Arts and Entertainment Archive

In 2004, Mark Taylor was travelling across Argentina and discovered countless Latin American films he felt needed to be showcased in Australia.  Scoping across horror, fantasy, comedy, family friendly animation, shorts, documentaries and mockumentaries, Taylor returned home to Australia and launched the …

Since Ray Charles created Soul music in the mid-1950s by combining Gospel ecstasy with the secular (and sexual) themes of the Blues, the genre has given us almost an embarrassment of astonishing vocalists. Charles himself, Smokey Robinson, David Ruffin, Chaka Khan, Otis …

Picture this: you have a partner who is a writer. One day, she or he receives a shock phone call from Stockholm, with news of winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. Your whole family is ecstatic. Friends are delighted. Well-wishers and journalists …

Karakorum: A Medieval Musical Journey provides an unexpected but delightful experience as the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir collaborate with French ensemble La Camera delle Lacrime and renowned Australian actor David Wenham as narrator. The enterprising Paul Dyer, whose exiguous regard for concert convention has seen …

Standing Ovations for an Outstanding Performance One man show extraordinaire, and founding member of the Ensemble Theatre, Reg Livermore, introduces us to the charismatic theatre jack-of-all trade’s actor Arthur Kwick (with a KW) whose career has been unremarkable despite a surprisingly notable …

The Lexus Short Film fellows of 2017 presented their new works at the Dendy Cinema at Circular Quay as part of the Sydney Film Festival last month. The fellowship is aligned with such names such as Marta Dusseldorp, Judy Davis and David …

As anyone who has ever set foot in a Centrelink office can testify, it’s not a happy experience. But when Genevieve Hegney and Catherine Moore, who wrote and star (yes, star!) in Unqualified, meet on their different job quests in such an …

“Music is a thing we turn to when we abandon the kingdom of reason” Richard Wagner’s music (somewhat unluckily for the composer) is inextricably bound with Hitler and the Third Reich, the Fuhrer idolising Wagner’s work and eventually using it to open …

When it premiered in Los Angeles in 2014, Marjorie Prime was reviewed as a comedy. At the Ensemble, under the very able direction of Mitchell Butel, there are certainly some funny moments but the treatment of Jordan Harrison’s play, which takes the …

There is so much to like about this new Australian play. Written by Joanna Erskine and performed at the artist-run Old 505 with a great ensemble cast, it is full of life, occasionally laugh-out-loud hilarious, and all about death! Ultimately, it’s how …