Arts
Ballet review: Swan Lake ★★★½
STEPHEN Baynes created this “traditional” Swan Lake in 2012, to sit alongside Graeme Murphy’s modern Swan Lake in The Australian Ballet’s repertoire.
White Night artist holds solo show
JOSH Muir was one of the headliners at White Night Melbourne. Now the artworks he projected onto the National Gallery of Victoria are part of his solo show.
Noir in the now
PLAYWRIGHT Tom Holloway was watching a favourite film when he began to imagine it unfolding on stage. Now crime thriller Double Indemnity is on at the Melbourne Theatre Company.
Theatre review: Double Indemnity ★★★★
IN this entertaining and atmospheric production, Sam Strong’s direction is assured, Tom Holloway’s script is intelligent, the acting accomplished and the design, costume and lighting are stylish.
How to follow the jazz during major fest
IT’S going to be trickling out of doorways, gusting through lanes and a lifting a few roofs. The Melbourne International Jazz Festival is here and this is how to find the best of it.
Meet the new cast of Fawlty Towers
THESE are the actors who will be filling big shoes in the Fawlty Towers stage show, coming to Melbourne in September.
Theatre review: Resident Alien ★★★½
WHEN asked what his longevity could be attributed to, the famously camp Quentin Crisp replied glibly, “bad luck”.
Warlow’s wow factor in America
ANTHONY Warlow’s star quality continues to be recognised in the US, with hopes he will be back on the Australian stage next year.
Dance review: Sydney Dance Company’s CounterMove ★★★★
COUNTERMOVE is full-bodied dance, swinging across light and shade, humour and gravitas. A satisfying and well-produced combination of two very different offerings.
Dance review: Chunky Move’s Lucid ★★★½
MARRYING dance and projection has been a preoccupation with contemporary dance for several decades. From clunky origins, it’s come a long and sophisticated way.
MoMA masterpieces coming to Melbourne
AN exhibition from New York’s famous Museum of Modern Art is coming to Melbourne in a world exclusive at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Assange to ‘appear’ in Bendigo
Wikileaks founder and fugitive Julian Assange will headline the Bendigo Writers Festival in August
Kids’ transgender book goes global
A Melbourne author’s picture book about gender diversity has garnered a global audience
Bayside novel sails towards award
Melbourne and Sydney rivalry will be put to the test at this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award, with four Melburnians competing for the award against one Sydneysider
Goodfella’s silver screen gems on show
BALL gowns worn by Cate Blanchett and Gwen Stefani in The Aviator are two of the costumes on show at a major exhibition opening in Melbourne tomorrow. FIRST PICTURES
Cult director put under eagle eye
THE handpainted contact lens worn by Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York is the smallest object in the blockbuster Scorsese exhibition opening at ACMI tomorrow.
Anger at importing actors for Oz shows
CONCERNS are mounting in the arts industry that too many leading roles in stage shows are being given to imported actors.
Rabe breaks through the glass
Theatre review: Pamela Rabe plays the matriarch in The Glass Menagerie with a mix of raw desperation and southern artifice that’s so good it startles.
A crash course in Scorsese
AN exhilarating exhibition celebrating one of the world’s greatest directors opens in Melbourne this week.
The ultimate ranking of Scorsese’s hit films
THINK you know Martin Scorsese? Here’s our definitive guide to the Hollywood director’s best — and worst — work.
Sounds are still sublime
RODGERS and Hammerstein are unbeatable in the musical theatre stakes and The Sound of Music includes some of their most memorable tunes.
Opera review: Luisa Miller ★★★★★
IN its 60th anniversary year, Opera Australia has finally given Verdi’s gripping 1849 production Luisa Miller its rightful place on our stage.
Pies pray for winning habit
AFTER a wobbly start to the footy season, Collingwood fans may have been saved by some divine intervention from The Sound of Music nuns.
Musical review: Heathers ★★★
TEEN musical Heathers deals with bullying, murder, suicide, shootings and bombings in a high school so it is vital to strike the right balance between grotesquerie, comedy and morality.
Theatre review: Straight White Men ★★★½
STRAIGHT White Men is less a scathing satire about white man’s privileged position in the modern world and more a family drama about a widowed father and his three ageing sons.
Singin’ in the Rain a visual feast
REVIEW: Aficionados of the cinematic version should love the effervescent and inventively re-imagined stage production of Singin’ In The Rain at Her Majesty’s Theatre.
The stage is music to Amy’s ears
AMY Lehpamer turned her back on the chance of a promising violin career to pursue her passion. And, in The Sound of Music, she’s hitting all the right notes.
Gilbo on road back after horror run
BELOVED comedian Russell Gilbert is piecing his life back together “like a jigsaw puzzle” after suffering a devastating series of personal and medical blows.
Watch a theatre show grow in one day
THEATRE doesn’t just happen. Months, even years, can go by as a show grows into a full-blown production. Watch them grow in a day. PIC SPECIAL
