All images by Ben Apfelbaum (c). Featured image of Matt Day receiving his award. Among the onlookers are Rose Byrne and Will Gluck.
TROPFEST, in its 25th year, survived the heatwave that spread over the Sydney region on the weekend.…
Perhaps the most visited and popular event of the recently completed Sydney Festival was THE BEACH. There were no rips, you could not drown nor suffer a sunburn if you attended.
THE BEACH, in fact, was a white coloured ‘pool’ …
The contemporary arts festival Cementa is back for 2017, offering an entirely FREE four-day showcase of independent and experimental arts spread across the New South Wales post industrial town of Kandos from Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 April.
Cementa17 will …
Every week of the Festival which runs from January to March, Short and Sweet features brilliant new plays with the very best returning to compete in March in the Gala Finals.
This very successful and now international ten minute …
Diversity within the LGBTIQ community? Search no further than the 24th Mardi Gras Film Festival program. Curated by Queer Screen, the range of topics and genres is truly impressive.
At the season launch last night, Queer Screen’s President Lisa …
DON’T CALL ME SON is an intimate film. The story, the characters, the setting … all personal. The filmmaking… close-up and exclusive of clutter in dialogue, plot and technique. One of the films chosen for Queer Screen’s 24th Mardi Gras …
CHAMPIONS is a stonkingly good dance work … with the common touch.
It’s a large scale work with 11 dancers filling a field of dreams inside the vast space and it begins like any large scale sporting event with the …
The Sydney Festival promises quality collaboration and a celebration of cutting-edge creativity. Nicole Lizée’s innovative program of manipulated image and music fulfils this promise several times over.
The Australian Art Orchestra (AAO) , which started under the leadership of Paul …
As the wafting smoke from the Welcome to Country drifts through the audience it seems to help me focus. It envelops so that the traffic speeding past seems distant. The smoke is pungent and yet soothing. It heightens my senses …
Short and Sweet Theatre Sydney is the largest festival of ten minute plays in the world. Now in its 16th year, the festival takes place over a period of three months starting in January each year. Around 160 brand …