Reviews

When he was a lad iOTA craved a drum set but his parents, worried about the neighbours, instead gave him an acoustic guitar. He says he was so angry, he laid a curse on them - that their oldest son would be homosexual and super-talented.

iOTA kicks off a season of 15 star singers, each playing a solo show, through November in Cabaret at Teatro, bringing welcome nightlife to the foyer and convivial theatre in Leichhardt’s long troubled Italian Forum.

It is rare that we have the pleasure of witnessing the World Premiere of a new musical in Perth, but Roundhouse Theatrical Company’s brand-new Monopoly is pleasing capacity audiences at Old Mill Theatre.

Monopoly developed from then WAAPA Composition student Jasper Cruden’s graduation recital, where he presented a 9-song musical. Pairing with Ian Tassicker, the musical now features 42 original pieces of music in a full-length show. 

Do you believe in love and romance – at any age? Then you need to meet Frankie and Johnny at Ad Astra’s newest intimate theatre – Pluto. And to open this new creative space, the team could not have chosen a better play – or better performers. Deftly selected by the play’s director, Fiona Kennedy, this cosy two-hander, set in a New York apartment in the mid-1980s, brings out the best in the up-close-and-personal Pluto.

“You put the boom-boom in my heart

"You send my soul sky high … “

Singin’ and swingin’ Bob Downe is ‘whamming” his way around the country with a 40 year celebration that is just as fancy and funny as every one of his shows – and I’ve seen a few! Is it really 40 years since a young teenage DJ called Mark Trevorrow created a zany character who would take him to stages all over Australia, to every TV variety show, to the English stage and TV and a Royal Variety performance, and to compere multiple Mardi Gras?