Hir review: The play that will have you longing for a post-gender future
The white heterosexual male is not in Kansas anymore.
The white heterosexual male is not in Kansas anymore.
Romantic favourites mixed with contemporary sounds including a piece commissioned especially for the occasion.
MUSIC ST JEROME'S LANEWAY FESTIVAL Footscray Community Arts Centre February 3
On June 24, 1973, an arson attack at the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans' French Quarter, killed 32 people who were drinking there that night. Until the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, this was the deadliest known attack on a gay club in US history. The chief suspect, Roger Dale Nunez, who had been ejected from the bar earlier that day, committed suicide in 1974.
The white heterosexual male is not in Kansas anymore.
Jeremy Irons can relate to the role of James Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece.
Not so many years ago Michael Clark was the "bad boy" of mainstream dance, subverting his classical training – Britain's Royal Ballet School no less – into outrageous and provocative entertainment, often with the use of startling props.
Michael Clark shocked the dance world of the 80s with his outrageous highly sexualised punk-inspired productions. He took heroin for inspiration, made Leigh Bowery's mum cry with mortification and encouraged his own mum appear topless on stage. But as Sydney is about to see, at 55, he is aiming for a different meaning in his work.
Cella is Latin for cell, and this engrossing work has been choreographed by its performers, Narelle Benjamin and Paul White, to reflect the "complex structures of our biological system".
"In the '70s, when people were so vilified, there was a real defiance, and people celebrated their life and their sexuality, but it all happened inside these closed bars."
Some of our cultural attitudes may have changed but the heart of this Australian classic still beats strong.
Melbourne has had a bit of a dearth of family-friendly musicals lately.Â
More than 15,000 people revelled in Puccini's classic opera on a perfect summer's night, and stealing the show in her Australian debut was soprano Elena Perroni, in the lead role of Mimi.
In the latest jolt to the classical musical world, New York's Metropolitan Opera has fired the veteran British stage director John Copley after receiving a complaint about what the company described as "inappropriate behaviour in the rehearsal room".
The first time Denise Scott remembers laying eyes on fellow comedian Judith Lucy was less meet cute, more meat cute.
Bill Cosby joked about his blindness, scatted along with a jazz band, and even played the drums Monday in his first public performance since abuse allegations from dozens of women put his career on hold two years ago.
Mo'Nique has called on her fans to boycott Netflix, accusing the streaming service of "colour bias" and "gender bias" in the wake of a pay feud.
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