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OBSERVER: The Silent Anzac

Saturday, November 1, 2025

With the annual Remembrance Day looming next week, Skunkworks Productions is bringing its popular show The Silent Anzac to Hawthorn Arts Centre this weekend.The Silent Anzac is a moving tributed to one Australia’s most storied submarines and the men and women of The Great War.The show received standing ovations when it was performed at Australia…

OBSERVER: Tenori On The Road

Frankston Arts Centre and HIT Productions present Tenori: On the Road on Friday, November 14 at 10.30am and 11.40am.Returning by popular demand as part of Frankston Arts Centre’s Daytime Music and Theatre program, Tenori will perform timeless classics from opera, music theatre, jazz and beyond.Featuring vocalists David Kidd, Stewart Morris and Andrew Pryor, with 75…

OBSERVER: Local Theatre Report

SHOWS LOTS Theatre (Legends of the Skies): Charles Kingsford Smith – The Man, the Myth, the Mystery, Smithy a musical flight through history. November 6 – 8 at 7.30pm, Nov 8 and 9 at 2pm at the Moorabbin Air Museum. Artistic Director: Maggie Morrison. All tickets $25, family of four $90. Bookings: .trybooking.com/DFEAGMalvern Theatre Company:…

OBSERVER: Barber of Seville

The Australian Opera’s revival production of The Barber of Seville plays to the inherent comic nonsense of the buffa tradition in opera.Count Almaviva (Shanul Sharma) attempts to woo Rosina (Helen Sherman) with the aid of Figaro (Samuel Dundas).Standing in his way is Rosina’s guardian, Dr Bartolo (Andrew Moran) who is advised by Don Basilio (David…

OBSERVER: Masterpiece

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Something of a hybrid show that used clowning and mime performance styles, Masterpiece had the intriguing tagline “No words. One task. Two clowns”.However the intrigue, sadly, was all too short-lived.Two art installers appear on stage dressed in black and wearing professional-looking white gloves.They are in an art gallery and carry with them a large wrapped…

OBSERVER: The Comics Lounge

The Comics Lounge is offering audiences free shows on the dates below.Melbourne Comedy Festival favourites are back in town and samples of Comedy Festival shows from this year and last year can be enjoyed from October 29 – 31 and November 1, 5, 6 at The Comics Lounge, 26 Errol St\, North Melbourne.Doors open at…

OBSERVER: A Coo-ee to Marie

Trek Musicals present A Coo-ee to Marie for five performances, all at 2pm, on November 8 at the Warrandyte Mechanics’ Hall, November 9 at the Eltham Montmorency Uniting Church, November 15 at Living Faith, Greensborough, November 22 at the Diamond Creek Uniting Church and November 23 at the Ormond Uniting Church.Written and directed by Darren…

OBSERVER: The Dress

Essence Theatre Productions present The Dress from November 2-7 at the Bluestone Church Arts Space, Footscray.Set in I899, The Dress is a two-hander featuring the characters of Mrs Hannah Bryden, a widow who enjoys nothing save for the occasional company of her dressmaker, the flamboyant Mr Bertin.But when massive advances in the fashion industry jeopardise…

OBSERVER: Big Pants

A two-time RAW comedy finalist (Vic 2024, ACT 2023), Chelsea Heaney blends funny situational comedy with an endearing charm in Big Pants.A musical theatre tragic, she tells of the time she landed her dream part, as Rizzo in an amateur production of Grease, only for it to be cancelled due to Covid.After suffering through Covid…

OBSERVER: $100,000 Fellowship

The Betty Amsden Foundation has announced composer and researcher Dr Ciaran Frame (pictured) as the inaugural recipient of the $100,000 Betty Amsden Fellowship – the largest of its kind backing innovation in arts business and operations.Founded on the vision of the late Betty Amsden AO, the biennial Fellowship supports bold, game-changing ideas in performing arts…