death defying acts

Gillian Armstrong is in good form with her fascinating film ‘Death Defying Acts’ which she has directed from an original screenplay by Brian Ward and Tony Grisoni.

The story is set late in Harry Houdini’s life. He is established as

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checkpoint zero

An illicit relationship that has it genesis at one of Israel’s security checkpoints dominates the action in Don Mamouney and Assad Abdi’s play Checkpoint Zero currently playing at Marrickville’s Sidetrack Shed Theatre.

Much to the anger of her colleagues, Israeli

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unfinished sky

Shortly, in each of the capital cities around Australia, the Australian Film Institute is hosting its 50th annual film festival. During the annual festival, members will get to see a vast array of Australian filmmaking, in different categories, and register

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catapult

Every year the New Theatre puts on a season of plays known as ‘New Directions’. During the season four young directors are given the opportunity to put four new plays written by either Australian or British playwrights.

Local writer Lachlan

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an oak tree

There are some radical, provocative works of theatre on in Sydney at the moment, none more so than British playwright Tim Crouch’s ‘An Oak Tree’, directed by Tanya Goldberg.

Yes, this is the two-hander where there is a different second

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spring awakening

Belvoir’s B Sharp program featured another interpretation of a classic with Simon Stone’s production for Melbourne’s Hayloft Theatre Company of German playwright Frank Wedekind’s play ‘Spring Awakening’.

The setting of Wedekind’s play is a small, provincial town at the turn

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our town at the zenith

The Epicentre Theatre’s most recent production was of Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’.

Thornton Wilder’s play ‘Our Town’ depicts New Hampshire village life between 1901 and 1913 through the stories of two regular, neighbouring families, the Gibbs and Webbs families. The

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the great

It’s great to see a young Australian playwright taking risks! Tony McNamara extends well out of his comfort zone with his new play, ‘The Great’. ‘The Great’ is an imaginative take on the life and times of the notorious Russian

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cut and paste

Carla Moore’s poignant new Australian drama Cut and Paste pivots around chronically ill 13 year old schoolboy Thomas (Cam McCallum), who will soon lose his battle against kidney failure without a healthy donor organ.

We meet his caring family as

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get smart

‘Get Smart- The Movie’ was always going to get the blowtorch treatment. How could a movie possibly do justice to one of television’s finest comedy series?!

Peter Segak directed the movie with Steve Carell playing Get Smart aka Agent 86,

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