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  • Review: How to Train Your Dragon - Arena Spectacular
    My review of the World Premiere of How to Train Your Dragon - Arena Spectacular in Melbourne is now published online by Stage Whispers. ...
  • Review: Moonshadow (World Premiere in Melbourne)
    Moonshadow, the latest musical to open in Melbourne,   is beautiful - to look at, and listen to.  With 40 songs by Yusef (Cat Steve...
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    ABC News Victoria last night was one of the most tragic I have ever seen. The bulletin began with a report on twin four-year old boys, fig...
  • Melbourne Orphans Named on Annie's 35th Birthday
    You’d have been excused for thinking there was a party at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre yesterday afternoon, as twenty-four exuberant gir...
  • Hamer Hall Reopens in Glittering Style
    No expense was spared for the glittering opening concerts at the newly refurbished Hamer Hall in Melbourne this week. Over two night...
  • 10 Fun Study Break Ideas
    Fun Study Breaks can make exam season bearable. If you're a VCE or University student you'll know about study pressure. Swottin...
  • 10 Party Games for the Royal Wedding
    As Wills and Kate prepare to tie the knot I can't claim particular interest. After the royal marriage fiascos that have gone before, ...
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some published work

  • 10 Ideas for the Queen's Birthday
  • 10 fun study-break ideas
  • 10 ways to embrace the winter months
  • 60 years of melbourne gang show
  • 60th melbourne gang show (review)
  • 8 Events for a Spiritual Easter
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge 2013
  • a masked ball (review)
  • a storm in a D cup (review)
  • adventures of butt boy and tigger (review)
  • afghanistan: Hidden treasures exhibition
  • all the world's a stage for amazing performing arts teacher
  • annie (review)
  • annie returns to Oz
  • at last: the etta james story (review)
  • autumn 'road trip' by foot
  • backstage at MTC-HQ
  • behind the phantom's mask: meet Ben Lewis
  • bell shakespeare - the comedy or errors
  • big workplace sing 2013
  • blak-bangarra dance theatre (review)
  • blaze (review)
  • bluff circuit walk, barwon heads
  • botanica
  • breaking point - why you can't see a GP
  • cafe scheherazade (review)
  • cavalia (review)
  • cavalia comes to town
  • ceremony a real pushover
  • charles dickens presents a christmas carol (review)
  • circus oz cranked up at the big top
  • circus oz under-construction
  • circus oz: cranked up (review)
  • circus oz: steampowered (review)
  • clybourne park-mtc (review)
  • contact! operatic soapie invades suburban netball court
  • contact! the netball musical (review)
  • delivering our daily bread
  • designing love never dies
  • die young and have a good looking corpse
  • dubai mall (activity review)
  • entech 2012: hot stuff at techie mecca
  • family battle brims with hope
  • federation playspace, warrandyte (review)
  • flowerchildren (theatre works review)
  • flowerchildren - comedy theatre (review)
  • geoffrey rush reveals unsung sondheim lyrics
  • grievous angel: the legend of gram parsons (review)
  • guitar perspectives
  • hairspray: a 'brand new do' in theatre technology
  • hamer hall reopens in glittering style
  • hamer hall reopens: is it $136 million well spent?
  • happy ending-mtc (review)
  • happy rehearsal campers at ringwood
  • himmelweg (review)
  • how to host a 'super moon' party
  • how to train your dragon - arena spectacular (review)
  • htc: summer of the 17th doll (review)
  • i animal (review)
  • in memory of carolyn, a theatre
  • legally blonde opens in melbourne
  • lloyd webber in town: sneak-peek at love never dies
  • love never dies (review)
  • mademoiselle (review)
  • magnormos: taking flower children to the comedy
  • mcalpin reserve, ringwood north (review)
  • meet king kong
  • melbourne orphans announced on annie's 35th birthday
  • miss ophelia (review)
  • moonshadow (review)
  • moonshadow shines through gloomy melbourne morning
  • moonshadow: world premiere for melbourne
  • my son, the vegetarian
  • next to normal (review)
  • other desert cities (review)
  • outdoor theatre: the joys and perils
  • profile: justin burford
  • quit horsing around, this is puppetry
  • ray lawler: summer of our 90th year
  • recipe for success
  • red rock regional theatre and gallery, cororooke
  • ringwood lake park
  • river walk at barwon heads
  • rock of ages (review)
  • romeo and juliet (review)
  • rsc: kiss me kate (review)
  • rsc: sweet charity (review)
  • savages (review)
  • savages by patricia cornelius
  • school holidays for theatre lovers
  • singin' in the rain (review)
  • sneak peek: how to train your dragon
  • sondheim gets ticket to melbourne forum
  • south pacific (review)
  • south pacific: its mccune, tahu rhodes, ceberano and perfect
  • spring into ANZAC
  • starchaser (review)
  • success no stretch for glen iris gymnast
  • tape (review)
  • the confidence man (review)
  • the crucible (review)
  • the dollhouse (review)
  • the giraffe's uncle (review)
  • the laramie project 10 years later (review)
  • the man in black - johnny cash story
  • the mountain (mtc review)
  • the neighbours taste like....chicken?
  • the seed (review)
  • the trip (review)
  • top activities for families at barwon heads
  • traditional easter cake
  • twice through trauma
  • vaulting to success in glen waverley
  • vienna on fire
  • vika bull to narrate etta james' life
  • wagner roos welcome ring nuts
  • war horse - the international juggernaut to hit melbourne
  • wheels of friendship
  • william buckley: the go-between

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