
Penny King is a well-known Perth singer with a deservedly fine reputation. She is possessed of a lovely voice, wonderful vocal clarity and impeccable phrasing.

Cole Porter's Anything Goes has re-surfaced in an over-the-top new production. The story may still be set in the olden post-depression, fun-filled 1930s, but with outlandish humour ripe for a contemporary audience.

Watching this play last night at the Bondi Pavilion I felt an overwhelming dissonance between the quality of the production and the writing itself. Neighbourhood Watch is a text the themes of which exceed its details. Good in general and bad in particular.

Right from the opening beats when this story about an all-girl group preparing to perform at the grand Apollo Theatre begins, the audience knows that they are in for a musical treat with Dreamgirls.

The Richard Bona Quintet's show was a fizz of showmanship, playing to a hugely responsive audience who stood for an ovation at the end of the set, leadiong into an encore and an audience boogie.

Masters of the musical short story, the New York based The Bad Plus offer a surprising night of rock-inspired jazz twinned with classical piano on a date with Ragnarok.

Bendigo has dedicated this Autumn to Ned Kelly; from the Imagining Ned exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery to NED – A New Australian Musical at the Ulumbarra Theatre, formerly the Sandhurst Gaol, the perfect place where to premiere a show about Australia’s “favourite” outlaw.