Arts and Entertainment Archive

There is a cruel joke told about the ‘child prodigy’ in music. It goes, “When he was four, he played like a 20-year-old; when he was 20, he played like a 20-year-old; when he was 40, he played like a 20-year-old”. But …

The beating of drums is just one irresistible attraction of Crimson Sky, the exciting TaikOz production that premiered at the Glen Street Theatre  last night. The composition is a dedication to the forms of Wadaiko and the performers and their passion on stage comes from their …

Winter is drawing to a close and as you put away your scarves and coats the Balmain Sinfonia is reaching for their instruments as they invite you to join them in welcoming spring when they perform at the Macquarie University Jubilee Concert …

Whilst listening to the Arctic Monkeys’ third album Humbug last week I noticed its release date was five years ago to the very day. On my first hearing I remembered being slightly confused by it; it hadn’t the immediacy of their first …

“Think of a guitar string that has been tuned by stretching the string under tension across the guitar. Depending on how the string is plucked and how much tension is in the string, different musical notes will be created by the string.” …

David Stavanger (aka Ghostboy), 2013 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, is launching his poetry collection,”The Special”, at the Queensland Poetry Festival on Saturday, 30 August. Rosanna Licari catches up with David to talk about the p-word. Q. When did you …

The Composer is Dead is a fabulous murder-mystery story, written and composed as an orchestral presentation by Lemony Snicket and Nathaniel Stookey in 2006. It was principally designed as an entertaining, educational piece for children to learn about the world of traditional …

Jeff Duff has always been a David Bowie fan. But then, what’s not to like about the man voted the most influential artist of the 20th century by his peers? And though Duff is not easily impressed by fame and stardom, he does …

Bell Shakespeare’s rollicking version of Moliere’s Tartuffe will have you laughing uncomfortably at the easy success of manipulation and deceit. Leon Ford shines as the wily, sanctimonious Tartuffe, the penniless stranger who, in the words of the sharp-tongued maid Dorine (played brilliantly by Kate …

The Paris Opera Bastille this month hosted the Notre Dame de Paris Ballet created in 1965 by Roland Petit for the Opera Ballet after Victor Hugo’s original novel. Located in the south east of Paris on Bastille Square, the modern opera house was built …