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  ‘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 …

Labor’s unexpected huge win on May 3 has exploded the federal coalition creating a fracture between the National and Liberal parties over key policy disagreements. The move raised questions about Nationals leader David Littleproud MP’s leadership who defended the decision saying the …

“It’s not too sweet” is perhaps the highest praise a dessert can earn from an Asian palate. Since moving to Australia for study, I’ve lost count of the times I’ve fallen for a dessert spot, tempted by social media hyping the not-too-sweet …

This is an absolute gem of a play. The language is delightfully eloquent, full of humour and insights along with some wonderful turns of phrase, the subject matter universal and the two cast members play their parts beautifully. Fifty-somethings Mal and Mairead …

  Berlin’s Signum Saxophone Quartet face the same challenge as any cover band. How do you stay true to the original and push the boundaries enough to say something new? The quartet’s performance at City Recital Hall with celebrated Australian soprano singer …

  Deliciously snarky, both in the performances and Harold Pinter’s precise dialogue, the first play in this double bill, The Lover, lays bare power dynamics in a bourgeois marriage. Set in the 1960s, the scene is a perfectly tidy living room, presided …

Big Girls Don’t Cry is a snapshot of Redfern in the 1960s, told from a First Nations perspective. Big things were on the horizon: the 1967 referendum, for one, but before that the upcoming 1966 Indigenous Debutante Ball to be held at …

Game review | Mingyue Yao After leaving their cubicle job and inheriting an old farm from their grandfather, players arrive in Stardew Valley, ready to escape the fast pace of modern life. Here, no matter the passing days or seasons, the next …

  Leona (Jixin) Li, Oliver Wen Audiences at Chatswood’s Concourse Theatre were treated to a night of fun discovery of Chinese Modern History with “Donald’s Inferno,” a comedy stage production written and directed by Jon-Claire Lee. The show ran on December 10 …

This is a memory play says Tom at the beginning of The Glass Menagerie, as he promises to give ‘truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion’ and his soft-spoken recollections and the lyricism of Tennessee Williams’ words draw us into his story …