Arts and Entertainment Archive

This beguiling title “Pride and Prejudice (sort of) entices us to wonder what the “sort of” will deliver. We soon find out. Five women busy on stage, seemingly cleaning, ignore the audience as we take our seats. But it’s not long before …

Ensemble Q’s performance at Sydney Opera House offered a delightful sonic journey that combined energetic modern pieces with some of classical music’s best-known works. Taking place in the intimate Utzon Room, the performance opened with Beethoven’s ‘String Trio No. 3 in C …

Amidst the frost and fog of a July evening, audiences gathered at Canberra Grammar School’s Snow Concert Hall for an immersion in an evening of musical imagination. With the warmth of the hall contrasting against the crisp Canberra air, violinist Leila Josefowicz …

A delightful mix of impressive circus acts performed with engaging comic delivery kept hundreds of children gasping with awe throughout Pay no Attention, the Flying Fruit Fly Circus performances that sold out at the Sydney Opera House from July 4 to July …

If this play ever comes to Sydney, grab yourself a ticket immediately. It’s called 1536 because that was the year that Henry VIII decided, on spurious grounds, to have his wife’s head chopped off, but this is not a history lesson as …

Launching tomorrow: ROSEBERY PLAZA Nights: Life & Art After Dark On June 19, Rosebery Plaza will switch on a new large‑scale projector, lighting up the Rosebery Plaza wall (18 metres wide by 32 metres high) as part of Rosebery Nights: Lights & …

  Paula Arundell has her audience spellbound in this clever and contemporary retelling of Daphne du Maurier’s short story The Birds, made famous by the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film. That film was set in California, du Maurier’s original took place in post-WWII …

  Steel Magnolias, with its whip-smart wit and female camaraderie, is the sort of play that will have you leaving the theatre smiling, and that is certainly the case with this production. It is set entirely within Truvy’s home-based beauty salon in …

‘Happiness is a choice. Even on bad days, we are lucky to be alive.’ These are among the closing remarks made by Eddie Jaku (enacted by Anton Berezin) as he relates his story of persecution, imprisonment and escapes, torture and near death …

Helene Hanff’s 1970 non-fiction book, 84 Charing Cross Road, is charmingly realised in this eponymously named play at the Ensemble with Erik Thomson and Blazey Best in the leading roles. In 1981, the book was adapted for the stage by James Roose-Evans, …