Arts and Entertainment Archive

With a broad sweep of his polished playwright’s pen, David Williamson gives us themes of betrayal, loneliness, treachery, theft, jealousy, mistrust and all kinds of skulduggery in the cut-throat world of entertainment, aka The Big Time. No doubt he has had plenty …

Billed as an ‘hilariously disturbing gothic musical’, Tom Cone’s Herringbone is part vaudeville, part horror and part ghost story. It’s set in Depression-era Alabama and sees eight-year-old George, who has a talent for the stage, become possessed by the spirit of a …

Get ready to lose yourself into another world. Counting and Cracking is an immersive experience that will compel you to think, touch your heart and make you wonder. We’re only just starting 2019 but this play is going to be one of the year’s …

  It’s been a while since I’ve seen either of the films and even longer since I read the book (which was published in 1964), but this all singing, all dancing, all magical production brings it right back. Like Roald Dahl’s best-known …

Slick, professional, baffling, clever, gasp-inducing and all-round top-rate entertainment. The Illusionists is all this more, and even cynics can’t help wondering, “How do they do that?” “Direct from Broadway” says the publicity, but this is a show that looks like it comes …

Poor Annie! The only one of the six characters in the Norman Conquests for whom I can feel any lasting sympathy. I left Round and Round the Garden, hoping she would not have to make do with that man! But to go …

No doubt about it, Australian politics is the gift that keeps on giving, and the creators of the  Déjà Revue, penned by the ever-acerbic and clever duo of Jonathan Biggins and Drew Forsythe, does not disappoint. So far, it never has. This …

The marital hell that sustains Edgar and Alice is obvious even before the lights go up on Brian Thomson’s fabulously dark set. Their body language, the overturned table and chairs, the general air of gloom and decay are all there, and then …

Sarah Pierse has absolutely nailed the role of Miss Docker in this wonderful production of Patrick White’s A Cheery Soul directed by Kip Williams. As well as being a visual delight (thanks Elizabeth Gadsby and costume designer Alice Babidge), Williams has assembled …

There were absolutely no signs of sibling rivalry when talented Costi siblings Rosemarie, Constantine and Michael joined forces to create an entertaining adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s 1842 short story The Overcoat which premieres at Belvoir St Theatre tonight. Rosemarie worked on the music, Michael on the lyrics and Constantine directed …