‘Democracy is the will of the people’.
A lot has changed in the twenty five years since Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphrey uttered his concluding ‘Yes, Minister’ in the iconic much loved BBC sitcom of the same name. The public’s
They don’t come much better than this! For Sondheim fans this is sheer magic, with exceptional performances by a stellar Broadway cast – glorious theatrical heaven.
Filmed at Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Centre in New York in April
John Madden’s film, from the best selling novel by Deborah Moggach, follows a group of British retirees who decide to outsource their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (M) is a bizarre odyssey tale featuring Sean Penn as a former rock star called Cheyenne – think a cross between Alice Cooper and Robert Smith of The Cure – who is benevolently and benignly
Fast, fascinating and fluid, this is a delightful work that showcases four excellent dancers.
Choreographer Anton has brought together four terrific dancers ( Kristina Chan, Robbie Curtis, Sophia Ndaba, Timothy Ohl) in a work that is a collage of highly
Kate Raison, in a part originally written for and performed by Maureen Stapleton on Broadway in 1970, cajoles, rages, flirts and taunts as Evy Meara, in one of the great American playwright Neil Simon’s darker plays, THE GINGERBREAD LADY.
Evy
In Louie Nowra’s play COSI (1971), Lewis (Aston Campbell) is a fresh theatre school graduate, strapped for cash, who takes on the job of getting a group of psych patients at a psychiatric facility to put on a show. The
Playwright Jane Bodie, whose work made such a strong impression last year with Griffin’s production of THIS YEAR’S ASHES, continues to have a presence on the Sydney theatre scene with with Mad March Hare’s production of her award winning set
Fungible. Sounds like a mushroom mish mash not something I’d instantly associate with Rin Tin Tin, arguably the world’s most famous dog.
Fungible is the word Susan Orlean uses with proclivity in her highly entertaining biography of the dog who
Animal instincts of homo sapien Hollywood are given a good airing in Scotty Bower’s unabashed biography, FULL SERVICE, MY ADVENTURES IN HOLLYWOOD AND THE SECRET SEX LIVES OF THE STARS (GROVE PRESS).
Bi-sexual octogenarian Bowers outs many famous names, all