Arts and Entertainment Archive

I’m not confident about reviewing classical music, but I am a big fan of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and have been lucky enough to attend many of their concerts over the years, so I just want to tell you that their latest …

“There’s nowt so queer as folk.” That’s an expression from the north of England (Yorkshire and Lancashire, if you want me to be precise), which basically means there is no accounting for human behaviour. It came to mind as I was watching …

Chaos versus order; the heart versus the head; science versus emotion. These are the themes running through Lucy Kirkwood’s ambitious new play Mosquitoes. At its heart is the relationship of two very different sisters, intellectually brilliant Alice (Jacqueline McKenzie) and her much …

The publicity photos for A Little Piece of Ash show the actors with cigarettes in various orifices but this is not a play about smoking, it’s about grieving and loss, and moving on. It’s about life. Jedda’s mum has just died. It …

Ebola, swine flu, SARS: we’ve seen many epidemics erupt in recent times, resulting in scores of deaths around the world. What we haven’t seen is a contagion resulting in deep, dream-filled sleep. Yet this is the calamity that befalls a small American …

Part family drama, part road trip and part cri de coeur, Barbara and the Camp Dogs is both a raucously funny tale and a soberingly sad one. It’s also a really good musical night out, with Belvoir’s upstairs theatre converted into a …

With the Bee Gees’ timeless disco music to propel it along, you’d expect Saturday Night Fever to be one big, pulsating celebration of song and dance. And it is. And there is as much glitz and glitter, gold and purple as you …

What a week to open a play that questions women’s place in sport. Just as the photo that showcases AFL footballer Tayla Harris’s wonderful athleticism made headlines and created controversy, Jane E Thompson’s play provokes discussion and highlights the difficulties women face …

This is such a raw and honest story, and so powerfully told by Kate Mulvaney as the Narrator, that it would be easy to forget that it is not Mulvaney’s own story. In fact, it is by Duncan McMillan who co-wrote it …

The things we do for love – or is that addiction? And what’s the difference? Mary Rachel Brown’s newest play is all about addiction. Addiction to booze, to love, to unrequited love, to past love, to hurt, to anger. Whatever. As she …