10 July 2015
Sheers’ novel sounds like a straight thriller (‘I Saw A Man Who Did Something Terrible’?), and yet this is actually an intricately-structured psychodramatic…
10 July 2015
Doughty’s five-years-in-the-writing autobiographical volume sounds confronting and is, to a point, and yet this is less some catalogue of necromantic ugliness…
3 July 2015
Matt Byrne’s South Australian premiere of the Broadway musical version of Mary Poppins is very high quality amateur theatre. With beautiful orchestration…
3 July 2015
Adelaide has a healthy live literature scene with reading events that have run for decades (Friendly Street Poets), others that have had short but sweet runs…
28 June 2015
Las Vegas came to Adelaide last night and Her Majesty’s was rockin’ off her throne. The high-energy, super exciting, spectacularly talented American quartets…
27 June 2015
What do you do when you’ve got the heart of a diva and an amazing, versatile, and classically trained voice that can do Broadway, rock’n’roll, or opera, but…
25 June 2015
The Swing Sesh is an Adelaide dance school specialising in swing, jazz, and tap, and its performance showcase at the Nexus Cabaret was a delight for audience…
23 June 2015
Marcus K. Harmes and Martyn Conterio (Footprint Books) 2015, 100pp/99pp
23 June 2015
Adelaide’s Fergus Maximus (aka Ferg) has released Songs & Stories , a recording of his very first solo show, which took place at SCALA at The Austral Hotel in…
23 June 2015
Emer O’Toole is a doctor, a feminist and an actor – aspects which all come together in her book Girls Will Be Girls , to examine how we perform gender in our…
23 June 2015
Bonnett, a Professor of Social Geography, here investigates places peculiar, transitory, controversial and sometimes pretty much uncharted, which is still…
23 June 2015
Writer, teacher, poet and gaming specialist Owen’s first novel seems like a ‘Young Adult’ effort at heart, and yet there’s both a sophistication and a…