the fantasticks

This was my first time seeing ‘The Fantasticks’, (music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones), the American show that remains the world’s longest ever running musical. The statistics for this show are extraordinary. The original 1960’s off Broadway

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love and other drugs

I finally got to see the much hyped film ‘Love and Other Drugs’, directed by Edward Zwick (‘Blood Diamond’, ‘Courage Under Fire’) and starring Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal. The film is an adaptation of the best selling autobiography by

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the wau wau sisters’ last supper

Remember Cyndi Lauper’s hit song, ‘Girls just want to have fun’?! Lauper’s sentiments define the show, ‘The Wau Wau Sisters Last Supper’, devised by two very outrageous, left of field New York half sisters, Tanya Gagna and Adrienne Truscott.

The

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short and sweet week 2, 2011

The Short and Sweet Festival, an annual celebration of playwriting in the short form, and one of Sydney’s major fringe theatre events, is in its second week at the Newtown Theatre.

Week 2 of the Top 110 plays showcased ten

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soap

Watching the wonderful show ‘Soap’ being performed at the Sydney Opera House one couldn’t but help ask the question, why hadn’t anyone thought of devising a dance piece around bathtime before? There’s just something so refreshing and meditative about luxuriating

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briefs

Are you in the mood for a bawdy, burlesque night’s entertainment…?! ‘Briefs’, the current show at the Studio theatre, Sydney Opera House, will fit the bill perfectly.

The show is the creation of a band of good-time, gay Samoan performers

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the leura shakespeare festival

For the second year in a row Sport for Jove productions, this time in association with the National Trust, are presenting the Leura Shakespeare Festival.

Once again, the intention is to perform Shakespeare outdoors in Leura’s beautiful Everglades Gardens. When

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chloe

Atom Egoyan’s new film ‘Chloe’ is recommended for filmgoers who love a powerful, contemporary relationship drama.

The film’s intriguing scenario sees an attractive, professional married woman, Dr Catherine Stewart (Julianne Moore), suspect her husband David Stewart (Liam Neeson), an academic,

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little fockers

This sequel, though not up to the standards of the original 2004 movie ‘Meet The Fockers’, is eminently entertaining though too schmaltzy and eager to please.

The gist of the film remains the frictions that can take place in families

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