, first was a dimly lit gentle dance piece, then the lights came up and the dances congratulated each other saying good job etc etc, like they had just finished a improve or something in a dance class, they then took turns performing solo dances and...

Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting is a one of a kind movie; back when it was released it was different, new and explosive, something not many had ever seen before. The same can be said for the stage adaptation, Trainspotting Live, which is literally in your face the entire way through. It takes immersive to a new level. If you’re a fan of the movie then you might be pretty confused when firs...

Hamish and Christian chat with Gavin Ross from the cast of the truly immersive theatre show  Trainspotting Live , now on at fortyfivedownstairs until April 13. Click here to listen to Hamish's review of the show See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Adalya, Daniel and Jim interview director Miki Oikawa, Tenor Hew Wagner and Dancer/Actor Arisa Yura about Lyric Opera’s Australian premier production of The Japanese Princess. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Deep Sea Dances was a new contemporary dance work by Rebecca Jensen. The performance space is in The Stables are Arts Houses’ Meat Market, we entered into a large space with beautiful projections on the walls, we were asked to remove our shoes and socks and entered into another large space in the building, the floor was covered with squishy plastic and there were chairs and pillows either side of...

Daniel, Adalya and Jim chat to Tara Jade Samaya, the “Dance Captain” of Chunky Move’s ANTI GRAVITY , on at the Malthouse Theatre from March 17-26 as part of the Dance Massive Festival. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gill and Daniel chat to Sammy J about this new solo show  Hero Complex , playing in the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival at the Victoria Hotel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Piece for person and Ghetto Blaster is an experimental dance work by Nicola Gunn. This work has had seasons all across Australia and overseas. It is a story of a man and woman and a duck. Piece for person and Ghetto Blaster goes for about and hour and a half and Nicola is on stage the entire time, constantly dancing and telling the story. Nicola is an absolutely phenomenal performer, just like not...

Waiting in dark anticipation in La Mama theatre with foreboding music in the background, you could sense the experience of the director, Lloyd Jones, in non-text based performance theatre. Windows, written by Ayse Bayra-moglu, is a new work which has undertaken some swift development from play-reading to fully mounted performance in the last year. It still retains the casual essence of play-readin...

Rebi, Jim and Molly interview Rachael Beesley a solo violinist and musical director, performing in Italian Romance, an upcoming concert from the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, taking place at the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall of the Melbourne Recital Centre (MRC) on Friday March 24 and the City Recital Hall, Angel Place in Sydney on Saturday 25 March (both at 7.30pm) featuring Beethoven and M...

Adalya and Daniel chat to Jessica Wilson about her new theatre show Passenger , which takes place on us a bus tour, departing from Footscray Community Arts Centre Thursday-Saturday and from the Arts Centre on Sunday. The show runs from March 23-26 as part of the Women of the World Festival Melbourne. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Adalya and Daniel chat to Miranda Picton-Warlow, manager of the VCE Season of Excellence and Sia Smyth, the curator of  Top Designs  2017, which will be on display at Melbourne Museum from 18 March – 16 July 2017. Click here to listen to our interview with Cameron Moorhouse, one of the artists from  Top Arts 2017. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ben interviews film director Rebecca Zlotowski about her latest feature, Planetarium, starring Lily-Rose Depp and Natalie Portman, which is being screened in the Alliance Française French Film Festival. Click here to listen to our interview with the festival's Artistic Director, Philippe Platel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gill interviews Megan Patty, the organiser of the Melbourne Art Book Fair, which runs from March 16-19. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David Stratton is a pioneer in both critiquing films, and Australian films themselves. If you ever want to be a critic, you should take a good look at some of Stratton’s reviews, as they emphasis what is important about filmmaking, and how to perfectly break it down, dissect it, and give a professional opinion. David Stratton: A Cinematic Life, reveals a lot more about the man behind a criti...

Molly and Rebi interview Susan Provan, the director of the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, running from March 29 - April 23. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Logan is the brand new marvel film under the banner of 20th Century Fox, adding to the long running series of X-Men Films. Logan concludes the trilogy of Wolverine, the two previous films, X-Men Origins: Wolverine , and The Wolverine , being mildly successful, but for the most part not critically rated very highly. This all changes with Logan , which has been met with massive praise, easily trumpi...