Arts and Entertainment Archive

“You’ve never suffered from depression?” Lorna asks Connie. “No,” she responds. She’s been sad, but that’s not the same, is it? She seems slightly baffled at the notion of depression. “It’s an illness, right?” This exchange takes place at the beginning of The …

The Sydney premiere of Mary Anne Butler’s The Sound of Waiting at the Eternity Playhouse produced an intense night of theatre. Under the able direction of Suzanne Pereira this two-hander manages to take the audience beyond the walls of an inner city …

The latest episode of The Simpsons has addressed the controversy surrounding Indian character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon after claims the popular show has a “racist” depiction of South Asians. Last year Indian-American comic Hari Kondabolu released a documentary The Problem with Apu, about how South …

Intriguing on several levels, this production of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children is wonderfully realised and maintains its air of suspense and quiet menace throughout. We meet jittery Hazel (Pamela Rabe) first. She’s in a modest cottage near the coast in England, on …

This joyful opening concert of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s 2018 season celebrates 16th and 17th century English choral and chamber music by Byrd, Gibbons, Purcell, Locke and Handel, and closes with the Australian premiere of Vaughan Williams’ ‘Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis’ …

Australia’s greatest export, AC/DC, have for almost half a century kept the beating heart of rock and roll alive. Despite their sound becoming more buffed and polished as time has gone by, despite the rooms going from humid pubs to the world’s …

The fictional town of Coriole, a parodic portrayal of any and every small town in Australia, is the setting of Jonathan Biggins’ Australia Day, currently showing at The New Theatre, Newtown. The production, directed by Louise Fischer, begins in the local Scout …

Picture, if you will, a medieval Italian countryside at dusk. It is the height of summer, the harvested wheat stands in sheaths, and the hum of insects fills the air. The light is gauzy with lingering heat and lengthening shadows. Such is …

I Love You Now, a new Australian work from writer Jeanette Cronin, is enjoying its world premiere at the Darlinghurst Theatre until July 9. The lights go up to reveal a modern hotel suite queen bed, the centrepiece of the action and …

Ana, mon amour is about a turbulent relationship between Toma and Ana over a decade. And the movie felt like it would run for the 87,600 hours that make up a decade. The Romanian film, by director Călin Peter Netzer, a follow …