game on:- real good for free

With the show GAME ON, two performing arts, Bobby Singh an Indian tabla and local contemporary dancer, Miranda Wheen, responding with contemporary dance, played real good for free for just over an hour to an appreciative audience.

There were times

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cowboys and aliens

The last time James Bond and Indiana Jones teamed up was in The Last Crusade. That was fun. In COWBOYS & ALIENS (M), the teaming isn’t as thrilling, entertaining, or witty.

COWBOYS & ALIENS is all hat and no cattle

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win win

The wrestle of daily life is at the core of WIN WIN the latest film from director Tom McCarthy whose previous films The Station Agent and The Visitor made my top ten in their respective years. It’s a fair bet

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robert green at the el rocco

Sydney cabaret singer Robert Green leaves no doubt where he’s coming from when at one time during his cabaret show at the El Rocco bar in Darlinghurst he sings, ‘Give me a song to sing and I’ll stay younger than

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drake the amazing and la dispute

There’s a double bill at the Darlinghurst Theatre that is soon coming to a close, which is well worth catching. The plays are DRAKE THE AMAZING and LA DISPUTE, written by talented Los Angeles playwright Andy Hyman and directed by

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jane eyre

Isn’t a remake of JANE EYRE a bit of a Bronte-saurus in this day and age? Everyone remembers the sections of Jane’s childhood, of Jane being a governess at Thornfield and falling in love with Mr. Rochester, and then bolting.

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the sum of us

There’s good reason why Christine Harris and HIT Productions, Australia’s premiere theatre touring company, have chosen Australian writer David Stevens’s play THE SUM OF US as one of this year’s touring productions. Stevens’s evergreen play (first performed off Broadway in

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songs for nobodies

A toilet cleaner fixes the dress for Judy Garland. A backup singer helps out Patsy Cline. A librarian worships her father and The Little Prince, whose lives obviously were saved by Edith Piaf? A junior journalist with the NY Times

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and no more shall we part

What a topic to write a play about! Euthanasia…What a way to start a play! A middle-aged couple, Pam (Linda Cropper) and Don (Russell Kiefel), are trying to calculate how long ago it was that she took the combination of

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and no more shall we part

Photo by Brett Boardman

We live in the age of multimedia bloat. Feverishly we try to cross borders that we have invented for ourselves. Everything needs to be super fast, super high, super far, super rich, super old, super long,

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