Reviews

Exhibition Review: Isolate Make and Design Isolate, ADC
Making art in the pandemic directly affects the work itself. This exhibition is both history and direct reflection of lived…

Book Review: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
A sci-fi epic of technologies and cultures clashing across the stars.

Book Review: How local art made Australia's national capital
Anni Doyle Wawrzynczak offers a deep dive into Canberrra's local visual arts landscape, tracking its jostle against big muscle national…

Theatre Review: Disney’s Frozen, Capitol Theatre
This production transcends any age barrier to bring the purest of theatrical magic to the Capitol Theatre in a glacier…

Theatre Review: PIPPIN, Sydney Lyric Theatre
PIPPIN is undeniably spectacular with high-octane choreography and staging, but this 70s revival production has thin moments.

Book Review: Redfern: Aboriginal activism in the 1970s by Johanna Perheentupa
A history of the establishment of some key pioneering Aboriginal community groups and organisations in Redfern, Sydney, paving the way…

Theatre Review: Oklahoma!, Heath Ledger Theatre
Come along and slap your thighs and stamp your feet to a musical that will never die!

Music Review: Charpentier's Messe de minuit, Pinchgut Opera
The Christmas story becomes a salve, a symbol of warm hope after a year of trauma.

Theatre Review: Ripcord, State Theatre Company of SA
An impressive battle of wills for a bed with a view.

Book Review: The Question of Love by Hugh Mackay
Hugh Mackay is that rare thing: a writer who also shows us how we see ourselves as a nation.