
Accompanied by the Australian Chamber Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House, Miss Upshaw thrilled us with her beauty of tone, immaculate musicality and appealing stage presence.

“Don’t ever tell me again you can’t write,” said Joan Didion’s husband to her on her birthday; the last birthday, in fact, that they would ever spend together.


Saturday was a full house at the Canberra Theatre as Canberrans took leave from the heated throngs of the nearby multicultural food fest to sit back and be led into some laughs.


Hitting its mark in the 2009 Midsumma Festival, Forbidden Broadway is one musical revue with a twist.