Arts and Entertainment Archive

Whether you’re in the mood for a holistic relaxing weekend, a tepee experience, fancy dress parade or just want to brush up on your Bollywood dancing techniques, Peats Ridge has you covered. Boasting a three-night sustainable music and arts program just two …

Dan Freeman from Fanny Lumsden and the Thrillseekers, caught up with Dianne Cohen to talk about their upcoming gig at this year’s Peats Ridge Festival. We’re in Juice’n Java in Surry Hills where all the locals go for lunch and seem to …

The name’s Craig; Daniel Craig! Before you accuse me of using the wrong phrase, let me say this: Skyfall is being touted as the best Bond movie, ever. And who else but Craig could recreate Ian Fleming’s iconic British secret-agent-with-sexy-panache character to …

Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain of 1917 – his infamous display of a porcelain urinal (signed R Mutt) as a work of art – was the Big Bang of all art that followed. Art could now be Thought and not necessarily Action. That was …

Purity. There’s not much of it about in the modern world. In fact, there seems a conscious effort to move away from purity towards distortion, clumping amalgamation and cloying over-decoration. This trend is so all-pervasive that you only notice all this impurity …

The Bell Shakespeare production of Molière’s The School For Wives is absolutely hilarious. Director Lee Lewis has brought a modern touch to this tale of infidelity in verse based on an excellent translation by Australian playwright Justin Fleming that conveys the wit …

Lush, seductive, subversive, electrifying, jaw-dropping and freakishly fun. Yes, you’re in for a treat when Moira Finucane brings the Glory Box Edition of her cabaret hit to Sydney’s Seymour Centre on November 15. Against a backdrop of tassled lanterns, satin brocades and …

Cirque Du Soleil’s latest extravaganza, OVO, injects you with the sudden desire to rush out and purchase a gymnast trampoline, become a body contortionist or even foot-juggle kiwi fruit in perfect unison with a friendly juggling ensemble. The performance celebrates the Brazilian …

A century after his birth and twenty years after his death the work and life of legendary musician John Cage will be celebrated in a two-day festival at the Sydney Opera House next weekend. A number of compositions in honour of Cage, …

The wonderful time machine that is the modern period ensemble is one of the true delights of music today. When that ensemble has as much fun as the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the delight is doubled. Under the direction (and buoyant spirit) of …