Monthly Archives: August, 2017

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Theatre Now Review: The Show Goes On [Bernadette Robinson]

The Harbour City shivers with the last throws of winter as we scurry down the boardwalk towards the Opera House. There are also shivers...

Theatre Now Review – Modern Jesus

Sydney The excited, opening-night hum of the foyer is quickly swallowed by eerie silence as we enter onto the stage of Fledgling Theatre Company’s Modern...

Theatre Now Sydney Review: Blood Wedding

Sydney Pulsing with the atmosphere of an instant classic and performed with more heart than most independent theatre, UTS Backstage's Blood Wedding opened last weekend...

Con Nats Talks with Director Amanda Sthers about MADAME Opening across Australia Aug 17

On the Town's Con Nats spoke to director Amanda Sthers, who came to Sydney for the world premier of Madame.    Con Nats' Interview https://youtu.be/HP7l82_Fwcg   See Con's review...

Movie Review: Madame

What a tiptop cast writer-director Amanda Sthers has assembled for this French comedy. Ana (Toni Collette), the Madame of the house, is Harry's (Harvey...

OTT Movie Reviews: Ghost Story

Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara have just bought a nice house. It's a two-bedroom bungalow with charm, warmth and a resident ghost, but it...

OTT Movie Review: Hotel Coolgardie

If, as Paul Keating once said, Australia is the "arse-end of the world", its sphincter would be Coolgardie. It's a mining town just west of...

OTT Movie Review: A Quiet Passion

Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) was a poet who was more celebrated after she died at age 56 from Wright's disease. (Why you'd want give...

On The Page Review: The Late Show by Michael Connelly

Book Review Sonya Kerr As a huge consumer of crime fiction, it was surprising to me to realise that I had never actually read anything...

Book Review: The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. – Adelle Waldman

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. follows the twenty-first century love life of a wholly unlikeable but completely relatable New York writer, Nate. While...

Abigail’s Bonus Book : All The Light We Cannot See

All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr It is very rare that I read a World War II story that I don’t find...