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tick, tick … BOOM! (Comedy Theatre) – musical theatre review

Jonathan Larson wrote the smash hit Broadway musical Rent. How he got there involved pain and persistence. That’s the subject…

This Wild Wild Country (Inga Vesper) – book review

Inga Vesper’s debut novel The Long, Long Afternoon was a crime novel set in a perfect Los Angeles suburb in…

Wittenoom (Red Stitch Theatre) – theatre review

Wittenoom, the former town and declared contaminated site in the Pilbara region of Western Australia was, in short, a death…

True Spirit

The story made world news. On 15 May 2010, 16-year-old Jessica Watson became the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe…

Family Values (Queensland Theatre) – theatre review

Queensland Theatre can’t go wrong opening its 2023 season with this entertaining and sometimes searing comedy-drama from the prodigious David…

Mary Poppins (Her Majesty’s Theatre) – musical theatre review

In a word, Mary Poppins is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! The theatrics – the staging, set design and magic introduced into this Disney and…

Knock at the Cabin – movie review

In M. Night Shyamalan’s intriguing psychological thriller, Knock at the Cabin,  Kristen Cui plays eight-year-old Wen – a bright young…

The Whale – movie review

The Whale is the film that has excited me more than any other since lockdown. While the story itself is…

My Darkest Prayer (S. A. Cosby) – book review

S. A. Cosby seemed to explode onto the noir crime scene with his 2020 release Blacktop Wasteland, soon followed up…

You Can Go Now – movie review

Trailblazing indigenous artist and outspoken provocateur Richard Bell is arguably one of our most important artists whose work has been…