Arts and Entertainment Archive

It’s hard to imagine Skank Sinatra (the alter persona  of Jens Redda) as anything other than a glamorous, over-the-top cabaret queen. In this show, which has a very short run at Qtopia in Darlinghurst, we are treated to a brief synopsis of …

Game lovers, cosplayers and visitors joined Sydney University Anime Society for a Wuthering Waves game-themed event celebrating its first anniversary at The Refectory on June 1. Chinese company Kuro Games released Wuthering Waves, an open-world action role-playing game with anime-style visuals, in …

Check into another world when you book yourself into L’Hotel. It’s a head-spinning mix of burlesque, cabaret and circus expertise with artists on stage, dancing around diners’ tables and performing jaw-dropping acrobatics overhead. Add to that live music and an atmosphere that …

  ‘This Is Our Happy Place’ declares the sign on the classroom where the school’s Executive Committee (all parent volunteers, of course) are gathered to discuss and pontificate on matters of importance. Anyone who has ever attended a committee or a strata …

This is an absolute gem of a play. The language is delightfully eloquent, full of humour and insights along with some wonderful turns of phrase, the subject matter universal and the two cast members play their parts beautifully. Fifty-somethings Mal and Mairead …

  Berlin’s Signum Saxophone Quartet face the same challenge as any cover band. How do you stay true to the original and push the boundaries enough to say something new? The quartet’s performance at City Recital Hall with celebrated Australian soprano singer …

  Deliciously snarky, both in the performances and Harold Pinter’s precise dialogue, the first play in this double bill, The Lover, lays bare power dynamics in a bourgeois marriage. Set in the 1960s, the scene is a perfectly tidy living room, presided …

Big Girls Don’t Cry is a snapshot of Redfern in the 1960s, told from a First Nations perspective. Big things were on the horizon: the 1967 referendum, for one, but before that the upcoming 1966 Indigenous Debutante Ball to be held at …

Game review | Mingyue Yao After leaving their cubicle job and inheriting an old farm from their grandfather, players arrive in Stardew Valley, ready to escape the fast pace of modern life. Here, no matter the passing days or seasons, the next …

  Leona (Jixin) Li, Oliver Wen Audiences at Chatswood’s Concourse Theatre were treated to a night of fun discovery of Chinese Modern History with “Donald’s Inferno,” a comedy stage production written and directed by Jon-Claire Lee. The show ran on December 10 …