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Jay Rayner's controversial food commandment
"Blueberries will not prevent cancer, they'll just make your breakfast taste better."
"Blueberries will not prevent cancer, they'll just make your breakfast taste better."
"As a playwright I make a pretty decent novelist," says Tim Winton. "I don't have any illusions about that."
Sue Jones' brilliant performance as a larger-than-life demon grandma Liraz Her is a masterful comic creation that lifts the show as she schemes and scoots around the stage.
"As a playwright I make a pretty decent novelist," says Tim Winton. "I don't have any illusions about that."
Sue Jones' brilliant performance as a larger-than-life demon grandma Liraz Her is a masterful comic creation that lifts the show as she schemes and scoots around the stage.
A Queensland trial of the HIV prevention drug PrEP may sound like odd fodder for a cabaret and burlesque show about queer sex, but not for Regan Lynch.
Sydney Dance Company's double bill features some terrific dancing across both works.
With a little help from Airbnb, Phillip Adams' BalletLab is bucking the trend.
The title of Limitless Dance Company's second season, SE7EN, is a reference to the 'sinful entities inside all of us'.
When Alex Harding's boy-meets-boy musical romance Only Heaven Knows premiered at the Stables Theatre in Kings Cross in May 1988, Sydney's gay community was in the grip of the AIDS crisis. Now it is being revived in a new age of conservatism.
Anna O'Byrne sings with enchanting beauty, and eventually crisp diction, as Eliza Doolittle, while Robyn Nevin is simply sublime as Henry Higgins' mother.
It's the sort of compliment any actress would love to hear, especially from Julie Andrews.
Shining performances and some interesting artistic choices make this a splendid double bill from Opera Australia. ★★★★½
The tiny 115-seat Hayes Theatre is getting a big reputation for staging musicals with top talent. Coming soon to the theatre: opera diva Emma Matthews, and musical theatre stars David Campbell and Toby Francis.
Theatre veteran John Bell is enjoying the challenge of directing Opera Australia's Cuban-inspired production of Carmen.
US President Donald Trump wasn't there to roast in person at the White House correspondents' dinner, but that didn't stop the evening's entertainer, Hasan Minhaj.
What could be more provocative than prancing around naked on stage? Talking back to critics.
Soon to turn 50, Frank Woodley rightly considers himself a seasoned veteran of Australian comedy. But the anxiety never goes away.
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