hart to heart

Naomi Hart’s ‘Hart to Heart: Tales from the Big Apple’ was a fine cabaret show that played the innovative, intimate El Rocco nightclub at Bar Me in Sydney’s King Cross.

Naomi, together with her piano player, and musical director, Paul

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hamlet

I caught Mark Kilmurry’s impressive touring production of William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ during its season at the Ensemble theatre. As well as being the Associate Director of the Ensemble Theatre, Kilmurry has his own theatre company, the Studio Company. His Company

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dissident, goes without saying

The first production for this year of Wharf 2Loud, a program wing of the Sydney Theatre Company, was Michel Vinaver’s play ‘Dissident, Goes Without Saying’, adapted and directed by Andrew Upton.

Vinaver’s play starts with Helene and her son Philippe

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rumour has it

Rumour has it in the film of the same name, directed by Rob Reiner from the screenplay by Ted Griffin, that Charles Webb based his novel ‘The Graduate’ on the experiences of a well to do Pasadena family, the Huttinger’s.

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russian dolls

Two popular cult films have been released sequels within the last year. Richard Linklater brought out his successful sequel to ‘Before Sunrise’ with ‘Before Sunset’ with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reprising their roles. Now Cedric Klapisch has released his

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hound of the baskervilles

Loretta Tolnai’s production for the Genesian Theatre Company of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic tale ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ was an entertaining production.

The story is set in Victorian England at a place called Baskerville Hall, a fictional location

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walk the line

From seeing ‘Capote’ to then seeing the ‘Walk The Line’, the story of American country music legend, Johnny Cash. As one would expect, the story of a popular music legend is a very different one from the story of a

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stuff all happens

Six years after the Wharf Revue teams’ first show for the Sydney Theatre Company the four member team of Jonathon Biggins, Drew Forsythe, Genevieve Lemon and Phil Scott, are still firing their satirical shots.
Their show covered a lot of

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cinderella man- reviewer david kary

Ron Howard’s ‘Cinderella Man’ is one of the big Hollywood films of the year. It sets out to be a classic bio pic. Howard took the score/script written by Cliff Hollingsworth, based on the life and times of working class

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me and you and everyone i know

American performance artist Miranda July’s first film ‘Me and You and Everyone I know’ won the special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. I couldn’t think of a more apt opening description of this

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