Arts and Entertainment Archive

The Young Tycoons first played at the Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s previous space, at Greenknowe Avenue, in September 2005, and enjoyed a sold-out return season in February 2006. Now returning to the fabulous Eternity Theatre the play feels just as relevant as it did …

Jim Moginie is perhaps best known as a member of iconic Australian band, Midnight Oil. His musicality and vision helped shape the sound of the Oils taking them far from their early pub rock thunder into a highly original and sophisticated sound …

I sometimes wonder if artistic director Paul Dyer chooses his troupe and soloists on the basis of good looks. The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (ABO) is a cut above the usual aesthetic standards of classical ensembles.  But maybe their palpable cheerfulness just lends …

This year’s Sydney Film Festival will feature the largest ever number of Australian films in competition for the top prize. Leading the charge in the Official Competition is David Michôd’s highly anticipated futuristic thriller Rover, his follow up to the Academy-Award nominated …

Days have slowly been getting shorter, mornings have been getting colder and I’ve been pressing the snooze button on my alarm far more than I should; winter is coming. It’s appropriate that folk black metal band ­Ifing’s debut album, Against This Weald, …

Benjamin Hauptmann is a performer who quietly, but forcefully, demands an audience’s attention through his masterful solos and lush atmospheric textures. His voice is always one to be heard and his total command over his guitar sounds is a thing to be …

Every Easter, Bluesfest brings an influx of great international artists to the country to play for those willing to make the pilgrimage to Byron Bay. If you’re lucky and you’re in Sydney, most of those artists will come down for a sideshow …

If you haven’t yet caught Tom Murphy’s The Gigli Concert now on at the Eternity Playhouse in Darlinghurst you definitely should before the season ends on May 4. One could be tempted to describe as intense this satirical play about a quack …

I’ve always enjoyed the use of bowed instruments in rock and metal. They instill a sense of grandeur like no other instrument can, whether it be the quirky art rock mishap of The Red Paintings, the melancholic doom metal of Kauan, the …

Strictly Ballroom, the iconic Aussie film from 1992, has returned to life at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre. Acclaimed director Baz Luhrmann has approached his venture into musical theatre with all the colour and flamboyance we have come to expect in his films, but …