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
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
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
The new American film, ‘The 40 Year Old Virgin’, covers old territory, the quest for a man, in this case, Andy Stitzer, to lose his virginity. There is a different slant, Andy happens to be an ancient 40 years old!
How does one objectively review a production that has been engaged in so passionately by its director Emma Rice?! Rice has described her production of ‘Tristan and Yseult as ‘her letter to love. It speaks of longing and giving, abandon
I went to see ‘Atlanta’, the first play by one of Australia’s leading playwrights, Joanna Murray-Smith, currently receiving its first Sydney production. Help Productions has chosen ‘Atlanta’ as its inaugural production with the play being performed at the inner city
Every year the Ensemble theatre stages one of its main productions at the Sydney Opera House’s Playhouse Theatre. This year’s is American playwright Richard Alfieri’s ‘Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks’. Alfieri’s play is a two hander, directed by Ensemble
Church sex scandals not only find it hard to stay out of the newspapers but also find it hard to stay out of the theatre. The Sydney Theatre Company are currently putting on a production of prolific American playwright John
Let me entertain you….and that’s exactly what Jewish New Zealand comedienne, Deb Filler does in her vastly enjoyable autobiographical one woman show ‘Filler Up!’ at the Ensemble theatre.
Filler was a wonderfully warm and relaxed performer. Her show was held
The dramatic canvas for William Nicholson’s ‘The Retreat from Moscow’ is a marital breakdown. Edward (Norman Coburn) and Alice (Sandy Gore) have been married for 33 years. Edward is a history teacher, happy with doing his daily crossword and engrossed