Roger Waters still energised and finding new targets for his rage
It's difficult to imagine a harder-working performer than Roger Waters.
It's difficult to imagine a harder-working performer than Roger Waters.
He may not be a household name like Kendrick Lamar but Anderson Paak has well and truly cemented his fan base down under.
The white heterosexual male is not in Kansas anymore.
Colin Lane and Frank Woodley are back after a long hiatus with a show about aviation, more or less.
Religion has to be humanity's single most catastrophic invention. With its decrees and wars measured in lives lost, children orphaned, women raped, bodies tortured and hearts wracked with guilt and malice, it makes greed, weapons manufacturing and even nuclear bombs look as benign as soup spoons.
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.
Dancing to David Bowie's Heroes and The Jean Genie, the 70 dancers with Parkinson's disease let themselves go for an hour of joy and movement.
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.
About 15 minutes after the curtain rises on Priscilla: Queen of the Desert rises, a small phenomenon takes place.
"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.
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".
Colin Lane and Frank Woodley are back after a long hiatus with a show about aviation, more or less.
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.
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