Arts and Entertainment Archive

Siena Fagan is a coffee addict Whenever an assignment is feeling a bit static, I pack a bag and set myself up at a coffee shop. Whether it’s the buzz of my skim cappuccino, the hustle and bustle of busy customers, or …

More than 300 athletes from over 40 nations are in Western Sydney this week for the 2025 ICF Slalom World Championships, with racing underway at Penrith Whitewater Stadium. The event was officially launched last Friday at Taronga Zoo, with slalom icons gathering …

The Brisbane Lions have cemented themselves as the AFL’s dominant force of the modern era, backing up last year’s demolition of Sydney with a commanding 47-point grand final win over the Geelong Cats. Unlike 2024’s one-sided contest, the start of this game …

Sam Shepard’s scorching look at sibling rivalry, masculinity and aspects of the American Dream is darkly comedic. Austin (Darcy Kent) has agreed to housesit his mother’s place in a remote part of California while she takes a holiday because it will provide …

Wildly funny and completely outré, Garry Starr’s Classic Penguins had the audience in fits of laughter all the way through his 70-minute foray into the world of books. Starr’s ‘mission’ is to save literature by performing every Penguin Classic novel ever written. …

Playwright Melanie Tait has penned a paeon to A Country Practice with this supremely entertaining take on what happens when a writing team decides it has to up the ratings of an already exceedingly popular soap by ‘killing’ off a beloved young …

In this immersive theatre event, audiences – let’s call them ‘inductees’ – are invited to ‘seize the night’ (carpe noctem, as opposed to carpe diem) and indulge in the hedonistic pleasures of ‘the society’, itself heralded as ‘neat, discreet and elite’. To …

  ‘Bomb away!’ said Major Thomas Ferebee aboard his B-29 aircraft on 6 August 1945, as the atomic bomb dropped into Hiroshima and destroyed the city and killed up to 140,000 people. Hisashi Inoue’s The Face of Jizo opens three years after …

The Takács Quartet’s performance at Sydney’s City Recital Hall took the audience on a sonic journey through both famous chamber pieces and uncharted contemporary works. Made up of Edward Dusinberre and Harumi Rhodes (violins), Richard O’Neil (viola) and András Fejar (cello), the …

  El 47, this year’s centrepiece at the Spanish Film Festival, is a poignant biopic that shines a light on a little-known piece of Spanish history in the aftermath of Franco’s dictatorship. Inspired by a true story, Marcel Barrena’s film follows the …