Arts and Entertainment Archive

Eva (Meredith Penman) washes up on the shore of an Australian seaside town, missing a finger and her memory. She is carried to safety in the open arms of Bob (Iain Sinclair), a benevolent Aussie bloke. Bob offers Eva dry clothes, a …

Fresh and feisty new comedies featuring Springboard winners Amelia Ryan and duo Justin Locke and Jordan Shanks will debut this Saturday night as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival. Amelia Ryan’s exhilarating straight-from-the-shoulder comedy cabaret Amelia Ryan is a Storm in a D-Cup will entertain Fringe-lovers …

The Sydney Latin American Film Festival filled Sydney with love from September 6 to 16. The opening night of the festival began at the Dendy Quays then continued with a fiesta at the Paragon city bar, filling a full-cinema crowd with tequila …

Water is an engrossing production whose pace does not let up throughout its 85 interval-free minutes. Its use of multimedia is both inventive and effective, providing a complexity and depth that fills the stage. A collaborative work, Water brings together the UK’s innovative Filter …

The story of US pop singer Karen Carpenter is well-known: the squeaky clean all-American girl-next-door who, with her brother Richard as the duo The Carpenters, had sunny hit after sunny hit during the cloudy 1970s. What is maybe not so well known …

Jazz singer Crystal Barreca has found her groove. For a few years now I have had the pleasure of hearing Barreca singing around Sydney’s (and now Canberra’s) jazz spots, cafes and holes-in-the-wall. I most recently remember hearing her up front of the …

Six years ago, when Californian Jonah Matranga was last in Australia, he played at the ill-fated Hopetoun and the now re-ignited Annandale. Spotting the Sando down the hill on King Street, with the recent addition of a bright red sale sign, did he …

Women play a big role in the 69th Venice International Film Festival which kicked off on August 29 and will run at the Venice Lido until September 8, writes Ilaria Bettinelli. Directed by Alberto Barbera and organised by La Biennale di Venezia, …

Listening to After All, the new release by young Melbourne altoist James Carter, I was taken back to the wonderful Ron Carter Trio gig at Sydney’s Basement in June last year. Like Ron Carter’s spry unit, the James Carter group also works without a …

The Russian Resurrection Film Festival opened at Sydney’s Chauvel Cinema on August 30. Festival director Nikolas Maksymow has been at the helm of the largest Russian film festival outside Russia since its inception in 2003. This year the festival will present 25 recent …