7 Sept 2015
Dirty Dancing is the 1987 romantic drama and box office smash hit starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. Written by Eleanor Bergstein and set in the summer…
7 Sept 2015
For over two decades Max Pellicano has been entertaining Australia and the world with his Elvis To The Max concerts. Born in Monte Carlo, of French and Italian…
6 Sept 2015
From Rodgers and Hammerstein to Mozart, Bernstein to Bizet and all the greats in between, this production soared from the very beginning. Featuring the sublime…
5 Sept 2015
This is a delightful play. Set in remote Ireland its focus is the narrow world view of inhabitants of a small village on the island of Inishmaan in the 1930s.…
4 Sept 2015
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is an American classic – an epic even – and this production is a thoroughly entertaining depiction of what is essentially…
2 Sept 2015
The first film properly directed by the late lamented Mario Bava (who also served as cinematographer and uncredited co-writer, as drawing from a novel by…
2 Sept 2015
Author/critic/memoirist/broadcaster/journalist/translator/you name it James’ latest and perhaps last tome is a collection of essays drawn from his ‘final’…
29 Aug 2015
Somewhat of a ‘cult superstar’, with more than two million followers on China’s social media networks, highly acclaimed avante-garde-theatre director Meng…
27 Aug 2015
Late great writer/director/producer Paul Mazursky’s somewhat forgotten fourth feature from back in 1974 is less of an ‘Issue’ movie (see his 1969 début Bob &…
24 Aug 2015
Joanna Rakoff was a popular speaker at the 2015 Adelaide Writers’ Week, where she spoke about her excellent memoir, My Salinger Year . Subsequent to the success…
24 Aug 2015
Bream’s beautiful tome attempts to encompass Dylan’s vast body of often variable work, from 1962’s Bob Dylan to 2015’s inexplicable Shadows In The Night , with…
24 Aug 2015
Astle, legendary crossword setter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and an author of several books on wordplay themes (no less than Geoffrey Rush has…