The show I’m raving about this year is Kafkas’ Ape.
Theatre Review: Playthings is anything but child's play
Playthings is a darkly comic, thought-provoking and enthralling new play from local playwright Scott McArdle.
LIVE REVIEW: KAIIT lights up Mojos with "Miss Shiney" Tour
Mojos was heaving on Monday night as people flocked to close their long weekend with the majestic KAIIT, and local support acts Your Girl Pho and Grievous Bodily Calm.
Layla Majnun – A labour of love in more ways than one
Layla Majnun has been a labour of love for the Performing Lines team, and it showed in the care that was given to curating the space at Subiaco Arts Centre.
THEATRE REVIEW: Perpetual Wake "is a tangled tale of lies and deception"
The Last Great Hunt produce works that inventively play with form and have the ability to engage the intellect as well as the heart. Perpetual Wake is a show that looks at our intrinsic need to please other people.
INTERVIEW: Jeffrey Jay Fowler discusses the Last Great Hunt's new work Perpetual Wake
The Last Great Hunt is one of the most innovative and intelligent theatre making groups in Perth today. Founding member, performer and writer Jeffrey Jay Fowler sat down with Bec Bowman to talk about the origins of The Last Great Hunt and their new show Perpetual Wake.
PREVIEW: Layla Majnun – your heart will be on fire with this ancient Persian tale
Like the characters of Romeo and Juliet - to which Layla Majnun is most often compared - the two are dead at the end of this centuries old Persian love story. This is the only real comparison to Shakespeare’s’ tale, as we found out when we spoke to performer and driving creative force Ustaadh Feraidoon Mojadedi. Layla Majnun is presented by Performing Lines WA and features illUMEnate artists.
Theatre Review: The Wolves will have you howling for more
The Wolves is a tightly scripted play which explores the lives of a high school girls soccer team through their weekly warmup sessions.
INTERVIEW: Musical 'HAIR' will have you dancing in the aisles
Featuring a diverse group of young people trying to live by their values in an increasingly noisy world, HAIR is about the tribes we come to identify with. Bec Bowman caught up with star Stefanie Caccamo – and former Perthite - to chat about her role in HAIR, and what she thinks of the nudity and the tribe.
INTERVIEW: 'Unrule' creator Michelle Aitken talks all things theatre and female
Unrule is a new production on at The Blue Room Theatre — home of some of the most innovative theatre making in Perth today. It’s a hilarious, horror filled exploration of the ways the bodies (and experiences) of those who identify as female are misunderstood by the health system.
LIVE REVIEW: Groovin The Moo 2019
Getting to Groovin The Moo is always a bit of a mission — and that can be part of the fun.
LIVE REVIEW: AURORA's 'Queendom' comes to Fremantle
Her range is unbelievably high, and through every song she dances the way we all dance when we are on our own — full of expressive joy.
LIVE REVIEW: Odette leaves everyone breathless, even herself
Odette loses herself in the music, dancing as if she were alone in her bedroom instead of in front of an adoring crowd…
LIVE REVIEW: Reliving a moment with Butterfingers @ Badlands
Butterfingers took to the stage and let us relive those heady days when Breakfast ruled the airwaves.
CHEVRON GARDENS REVIEW: The Preatures Unplugged with Abbe May
Supported by Perth queen of rock Abbe May, they brought to the stage an ‘unplugged’ set of old favourites and new tunes.
CHEVRON GARDENS REVIEW: Jungle Brothers will make you move
Proving they are still as relevant today as they were when seminal album Straight Out The Jungle was released 30 years ago, the brothers kept it truly jungle on this Saturday night.
FRINGE INTERVIEW: Theatre queen Charlotte Otton on her latest projects
Charlotte Otton is the emerging queen of Perth’s independent theatre scene. In 2018, she performed in Rorschach Beasts’ Hive Mind and developed the brilliant Let me finish., alongside being a regular performer with Perth improv stalwarts The Big Hoo-Haa.
FRINGE REVIEW: Dali After Dark is here to blow your mind
Dali After Dark emerges from the warped mind of subversive burlesque artist Leah Shelton. It’s an immersive journey through the mind and works of Salvador and Gala Dali, and sympatico artists curated by the Burratti Gallery.
FRINGE REVIEW: Lysistrata is admirable in concept, messy in execution
Lysistrata is a comedy written by Aristophanes in 411 BC. However, it is disappointing that the effort to create connections between the source material and the feminist movement remains surface-level throughout this update.
FRINGE REVIEW: Poorly Drawn Shark features hilarious and biting social commentary
Poorly Drawn Shark is an autobiographical account of Perth-based performer Andrew Sutherland’s time as a jobbing actor-slash-model in Singapore.