Arts and Entertainment Archive

Mozart’s Fortepiano, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s fourth subscription series concert of 2015, sees the early music ensemble venture beyond the baroque and into the classical repertoire. Beginning with works by JC Bach and WF Bach, sons of Johann Sebastian Bach, and then …

The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne  2015 has just kicked off offering the best of Indian films and Bollywood spectaculars. The Victorian government’s gallant offering to the fashion conscious and movie enthusiasts, the festival (IFFM) toasts the best of the Indian subcontinent’s …

The buzz of excitement palpable on the opening night performance of Justin Fleming’s  Shellshock when it premiered at Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres on July 30 was amply rewarded. As the lights dimmed the audience is introduced to the storyteller who will guide them through this heart-warming tale of love and …

Eighteen years is a long time in the life of a band. Since English band Blur last played a gig on Australia’s shores in October 1997, they’ve released platinum selling albums, disbanded, reformed, headlined several gigs in London’s Hyde Park, pulled out …

It is very rare to see a classical music audience lose its traditional polite composure overcome with the spectacle of a remarkable performance. But that is exactly what has been happening during the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra season of French Baroque with Circa …

Three words aptly describe this contribution to understanding the world of fashion: powerful, heartbreaking and educational. The latest documentary on the fashion industry, presented by Good on You and The Salvation Army at Sydney’s Chauvel Cinema in July, shocked the audience with behind …

Lisa D’Amour’s dark comedy Detroit, which opened at the Eternity Theatre on July 22, is a profoundly humorous, if rather disturbing, critique of the decaying economic and social structure of middle class America. The work was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize and …

The lights come on and a countdown begins, to what we don’t know. A solitary figure stands on stage, framed by a wide circle of light fittings that resemble a 1950s idea of the inside of a space ship. The lanky skinny guy …

If you make a revolution, make it for fun, don’t make it in ghastly seriousness, don’t do it in deadly earnest, do it for fun. Don’t do it because you hate people, do it just to spit in their eye. DH Lawrence, A Sane Revolution Standing …

Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art has turned the lights on sculptures and artificial light installations to transform the space and alter perception until July 10. Throughout the exhibit, light – something we take for granted in our every day lives – is used as …