Julius Caesar with Samantha Clarke from Pinchgut Opera
Every now and then the stars align perfectly to produce a masterpiece. And so it is with Handel’s Julius Caesar, often considered one of the greatest - if not the...
Cody Simpson joins Guys and Dolls in Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour
Four years after putting his singing career on hold to chase a spot in the Australian Olympic swimming team, Cody Simpson is set to return to the stage, with one...
Ronny Chieng stars in Interior Chinatown
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size“The first person in the scene of a procedural is either a victim or a witness,” says Willis Wu as he hauls rubbish...
Feted in France, artist Anne Dangar was ignored at home. Until now
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeWhen artist Anne Dangar died 70 years ago, villagers followed her horse-drawn hearse to the local cemetery that overlooked the Rhone river and...
Perfectly cast, Broadway musical is made better and brighter on screen
WICKED★★★★PG. 160 minutes. In cinemas Thursday, November 21There is no disputing the popularity of the stage version of Wicked. It’s been a Broadway favourite for the past 20 years as...
Two friends from across the divide try to make sense of the horrors in the West Bank
NO OTHER LANDRating MA, 95 minutesLimited cinemas from Thursday★★★½There is a moment late in this documentary about Palestinian resistance to Israel forcibly expelling villagers from farming land in the West...
Elliott Mintz recounts bizarre friendship with John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Much of the detail he shares about them is already woven into the fabric of their legend. Their obsession with their weight. Their terror of surveillance and deportation. Their anguishes...
How we turned an ‘unadaptable’ story into a blockbuster film
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeThe year was 1996 and my friend, Uberto Pasolini, an independent producer, was standing on a street in London’s Soho giving away tickets...
Netflix’s live sport venture nets Beyonce, Travis Scott
It was a flashback to the technically disastrous livestream of the Love is Blind reunion episode last year.But for Netflix, there were more benefits to screening the fight than just...
Ali Smith creates a dystopian near-future that is alarmingly familiar
More than 60 years ago, the post-Marxist art critic Harold Rosenberg wrote that history’s inherent irony was that “it changes men into themselves by making them seem something else”. So...