Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
With its core of kindness and compassion, a retelling of CINDERELLA was never more needed.
Determined to honour her mother’s dying words to “have courage and be kind.”, Ella, dubbed Cinderella by her ugly step sisters and their cruel and …
The legion of fans of the eclectic musical group Pink Martini will be keen to know that the new Mark Ruffalo starrer, INFINITELY POLAR BEAR is written and directed by Maya Forbes, sometime lyricist of the band and sister of …
In the fabulous book WHAT I LIKE ABOUT MOVIES, published by Faber & Faber, editor David Jenkins writes “Simon Pegg is the very definition of the kind of bloke you’d want to go down to the pub with.”
In his …
The Old Fitzroy delivers night owl’s a splendid slice of theatre with a production of PVT WARS by James McLure.
Set in a veteran’s hospital, three physically and psychologically damaged soldiers co-exist in fractious society, a kind of camaraderie held …
“I remember therefore I am” is a strident refrain in Milk Crate Theatre’s magnificently life affirming THIS HOUSE IS MINE.
Memory makes us who we are and memory makes for story. Story telling is necessary to record and share memory, …
AND NOW TO BED is the third in the Table Talk Trilogy commissioned and produced by one of Sydney’s most enduring and entertaining theatre companies, Subtlenuance.
Director Paul Gilchrist chose seven actors and paired them each with a writer. The …
The first thing that strikes you as you enter the theatre space at the Old Fitz for the latest staging of Marshall Napier’s FREAK WINDS is Lisa Mimmocchi’s set, walls Tuscan red with rising damp, paint peeling and damp bubbling, …
Crack comedian Carl Barron stars as the titular rib tickler in what should potentially be one of Australian cinema’s success stories of this year, MANNY LEWIS.
Adhering to the adage “write what you know”, Baron fashioned the story of the …
This preview features reviews of three of the strongest films at this year’s Festival:-
MICHAEL VERHOEVEN’S ‘LET’S GO’
LET’S GO takes its title from the words of an American GI who liberated Laura’s dad from a German death camp. He …
Director Volker Schlondorff dedicates his film version of DIPLOMACY, adapted from the French playwright Cyril Gély’s 2011 successful stage show, to the late American diplomat, Richard Holbrook. Holbrook was the man who, together with Swedish diplomat, Carl Bildt, brokered the …