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Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story – movie review

Mad About the Boy has been released to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Noel Coward’s death. This well-researched, revealing…

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – movie review

More monkey business. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is another reboot … reset … reconfiguration of the 1968…

World Problems (MTC) – theatre review

Memories – personal, intimate, global … over time and space … on Earth and beyond. A monologue that is vivid and…

HE (Theatre Works’ Explosives Factory – theatre review

The ocean, the family, the lover – 20 years on a man returns to his childhood home and revives memories…

James (Percival Everett) – book review

Percival Everett has rarely held back. His 2011 novel Erasure, now the film American Fiction, explored the treatment of Black…

The Norman Mailer Anecdote (Big Scary Animal) – theatre review

The world premiere of The Norman Mailer Anecdote by Big Scary Animal was an exciting night of firsts. It was…

Unfrosted (Netflix) – movie review

You remember that guy... You know, from that show... Oh, you mean Kramer? No, no, the other one... George? No…

The Woman in Black (QPAC and touring) – theatre review

Two actors, some props, lighting... sounds rudimentary - but the result in The Woman in Black is astounding. This storied…

Way (fortyfivedownstairs) – theatre review

A searing look at female homelessness in Australia over the age of 55, Way, written and performed by Sally McKenzie,…

The Grinning Man (Alex Theatre) – musical theatre review

The bawdy meets the bizarre in the Australian premiere of the tragicomic musical The Grinning Man, which is based on…