A good friend of mine once gave me important counsel. He said, ‘Life is about one’s ability to manage chaos’. It is a profound truth. All the planning in the world doesn’t escape the fact that we really don’t know …
Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was first performed in Copenhagen, Denmark on December 21, 1879. It created a storm. It represented the radical start of a new kind of theatre, a theatre that addressed relevant social issues, instead of presenting …
Scott Silven, the talented and world renowned mentalist is now live on stage, at The Playhouse Theatre at Sydney Opera House.
Scott Silven is a very astute judge of the micro-gestures of each new person, and together with the many …
This coming weekend NIDA Open Day will welcome visitors who are curious or passionate about the arts and entertainment industries to explore NIDA’s many world-renown educational offerings.
From design, costume making, singing, set building, lighting, make-up, sound and stage management …
What was your first reaction when Mark Kilmurry contacted you to write an adaptation of A Doll’s House? Is the Ensemble Theatre a favourite Sydney venue?
I’ve always had wonderful experiences at the Ensemble in the past – is there …
Gone with the Wind is an iconic American story with the novel by Margaret Mitchell earning a Pulitzer Prize in 1937 and selling more than 30 million copies worldwide. The movie adaptation in 1939 was also a great success, winning …
FRIENDS! THE MUSICAL PARODY skips lightly past issues of predictability and copyright of the popular NBC sitcom which aired from 1994. Fans leave bubbling over with commentary and amazement at how the writers were able to deliver this in less …
The ever wise and poetic Lebanese writer Kahlil Gibran wrote in his classic collection of essays an essay on children. it starts:
‘Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for …
Cynthia’s Daddy developed a pill, a mother’s little helper, that made her family very rich but left her emotionally bankrupt. His absence created an abscess in his daughter, the pus of parental negligence, remedied only by her emulating his pharmaceutical …
I caught Rosie Meader’s musical EVERYBODY LOVES A WEDDING on its closing night at Marrickville’s Flight Path Theatre.
There was a warm, supportive atmosphere in the theatre with friends and family of the cast in the audience.
The musical is …