Arts and Entertainment Archive

It’s always breathtaking to witness someone immersed in their passion and the performance by Avi Avital was surprisingly sensational. The attainment of one’s Opus is no mean feat as it takes courage, innovation, dedication and an all-encompassing desire. Grammy-nominated mandolinist Avi Avital …

  Is there a Basil Fawlty in all of us? John Cleese’s memorable character from the TV show Fawlty Towers barely tolerates strangers constantly invading his seaside hotel. Airbnb’ing my bedroom to offset the rent of an ageing Bondi Beach apartment, that …

Broken is a visceral, poetic and exquisitely raw theatre experience, written by Mary Anne Butler and directed by Shannon Murphy. The play tells the interwoven stories of Ash (Rarriwuy Hick), a woman who suffers a horrific rollover car accident while driving through …

The Brandenburg’s trademark joyfulness was in full flight from the beginning of their performance on opening night. The decorative lighting in shades of orange and rose gold provided an apt backdrop to Paul Dyer’s irrepressible enthusiasm and personal warmth, and brought cosiness …

The POP PERSPECTIVES: A Collective Work of Influence exhibition brings to the fore the work of three emerging artists, Angus Olsen, Sarah Naylor and Susan Wood who are originally from the Blue Mountains. These eclectic artists have come together to express their not-so-secret obsessions with …

Musicians have always played muse to American independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. The director’s long and rich history of collaborations include his playful partnership with the Wu Tang Clan (RZA scored Ghost Dog; both he and GZA feature in Coffee and Cigarettes), and …

Making it’s Australian debut at the Sydney Film Festival, dark comedy Swiss Army Man will appease audiences who enjoyed the Tom Hanks drama Cast Away, but thought it lacked a solid serving of bodily function gags. Set on a deserted island in …

If you haven’t done it yet, make the effort to see Ben Elton’s We will Rock You at the Sydney Lyric Theatre before the season ends on June 26. It wasn’t exactly what I expected but the two-and-a-half-hour show delivers the music …

A Majestic Musical Journey Celebrating the Human Voice is impossible not to be moved by this majestic musical journey celebrating the human voice. Paul Dyer Artistic Director and Conductor of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (ABO) undertook that his daring concert entitled ‘Mozart …

The opening of Belleville makes itself clear; this is a play about modern romantic problems, and in particular, those of two American expats living in Paris, Abby and Zack. In the first scene, Abby, who has come home from a failed yoga class, …