Arts and Entertainment Archive

The Saturday prior to this year’s Soundwave, Sydneysiders despaired – a weather system hanging off a tropical cyclone doused the city all day, leaving the roads between the Brisbane event and Sydney quite literally impassable in parts. Luckily, however, the sun decided …

This work is an eclectic showcase of 12 solo performances by some of the best dancers from the independent dance sector in Australia. Slow Dances for Fast Times opened at the Carriageworks on March 6. As always when visiting Carriageworks I was …

When Ray Charles’s 1957 debut album, Ray Charles was reissued in 1962, it was under the new title Hallelujah, I Love Her So. As well as being the title of one of the album’s most riveting and beguiling songs, the ambiguous phrase …

  The white night festival in Melbourne on Saturday 23 was extraordinary! Flinders Street turned into living musical light work as the buildings surrounding the Melbourne Exhibition Centre and Flinders Street Station were converted into masterpieces. The patterns projected in the light …

Any cinemagoer from the 1980s would know what to expect from action legends and bad-asses like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Jean-Claude Van Damme. We expect no mentally draining mind-twisting plots and no revoltingly scary fountains of blood— ahem, Mr Nolan and …

It is a challenge to the non-Aboriginal Australian to consider that inanimate material objects can hold cultural memory. Even though we seem to spend the majority of our time chasing material possessions, we rarely, if ever, look beyond an object’s practical use …

Some things take a very long time to change. If that were not so, Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy – which opened at the Darlinghurst Theatre on February 5 – would not continue to be so relevant. This very funny but deeply dark play …

Metropolitan Opera in HD, Cremorne, Orpheum Theatre Hector Berlioz, the remarkable revealer of mysteries, reveries and epic tales, draws for inspiration on Virgil’s account of the ancient civilizations of Troy, Carthage and their aggressors. This opera may not be for the attention-challenged …

If you like literary allusions, poetry, pop culture and word play you will enjoy Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, which opened at the Sydney Opera House on February 12. This erudite comedy has a large smattering of Auden, plenty of laughs and …

Most Sydneysiders have fond memories of visiting the Australian Museum on school excursions, exploring the wonders of nature and the ancient world. Now many of them are coming back for a totally new experience. For the fifth year now the Museum has …