Arts and Entertainment Archive

So here we are at the Kensington street art precinct: puzzled characters caught red handed…somnolent and alert…sad sweet and dark…ready to introduce to a new world a shrug, a wink, an awkward smile, exclamation point – Boom!…the little beat boxer takes a …

The annual Hola Mexican Film Festival has arrived in Australia for its 7th visit.  First stop Melbourne, the festival hits Sydney on October 25 before making its way to Adelaide and Perth. The event will kick off with a screening of Mariachi …

Salome, an opera in one act, was written by Richard Strauss who based it on Oscar Wilde’s atypical and rarely performed play of the same name. Wilde wrote the play in French although it was translated into German for the opera adaptation. …

People seem amazed when I tell them that I saw Led Zeppelin at the Sydney Showground in 1972, when the four rock deities descended from the sky to perform for us and then returned to Asgard (or maybe London). Could it ever …

“Don’t quibble, Sibyl,” quips Toby Schmitz as Elyot in Private Lives. Sibyl, Elyot’s new bride, has good reason to complain. Her husband is a rakish cad, with his eyes on another woman: his ex-wife Amanda in fact. Ralph Myers brings Private Lives …

Emma Matthews has joined a distinguished list of Australian sopranos who have tested the limits of their vocal dexterity in capturing the coloratura hysterics of Lucia di Lammermoor. This list includes prima donnas Nellie Melba and Joan Sutherland. For her efforts Ms …

Summertime is usually considered the prime season for festivals. Music events like Falls, Big Day Out and Homebake are the much anticipated festivals in summer when the weather starts to heat up and mangos are in season. But this weekend also boasts …

Tokyo-born soprano Hiromi Omura received rapturous applause when she sang the haunting aria from Madama Butterfly, “Un Bel Di Vedremmo”, at the Sydney Opera House last night. As  Cio-Cio-San, the trusting child bride of cavalierly insensitive and caddish US Naval lieutenant, Benjamin …

Wielding a neon tube, spitting venom and tugging coquettishly at the hem of her trademark school uniform, no-one was better at being bad than Divinyls front woman Chrissy Amphlett. The snarling pout, the eye-grazing fringe and the Lolita-esque sex appeal made for …

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 …