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Details: 15 June 2009

Anger inducing. Debate demanding. Cud to chew.

Details: 15 June 2009

Great Romantics | Australian Chamber Orchestra

While the image of Brahms as a turbulent and highly sensitive ‘Great Romantic’ is easily understood, Arnold Schoenberg is perhaps not the first composer to come to mind when we think of Romanticism in music.

Details: 14 June 2009

The BBC sitcom series of many years ago, Richard Curtis & Ben Elton's Blackadder, is a natural for the stage, with its larger-than-life characters (caricatures, really; and then some) and Chaucerian ribaldry.

Details: 14 June 2009

I defy anyone not to enjoy a classical concert where the orchestra plays action movie soundtracks and the conductor wears superhero costumes.

Details: 14 June 2009

While Miriam and the Monkfish could easily be overlooked as a pastiche of celebrity chef culture it’s the satire in the writing, along with Kelly’s energetic performance, that carries the show beyond this.

Details: 13 June 2009

To Kill a Mockingbird | Epicentre Theatre Company

Director, Dino Dimitriadis, for Epicentre Theatre Company, has done a particularly fine job, in taking Christopher Sergel's adaptation of Lee's perennial novel to the stage

Details: 13 June 2009

For all its coolness, its cleverness, Richard Jordan's 25 Down fails to really connect on the level the writer wants.

Details: 11 June 2009

The Falling Room and the Flying Room | Terrapin Puppet Theatre

Samuel Paxton is your typical eight-year-old: energetic, imaginative and full of crazy schemes; “Mum says we can smash all the windows on one side of the house!” he boldly fibs at one point.

My Name is Rachel Corrie

Great Romantics | Australian Chamber Orchestra

Blackadder | NTT Productions

Superheroes at the Symphony | MSO Pops

Miriam and the Monkfish

To Kill a Mockingbird | Epicentre Theatre Company

25 Down | Queensland Theatre Company

The Falling Room and the Flying Room | Terrapin Puppet Theatre