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Melbourne International Film Festival has announced a total prize pool of over $300,000 across a suite of six award categories, together with the juries and nominees for two significant competition awards: the inaugural First Nations Film Creative Award in collaboration with Kearney Group, and the return of the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award recognising an
Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony Award -winner Anthony LaPaglia takes to the Australian stage for the first time, in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.Directed by Neil Armfield (Cloudstreet, The Diary of a Madman, Exit the King), this new production comes to Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre for an exclusive, strictly limited season from September 1.Lauded
In 1967, a mystery unfolds in Ballygar on the outskirts of Dublin.Lily, played by Maggie Smith, tends a small memorial grotto dedicated to her son Declan, who drowned at sea in 1927.A young woman, Chrissie, played by Laura Linney, arrives from America for her late mother’s funeral.Eileen, a mother with six children, played by Kathy
Rough Trade starts as you would expect, given its title, with sex, the surprising sex life of slugs.Directed by Anthony Skuse, this one-woman show, a monologue delivered by its writer Katie Pollock, presents a woman trading away her past life after divorce as she downsizes to her new reality.Within the micro-economy of Facebook group Rough
The energy and passion of all the dancers (too many to name in a brief review) is clear in Burn the Floor. They are dedicated artists and each and every gesture tells a story. They move effortlessly between styles and forms of dance, captivating as they go. The small musical troupe of musicians is equally
The new Australian play Hells Gates premieres at the Geelong Arts Centre from August 10-12. Hells Gates is from the Green Room award-winning team of story makers at The Space Company, created and produced by Joel Carnegie. Drawn from verbatim sources in the wake of a mass whale rescue, Hells Gates follows the remarkable true
Chevalier(M). Opens in selected cinemas August 3.The life and trials of Joseph Bologne, aka Chevalier de Saint Georges, makes for mildly entertaining viewing, but feels like a missed opportunity to examine and explore both a complex central figure and historical material, instead settling for a comfortable skim over a story that deserves far more compelling
for the biggest day of her life. Enter Rosie, a 22year-old makeup artist from the David Jones counter, sent to help Edith get camera ready. In Rosie’s capable hands, this morning will be a breeze. So long as they both stick to the brief.Monument challenges the trivialisation of the hyper-feminine environment of beauty therapy and
Detectives from the Financial Crime Squad have charged a man after he was arrested in Braeside on Thursday (July 27) as part of an investigation into ATM skimming.Police attempted to arrest the man in Glen Waverley just before 9am on Thursday, however he fled from police in a stolen black Audi.The 45-year-old man, who is
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a two-car fatal collision which occurred on French Island.Investigators have been told two cars were travelling along Tankerton Rd about 7.50pm Saturday (July 29) when they were involved in a collision.The driver of one of the vehicles, believed to be a man in his 60s, died at the scene.The
