Arts and Entertainment Archive

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 …

Whenever I hear the saxophone used in classical orchestral music – after years of digging the instrument in jazz and rock with all its attendant growls, snarls, bleeds and honks – it sounds like a completely different instrument to its earthier-music sibling. Its …

If you enjoy an authentic period play and feel like a trip back to the 1950s head down to the Sydney Theatre to catch Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced before October 27 or see it at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre from October 30. The …

The Renaissance Players are back on home turf and will play their next concert series in the Great Hall, Sydney University, on Saturday October 5 and Sunday October 6. The 35th Runnymede Pop Festival is a unique concert of serious, devout, comic, …

A stellar all-Australian cast will bring to life Agatha Christie’s A Murder Is Announced from September 27 with acclaimed actor Judi Farr playing the legendary Miss Marple on the Australian stage for the very first time. This Australian tour, which kicks off …

The glitz and glamour of the 1920s will come alive on Sydney Harbour when the Sydney Philharmonia Festival Chorus and Orchestra celebrates the music of Cole Porter this week. Under the inspired guidance of conductor Brett Weymark some of America’s most famous …

Drawing has often been seen as the poor cousin of painting. Smaller, more spindly, less colourful – drawing and graphic arts such as printmaking, by their nature, can lack painting’s drama and spectacle. But graphic art has its own power and charm. …