Arts and Entertainment Archive

The main campus at the University of Sydney will shine with the light of the galaxies, Aboriginal art and human cells for this year’s Vivid Sydney festival from May 22 to June 8. It’s the second time the university has participated in …

Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, now entering its three last weeks at The Lyric Theatre, is ideal Saturday night entertainment, but perhaps not for the whole family. Director Christopher Luscombe’s revival of the infamous cult musical is a two-hour production brimming with both energy …

I have seen recently departed blues grandmaster BB King live in concert twice in my life. The experiences were separated by almost 40 years in time and by an unmeasurable distance in spirit. The first time was at Sydney’s ‘70s concert-box-du-jour, the …

It was the perfect image for what we were hearing. An Apple laptop, all sleek silver skin and, a few feet back on the same stage, Tommie Andersson’s theorbo, that intriguing steam-punk lute-like instrument from the Baroque. Almost 300 years separate these …

  It comes as no surprise that Ira Levin’s play Deathtrap is the longest running thriller on Broadway of all time. Presented by Darlinghurst Theatre Company, this well-oiled, two-act, one-setting play from the author of Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives delivers …

  Anthony Gooley’s Orphans, performed at The Old Fitz – my new profoundly favourite pub-theatre in the centre of Sydney – is a heart-warming thriller with a social index: the abuse and neglect of orphaned children that is still relevant today. Walking …

Emerging young writer Rogelio Alfonzo Mendoza has an abundance of energy and imagination. Born in Venezuela and now living in Sydney, Australia, Mendoza is tomorrow launching his new book Behind the Quiet Fences. The attraction to the thriller genre goes back many …

  When it comes to new music, most times I have to go looking for the good stuff. But sometimes the good stuff comes looking for me. Lunching with my wife at Hobart’s MONA on the last day of a holiday in …

Artist Laura Moore was first attracted to photography as a way of collecting evidence and proof. The medium she both loves and intensely scrutinises was a way of certifying her own existence. A decade on and she’s decided that photography can’t replace …

  Le Noir, The Dark Side of Cirque, opened at the Sydney Lyric Theatre on Thursday March 19 and plays until Saturday April 4. A unique and electrifying theatrical experience, it features 22 of the greatest circus performers in the world, all award-winning athletes and …