Review: Baggage – Tales From a Fully Packed Life (Alan Cumming)
Alan Cumming shares his lighter side in honest and unsentimental memoirs part two.
Diana Simmonds is an author, editor and theatre critic. She is also a regular book reviewer for Limelight. Her arts website Stage Noise is Sydney’s longest established. She has written for Fairfax, News Ltd and Kerry Packer, and at 15 was The Mombasa Times’ yachting correspondent.
Alan Cumming shares his lighter side in honest and unsentimental memoirs part two.
Australia’s arch storyteller gets to tell his own story at last.
Director Suzanne Chaundy says her approach to Die Walküre is to tell the story as clearly as possible, exploring the themes without adding tonnes of obvious contemporary relevance.
Billed as a film about a play about a poem, Sport for Jove's Venus & Adonis is a luscious, visual feast and a remarkable achievement.
Karampini offers a modern conductor’s take on an old, old tale.
An Aussie icon turns out to have more sides than you might imagine.
Celebrating 20 years of The Wharf Revue.
John Bell investigates the quality of leadership, taking Shakespeare as his guide.
The populist impresario’s reminiscences are entirely unputdownable.
An Aussie singing legend gets the biography she so thoroughly deserves.
Give your nose wrinkling disdain at the musical taste of others a rest, says Diana Simmonds.
A fascinating visual slice of fin de siècle Australian theatrical life.
Helen Marquand's labour of love reveals the life and times of an émigré pianist.