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Wildly funny and completely outré, Garry Starr’s Classic Penguins had the audience in fits of laughter all the way through his 70-minute foray into the world of books. Starr’s ‘mission’ is to save literature by performing every Penguin Classic novel ever written. …

Playwright Melanie Tait has penned a paeon to A Country Practice with this supremely entertaining take on what happens when a writing team decides it has to up the ratings of an already exceedingly popular soap by ‘killing’ off a beloved young …

In this immersive theatre event, audiences – let’s call them ‘inductees’ – are invited to ‘seize the night’ (carpe noctem, as opposed to carpe diem) and indulge in the hedonistic pleasures of ‘the society’, itself heralded as ‘neat, discreet and elite’. To …

  ‘Bomb away!’ said Major Thomas Ferebee aboard his B-29 aircraft on 6 August 1945, as the atomic bomb dropped into Hiroshima and destroyed the city and killed up to 140,000 people. Hisashi Inoue’s The Face of Jizo opens three years after …

The Liberals and Nationals coalition was restored on May 28 – just a week after the Coalition’s dramatic ‘’breakdown”. The reunification came when Nationals leader David Littleproud and Liberal leader Sussan Ley announced that they renewed the coalition agreement. Liberal leader Sussan …

  Musical chemistry is difficult to explain in words. It is a mysterious communication between two players that is felt only in the music itself. Musica Viva’s Northern Lights at the City Recital Hall certainly emphasised the power of musical chemistry, moving …

Cinemagoers packed into Palace Cinema Norton Street on Thursday night for the opening of the 2025 HSBC Spanish Film Festival in Sydney. With the hum of acoustic guitar welcoming us into the cinema, along with the familiar smells of fresh popcorn and …

It’s hard to imagine Skank Sinatra (the alter persona  of Jens Redda) as anything other than a glamorous, over-the-top cabaret queen. In this show, which has a very short run at Qtopia in Darlinghurst, we are treated to a brief synopsis of …

Check into another world when you book yourself into L’Hotel. It’s a head-spinning mix of burlesque, cabaret and circus expertise with artists on stage, dancing around diners’ tables and performing jaw-dropping acrobatics overhead. Add to that live music and an atmosphere that …

  ‘This Is Our Happy Place’ declares the sign on the classroom where the school’s Executive Committee (all parent volunteers, of course) are gathered to discuss and pontificate on matters of importance. Anyone who has ever attended a committee or a strata …