Arts and Entertainment Archive

  I see it first from a distance. It is framed by the doorway and engulfed in bright light. I can’t tell what it is yet, but I do know it has drawn my attention. As I approach, I notice a young …

It’s 2005, and some of Sydney’s most violent riots are about to take place in Cronulla. The Capulets and Montagues are at each other’s throats again, this time in the guise of the Skips vs the Lebs. The floorboards are creaking and …

Moving Parts, which opened on July 25 at the NIDA Parade theatre,  is an intense two-hander with two excellent actors facing off: Colins Friels and Josh McConville. This is a play about time: the ravages of time and people marking time, but …

What a surprise when Ian and Ben visit their recently widowed father in Sydney and discover a fresh new fiancée from the United States. He is 75, worth $100 billion and she is 32, ex-beauty queen, passionate Christian and member of the …

How to be a photojournalist in a conflict zone? Renowned Australian photographers Kate Geragthy and Stephen Dupont answered this question at the New South Wales State Library on July 23. Introduced by award-winning Sydney Morning Herald journalist Kate McClymont, the talk revealed …

With the federal election date likely to be called this weekend, The Hansard Monologues is a great refresher for those still uncertain about their vote. The verbatim play is a fascinating recap of the 43rd Parliament of Australia, bringing the remarkable highlights and …

English playwright Peter Schaffer’s speculations on a gruesome crime in which a seventeen-year-old blinded six horses in a small town near Suffolk draw out bizarre confidences between Alan Strang and his psychiatrist. It’s the controversial drama that’s previously attracted the talents of Anthony …

Italian baroque violinist Stefano Montanari has wowed audiences in the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s latest concert Celebrazione! now at the City Recital Hall, Angel Place. His violin sang, danced and cried as Montanari, dressed in tight leather pants and boots, delighted both the …

One family is a well-to-do southern suburbs family, the other an immigrant family from Sydney’s west. Older, cooler heads – and police commissioner Prince – try vainly to turn back the tide of hatred, passion and bloodshed.  A beach party crashed, insults …

It’s been six years since the release of Hot Fuzz, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s last offering in the non-episodic trilogy of films known as the “Blood and Cornetto Trilogy”. Along with their referencing a different flavour Cornetto ice cream flavour, each …