Alan has worked in the media business for nearly 20 years as an editor, writer and sub editor across a large number of newspaper, magazine and online newsletter titles. He has had a passion for stage and screen for as long as he can remember and has, he admits, never been backwards in coming forwards when it comes to having an opinion. His interest in the arts runs across the full spectrum, from opera, ballet and musicals, to symphony concerts to large music festivals, pub gigs and just about everything in between.
Have you seen that one-man play paying homage to the TV show about the dying high school teacher who teams with a former student to cook the purest crystal meth ever made in the southwest US to make money for …
Still life paintings by Mishka Borowski & Belinda Johnstone will be on show at the Sheffer Gallery in Darlington from next Wednesday.
The preview has been timed to coincide with Art Month’s, Art at Night Redfern /Chippendale, so it’s the …
As far as one-man shows go, they don’t get much more frenetic than FULLY COMMITTED.
Written by Becky Mode and set in a dilapidated, windowless office in the basement of an award-winning Upper East Side Manhattan restaurant, this quintessentially New …
George Bizet’s CARMEN has been wowing opera-goers for over 140 years now with its alluring mixture of the unpredictable and dangerous, love and loathing, and, as the program notes state, “the ultimate femme fatale is back to stamp her feet, …
It’s a bit of a well-worn cliché for a reviewer to state that a particular film deprived them of a certain amount of time (in this case a mercifully short 84 minutes) they’ll never get back, but for want of …
It’s not often you walk out of a performance completely lost for words, but even those of the superlative variety fail to do justice to EMPIRE by Spiegelworld, which opened last night in Sydney. My mate who was lucky enough …
The big hair and tight pants may be long gone, but Bon Jovi’s show on Saturday night at the Olympic Stadium was big in every other way: big sound, big visuals (including a very big car), big anthems – big …
COKE AND SYMPATHY is billed as a 90-minute rock and roll cabaret show based around the stories of Wild Delilah, groupie and rock and roll historian “who loses her heart to an enigmatic and destructive rock guitarist on his one-man …
Strangely alluring would be one way to describe SUMMERTIME IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, now playing at the Stables Theatre in Darlinghurst.
Part drag show (well, very large part drag show}, part ‘Streetcar Named Desire’, part ‘Gone with the Wind’, …
BLACKFISH, a documentary about an orca, or killer whale, that literally becomes a killer, offers a powerful insight into the lives of these majestic creatures and the consequences of what can happen when they are ripped apart from their intricate …