
Michael Apted has been revisiting a bunch of kids every seven years since he started 7 UP in 1964. The 7 UP series seems an obvious inspiration for Australian playwright Nick Enright to pen A Man With Five Children a couple of decades later.

Ethiopian composer and musician, Mulatu Astatke, the father of ‘Ethio-Jazz’ is a man who invented his own genre of music, combining traditional melodies and rhythms with American Jazz, Latin and funk influences.

Over recent years Australian audiences have been treated to an annual parade of Broadway Divas in concert, from the amazing Idina Menzel to the sublime Audra McDonald. The latest in the line is the delectable Megan Hilty.

When the extraordinary pianist Lang Lang wiped his sweaty face during Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto, I wondered if he should have mopped the piano’s brow too.

Set in an absurd, hallucinatory world contained within a space surrounded by dangling chains, three men emerge from the shadows covered in white paint, each wearing different colored braces over white button-downs and black trousers.

Playwright Sarah Kane has left behind a small and notoriously difficult repertoire of works, but WAYTCo haven’t let that stop them from producing her challenging, fragmented Crave.

Jungr overflows with intensity, she’s a fireball, a force to be reckoned with and with good reason, since she’s unafraid to sing with such heart-jangling and white-hot emotion she appears at times to be hanging by a thread on the brink of madness.