True crime and true crime podcasts are having a moment, not only in the real world but also in fiction.…

We’re among African Americans in a working-class suburb in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1950s. Although affable when it suits him, Troy…

The word ‘Rhinestone’ immediately makes me think of ‘Cowboy’. So, when I saw the title of the current play at…

What a hoot! Featured performer Jay James-Moody, the artistic director of Squabbalogic Independent Music Theatre, has adapted (to the present day)…

Hirokazu Kore-eda is one of Japan’s greatest living filmmakers. You could mount a case he’s the greatest living Japanese filmmaker…

Opera Australia’s Handa Opera Madama Butterfly sears with emotion. It is a splendid and spectacular offering, with surprises, against the backdrop…

Intelligent couple Stevie (Claudia Karvan) and Martin Gray (Nathan Page) have been happily married for 22 years. They have a 17-year-old…

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The Australian western is having a bit of a renaissance and is, at the same time being reinvented. The modern…

Based on a memoir by the late Timothy Conigrave, playwright Tommy Murphy has given us an up close and personal…