With some 500 million active users worldwide, David Fincher’s film ‘The Social Network’, looking at the life and times of Facebook creator, Mark Zuckerberg, has built in mass global appeal.
The Colorado born director makes the most of such a
The main character in writer and director Radu Mihaileanu’s film ‘The Concert’, Andre Simonovich Filipov, had been the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra when some thirty years ago, during the Communist period, he was fired for hiring Jewish musicians.
Good escapist entertainment is on offer with the new American film ‘Due Date’, directed by Todd Phillips from a story co-authored by Alan R Cohen and Alan Freedland.
The scenario sees Robert Downey Junior play highly strung father Peter Highman
In his long and celebrated career, Henri Szeps has shown a passion and commitment to performing solo plays. To date, he has performed four well received monologue shows, all at the Ensemble Theatre, loyal to the school from which he
In ‘Hamlet’, the Bard’s Prince of Denmark famously said, ‘the play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King’. For the performers in the Theatresports Cranston Cup Grand Final at the Enmore Theatre playing, big time, was the
One of his earlier plays, ‘Last Of The Red Hot Lovers’ is trademark Neil Simon, featuring a winning recipe of quick witted and sharply observed comedy.
The premise sets things up nicely. The main character is Barry Cashman, a clumsy
In ‘Looking Through A Glass Onion’, John Waters puts on his best Liverpuddlian accent, takes centre stage, backed by piano maestro Stewart D’Arrietta and the hot Glass Onion Band, (Paul Berton- guitar, Greg Henson-drums, Tony Mitchell-bass), and charts John Lennon’s
As a curtain raiser to the main show, Maggie Scott directed a touching production of local playwright Roger Gimblett’s lyrical one act play, ‘Horizons’.
This was an eloquently performed two hander about solace. Jenny Jacobs played Liz, a single, lonely
British comedienne Ursula Martinez’s show ‘My Stories, Your Emails’ is a slick solo show.
Martinez’s show pivots around her famous Hanky Panky striptease act that she performed at the Montreal Comedy Festival and was subsequently illegally filmed and posted on
Australian playwright Gary Baxter has crafted his new play ‘Woman’ out of a dark time in a young woman’s life.
In the prime of her life, with everything to look forward to, married, and with a new baby daughter, Annie