Arts and Entertainment Archive

  Billed as entertainment for all ages, this one is directed primarily to younger kids, but the acrobatic, juggling and aerial expertise feats on offer should impress older siblings as well as adults. Hosted by a suitably mad contortionist Mad Hatter (Tamara …

Thirty-one years after the fatal shooting of Cabramatta state MP John Newman, a book launch in Fairfield on 12 December 2025 brought people together to revisit one of Australia’s most contested crimes in the place where it all happened on 5 September …

This is a good, old-fashioned murder mystery, delivered with panache – and one that keeps us guessing until the final scene. Director Mark Kilmurry drives the plot along with precision, and his cast of five cannot be faulted. Frederick Knott’s Dial M …

The Australia Western Sahara Association (AWSA) hosted a special screening of “Limbo: The Forgotten Promise” at NSW Parliament House on 17 September 2025. Hosted by the Hon Janelle Anne Saffin MP and Ms Kobi Lee Shetty MP, the screening focused on Western …

What a wonderful production of Edward Albee’s searingly black comedy! George and Martha, middle-aged, married and famously unhappy, first burst onto the stage in 1962 and ultimately the play was a huge success – even though, according to the program notes, ‘it …

Billed as ‘a rollicking queer Western’, Charlie Josephine’s Cowbois , which debuted in the UK in 2023, could also be described as a gay rights party – with guns. And cowboys. Whatever it is, with its gunsmokin’, all singin’ and dancin’ cast …

Old men behaving badly. Old men with power, who rule kingdoms or countries, behaving badly? Yep. Should parents be wary of giving too much dosh and agency to their offspring? Probably. Not much has changed since Shakespeare’s King Lear first entertained audiences …

When you wake up thinking about the show you saw the night before, you know it made an impression and this Romeo & Juliet, directed by Bell Shakespeare’s Peter Evans, stays in the mind for all the right reasons. It is absorbing …

Spring heralds a celebratory time, blossoming with new beginnings and hope. Likewise, Bach Akademie Australia’s performance of JS Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos at The Brandenburg Concertos on Saturday November 15 on the Pier is a joyous tribute that opens up the breath of Bach’s …

  FULL DISCLOSURE, folks: This is not my review. It is written by Diana Simmonds of Stage Noise, and she has kindly given her permission to reprint it here. (Why didn’t I review it? The secret is in the cast names! No …