Arts and Entertainment Archive

My six-hour journey to this year’s Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues is punctuated only by roadkill and the land itself, burnished and charred by bushfire. The trees lie out eerily by the roadside, black and skeletal, topped by amber leaves. After …

In my desperation to see Foals I was willing to travel abroad, and so booked tickets to their show at Le Zénith in Paris where the Oxford quintet are performing as part of Festival Les Inrocks, a series of live music nights …

Tamarama sculptor Lucy Humphrey won this year’s Sculpture by the Sea first prize with Horizon, a stunning glass globe that gave a crystal clear albeit distorted perspective to the beach surrounds. Another standout was New Zealand artist David McCracken’s Diminish Ascend – a …

Australia and America share many similarities historically. Both are young countries, both are built on a pioneering spirit, and both were quick to create their own mythologies, royalties and national characters from the very start. Taking in the Art Gallery of New …

Renowned for their frolicsome take on what could be misjudged as fustily antique Renaissance and Baroque music, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra has found soul mates in Ensemble La Chimera, an Argentine group formed by lutenist Eduardo Eduez to celebrate a fusion of …

From Tom Waites to Claude Debussy, 31-year-old Australian classical saxophonist Amy Dickson’s musical tendencies are as far reaching as dusk is from dawn. Dickson’s latest offering, titled Dusk and Dawn, is a stylish reworking of classical, jazz and popular tunes including Chopin’s “Nocturne”, Bellini’s …

Gotta love the street art out West where cars are thirsty and guns make nightmares sleep. These are real tuna heads in all their oily splendour bolted to a telegraph pole (formerly known as a tree). “Hey Henry, did you see the …

Based on the classic 1988 film, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, now on at Sydney’s Theatre Royal, returns the audience to memorable classic moments of this highly successful comedy. Directed by Roger Hodgman(Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Grey Gardens, Sweeny Todd) this all new Australian …

I don’t generally spend my Saturday nights watching middle-aged women pose nude in front of strategically placed baked goods and floral displays, but when I do I make sure it’s for an excellent cause. Epicentre Theatre Company’s production of Calendar Girls at …

Bursting with the energy of youth and fuelled by vodka, hormones and the addictive madness of first lust, Sydney Theatre Company’s Romeo and Juliet is a stunning modern interpretation that reworks Shakespeare’s classic love story into a tale of teenage rebellion fit for a …