THIS is an American adaptation of a best-selling novel based on the life of its Fleet Street columnist author Allison Pearson. A better title for it would be “I Don’t Know Why They Made It”….
THIS family comedy confected by siblings Jesse and Evgania Peretz works hard to make us laugh at gags that might go down poorly with short-fused film-goers expecting wit or subtlety. But what the heck? Tickled endorphins…
LET’S get this straight – “Cordelia” is not a reworking of “King Lear”. It is rather, as Polish director Jerzy Grotowski used to say, a case of using a classic as the “springboard” for the…
CABARET entertainers get a chance to present a variety show and interact with and engage the audience with a liberal sprinkling of spontaneity. The intimate surrounds and rather nice setting in Teatro Vivaldi lends itself…
WHEN Salman Rushdie wrote about “midnight’s children”, he was thinking about the Indian and Pakistani children born in India at midnight on August 15, 1947, when it was divided into two countries. Playwright Tessa Bremner…
LATE yesterday, staff at the ANU School of Music received a letter from head of school Prof Adrian Walter via an email from the general manager’s office, saying that he was no longer on leave….
ANU Music staff have greeted stories of a “backdown” over staff cuts by the vice chancellor, Ian Young, with disappointment and scepticism. A senior faculty member who preferred not to be named said staff were…
CANBERRA’S music community will be saddened to hear of the death in Denmark of pianist and former director of the Canberra School of Music, John Winther. Winther was born on August 20, 1933 in Copenhagen,…
IT WAS undoubtedly the noisiest, and the coolest, rally in town as staff, students and members of the public gathered at the ANU’s Union Court today to protest against cuts and changes at the School…
