Arts and Entertainment Archive

Festival director loves his new gig

When the Sydney Film Festival opened with the world premiere of Australian comedy Not Suitable for Children, it was with a new director at the helm. Nashen Moodley, born in South Africa in 1978, comes to Sydney with a distinguished portfolio in film programming …
Hairspray Review

Hairspray Review

Bright and bubbly musical Hairspray will take you back to the 1960s and have you itching to shake your legs and tap your feet. Director Chris Scarpellino skilfully brings the large scale production to a small venue, uncovering the cheerful town of …

In conversation with Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and most recently, The Marriage Plot, spoke to a full house at the City Recital Hall in Sydney last Thursday night. He related some of his personal experiences that inspired …
Spoons at six paces in comedy battle

Spoons at six paces in comedy battle

New South Wales will win this year’s Theatresports National Championships – by fair means or foul. The dysle-X-ia Men – just like the X-Men but can’t spell – will go to battle for Australia’s premiere state in the ‘State of Origin’ comedy …

Bach Eternal plays on

It’s not every evening one enjoys the extravagance of 33 magnificent voices sharing the stage with 33 musicians at the top of their form. Young, often handsome, it’s more than apparent that neither the Brandenburg Orchestra nor their Choir makes the slightest …
See-Saw

See-Saw

 “Eye On The Street” is (dead)icated to Street Art from the inner city havoc and the downtown city blues. We begin with someone going by the name “See Saw”. This image was taken captive at a Camperdown bus shelter. What seems to …