
There is a new Lord of the Dance and although his dancing might match the great Flatley it is hard to tell as you never got the chance to immerse yourself in his fabulous foot work.

Sigmund Freud believed that “the aim of all life is death...” he called this theory the death instinct or Mortido.

Here’s what you get at a Laura Marling concert: storytelling, through long songs, some almost 15 minutes in length, with complex lyrics, and tunes that shift in tone and tempo.

Has it really been 40 years since the wild-looking woman out-cooled dudes like the Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, extending the bridge they had started building between rock and punk?

As soon as Tina Benko seizes the microphone to announce, ‘My name is Desdemona,’ she has us by the throat.

Kit Brookman’s new play, A Rabbit for Kim Jong-Il, appears to be a charming, absurdist work about the covert appropriation of a colony of gigantic German rabbits by a North Korean emissary. But it is actually based on a bizarre, but true story.

Opera Van Diemensland's recent production of Puccini's masterpiece Tosca at the Independent Theatre under the direction of Martin Buckingham was a courageous and largely successful offering of a great work.