Left of Centre
Born without a right hand, British pianist Nicholas McCarthy is a champion of left-hand-alone repertoire with a busy international career.
Elissa Blake is a Sydney-based journalist and editor. She learned the trade at The Age, edited Australian Rolling Stone magazine, and has written for mastheads including The Sydney Morning Herald, Harper’s Bazaar and Guardian Australia. She currently works at Sydney University.
Born without a right hand, British pianist Nicholas McCarthy is a champion of left-hand-alone repertoire with a busy international career.
Screenwriter Peter Duncan, director Kriv Stenders and actor Richard Roxburgh talk about making the new Australian movie The Correspondent.
A new Sydney Festival play looks at the 1954 case of Sydney model Shirley Beiger, found not guilty after shooting her boyfriend in the face.
Christine Anu is about to appear in her first musical since 2016, playing Hermes in the Australian premiere of Hadestown. She tells Elissa Blake why it feels like the right musical at the right time.
Presented by Perth Festival, Canada’s Why Not Theatre bring the Sanskrit epic to a new generation of theatregoers.
We talk to Brisbane's Dead Puppet Society about Peter and the Starcatcher, the Broadway smash hit about the boy who became Peter Pan.
A new Queensland Theatre production of Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 stage thriller shows us where this now-familiar term 'gaslight' originated.
Black, genderqueer and fiercely talented, Nellie Small was a trailblazing star in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Today, she’s barely remembered.
Two of the creative forces behind Brisbane Festival's Salamander discuss transforming an empty warehouse into an eerie vision of the future.
Actor Philip Quast prepares to venture into the frozen landscapes of Patricia Cornelius's wintry drama for Sydney Theatre Company.
The Melbourne-based writer Patricia Cornelius, who recently turned 70, discusses her much-admired career and how 2023 is going to be a good year.
Mythology, sexuality and even gravity are up for re-examination in Holding Achilles, a production which has taken its makers in new and demanding directions.
Richard E. Grant’s wife died in 2021. His memoir, A Pocketful of Happiness, which traces their four decades together, was published in September. Now he is bringing the memoir to the stage.