
Everybody raves about the famously self-styled, self-taught nuclear-fission/fusion that is Irish/French singer Camille O’Sullivan. She got a standing ovation the other night at the Fairfax.

Arguably one of the greatest musicals of all time, Les Miserables is an ageless masterpiece that has endured and thrilled audiences for three decades.

Right from the get-go, Fish in the Sea was out to take the piss. Aptly named Bastard Theatre created this work for The Fringe Festival and it was such a good fit.

After the reign of the blockbuster movie back in 2015, when movies were made purely for box office sales and devoid of any true meaning, the film industry has reverted back to making “ART”.

Combining Chekov’s wonderful, comic monologue On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco with music from Bach, Berio and Tchaikovsky makes for a short and charming salon piece from the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.

In the early 90s (was it that long ago?) an unknown turned his student play into a low-budget film that took Australia and most of the world by storm. Now some 20 years later, the not-so-unknown Baz Luhrmann has brought that same story full circle and back to the stage.