Mother and son entertainers, Toni Lamond and Tony Sheldon, have teamed up together to come with a fine, well presented show, ‘Times of My Life’, documenting Toni’s colourful life in the industry.
‘Times of My Life’ had a winning recipe.
‘Lotte’s Gift’ at the Ensemble theatre was a lovingly realised, warm, personal, intimate piece of theatre.
The play had a wonderful theme, the realisation of a wonderful gift that took three generations of a famly to come to fruition. The
If I had only seen one thing at the Sydney Festival, the Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg’s production of the classic Anton Chekhov play ‘Uncle Vanya’ would have been the one I would have chosen to see. This was
Back to Back theatre’s ‘Small Metal Objects’ was one of my highlights of the Festival so far. It was just so different from anything I had seen before.
This is what happens! The audience sits in a small grandstand set
With his latest film ‘Babel’ Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s latest film ‘Babel’ has added another outstanding drama to his list of credits which include ‘Amores Perros’ and ’21 Grams’. ‘Babel’ has deservedly been nominated for multiple Academy Awards.
‘Babel’
Some of my favourite American movies have been documentaries. A few years ago there was the film ‘Spellbound’ about the 1999 National Spelling Bee. The film featured eight very different teenagers competing to win the national spelling competition. The film
Jonathon Dayton and Valerie Faris’s ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ is one of the great feel good movies, and its fitting to include in this write-up for the last edition of Stage Whispers for the issue.
‘Little Miss Sunshine’ focuses on the
Some theatre shows may be a little ambiguous in nature but let me tell you, Patrick Marber’s ‘Closer’ just isn’t one of them. One knows exactly what one is getting with Marber’s play. ‘Closer’ is an intense, confronting look at
The Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s ‘Woman In Mind’ at the Sydney Opera House was one of the strongest dramas of the year.
Noni Hazelhurst plays Susan, a forty something woman who is in an unhappy marriage, and
For their last show of the year Belvoir’s Company B presented Casey Bennetto’s musical ‘Keating!’. The show is an expanded production of the one that Bennetto had huge success with at the 2005 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. I saw the