Perth Arts Live

REVIEW: OUT OF ORDER | Tamara Creasey and The Blue Room Theatre

Tamara Creasey's office comedy is OUT OF ORDER and totally out of control. The silly, madcap(puccino) antics of a team of office workers who've run out of coffee runs riot at The Blue Room until 17 May. Read the review via the link below.

📸 Daniel J Grant

https://pertharts.live/2025/05/05/review-out-of-order-tamara-creasey-and-the-blue-room-theatre/

REVIEW: Thirst | Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company

Barbara Hostalek's latest play produced by Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company has the folks at The Glass Slipper serving up warmth, humour, and a 'sweet' karaoke singalong that's...'So good! So good! So good!'. Read the review via the link below.

📷 Dana Weeks
On at Subiaco Arts Centre until 10 May

https://pertharts.live/2025/05/05/review-thirst-yirra-yaakin-theatre-company/

REVIEW: China for the June Wedding | ITSAHA Production & The Blue Room Theatre

Howard McKenzie-Murray's debut play is "jam-packed" with juicy tragicomic delights that the ensemble sinks its teeth into. Read the review via the link below:

https://pertharts.live/2025/05/02/review-china-for-the-june-wedding-itsaha-production-the-blue-room-theatre/

REVIEW: Hot Cross Critters by Mummy's Plastic TV World at The Rechabite

For reviewer C.J. O'Harte, it was "pure pundemic pundemonium" this past Good Friday as Mummy's Plastic took over the main hall of The Rechabite with their rockin' chockin' Easter panto. Read the review via the link below.

Image by Libby Klysz

https://pertharts.live/2025/04/23/review-hot-cross-critters-mummys-plastic-tv-world/

REVIEW: Shadow of Doubt by Rachel McMurray | Fine Comb Theatre and The Blue Room Theatre

Writer/director Rachel McMurray hits refresh on the conversation around domestic abuse through her play Shadow of Doubt, currently running at The Blue Room Theatre from 15 Apr - 3 May. Read the review via the link below.

Image by Tallulah Chong

https://pertharts.live/2025/04/23/review-shadow-of-doubt-fine-comb-theatre-company/

INTERVIEW: Cezera Critti-Schnaars is ready for takeoff

Ahead of her performance in 's China For The June Wedding at The Blue Room Theatre from 29 Apr - 3 May, talks about her life in theatre and her journey into performance and direction in a conversation infused with deep reflection on identity, family, and the kind of stories worth telling. Read more:

https://pertharts.live/2025/04/22/interview-cezera-critti-schnaars-is-ready-for-takeoff/

It's night! Chookas to all the nominees!

On opening night of Raised in Big Spirit Country, director and vocalist Naomi Pigram-Mitchell had this to say:

"It's taken someone like Kate Champion, who's the Artistic Director of Black Swan State Theatre Company, to come up there in my country and sit down with me and actually get to know me for 10 minutes, and then walk away and back me. That means the world to me, because it's taken 45 years for someone to back me, and that woman did, and here we are tonight.

So, I want to express my most sincere gratitude to you Kate, to be walking beside me on this journey to reconnect Black Swan State Theatre Company with the Kimberley."

Raised in Big Spirit Country is presented at the in the Studio Underground from 27 - 29 Mar 2025.

How it feels watching Raised in Big Spirit Country from Naomi Pigram-Mitchell and 🩵 ...feels like dreaming in Broome....

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VIEWS: 2025 Festival Season Wrap-up with the PAL Team

We've picked our festival favourites! Read the latest post on pertharts.live to see our top shows from , Summer Nights, and 2025!

http://pertharts.live/2025/03/21/views-2025-festival-season-wrap-up-with-the-pal-team/

The are back on April 7 in the Heath Ledger Theatre at !

To get ready for the night, we've compiled a list of all the nominated shows that we were lucky enough to review last year. Follow the link in bio/stories/below to read what we had to say about these fantastic home-grown performances.

And be sure to follow to see the complete list of nominees and book your ticket to the awards night!

http://pertharts.live/2025/03/14/news-performing-arts-wa-awards-2025/

We've been recovering from festival fever and wrapping up our reviews for and 2025. What a truly remarkable 6 weeks of arts and culture we've had. Head to pertharts.live to read about:

1. Ingrained by
2. El Ritmo by
3. August: Osage County by and
4. Nils Frahm
5. LEGENDS (of the Golden Arches) by .paradise.lui and
6. Big Name, No Blankets by

A big thank you to our small but mighty team of writer-artists who poured their love for the arts into their reviews and helped cover the breadth of this season's festival offerings:
guillotin AKA C.J. O'Harte
AKA Mitch Whelanorla AKA Sinead Harte
AKA Maya-Rose Chauhan
AKA Gemma Sidney

Finally, thank you, artists, for putting your creative work out there and inviting PAL to see it, and thank you, readers, for engaging with our arts writing and criticism and for going to see LIVE PERFORMANCE - it's vital for humanity! ❤️

Cicely
Owner/Editor