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Bridget Cormack worked on The Australian’s arts desk from 2010 to 2013, before spending a year in the Brisbane bureau as Queensland arts correspondent. She then worked at the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and as a freelance arts journalist before returning to The Australian as Deputy Editor of Review in 2019.

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Not so still lifeReview

Robert Wilson performing John Cage's Lecture on Nothing. Picture: Lucie Jansch.

Celebrity portraiture — but not as you know it

Director Robert Wilson’s adventures in the theatre are legendary, but it’s his high-definition ‘moving portraits’ of big-name celebrities that are really garnering attention | WATCH

Bridget Cormack

spotlightReview

Daniil Simkin as the Harlequin in Alexei Ratmansky’s Harlequinade. Photo: Doug Gifford.

‘At some point I wanted to be a dentist’

Russian-born Daniil Simkin, 34, is renowned for his staggering “airtime” but he didn’t always want to be a professional ballet dancer.

Bridget Cormack

travelWeekend Australian Magazine

EMBARGO FOR TWAM 18 JUNE 2022. FEE MAY APPLY. Craig Spilsbury. Quality control during Whisky maturation is paramount and drawing cask strength straight from the barrel is the only true way to taste how the single malt is progressing. Ironhouse Tasmania. Source: Tourism Australia

A moveable feast for the senses

Brilliant food, amazing landscapes, and of course the wine… Tasmania’s East Coast Wine Trail is a journey for the senses.

Bridget Cormack

Arts

Illustration for Look at Moi. Source: Supplied

It’s ‘look at moi’ as local drama has a moment

Streaming television services are investing heavily in Australian stories, and audiences can’t get enough.

Bridget Cormack

JK RowlingReview

HPATCC Reimagined - Harry and Albus - Photo credit Michelle Grace Hunder

Fresh wave of the wand

Hit play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is getting a magical reboot. Review travels to Broadway to see the new cut bound for Melbourne.

Bridget Cormack

televisionReview

Amanda Seyfried is Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout

Envy and schadenfreude a winning formula

Hollywood’s latest appraisal of the tech industry is a crop of exciting new TV offerings focussing on greed and comeuppance ripped straight from the headlines.

John Jurgensen

filmReview

Sex toy weapons litter this multiverse: travellers beware

Everything Everywhere All at Once is the kind of statement movie indie filmmakers use as a ticket into making big franchise projects under the banner of Marvel or Star Wars.

John Jurgensen

spotlightReview

08/02/2022: Poet and academic Sarah Holland-Batt is collaborating with Queensland Opera on a concert called The Sopranos about the representation of women in opera, near her home in Hamilton, Brisbane. Sarah also has a new book of poems coming out, called The Jaguar. Pic Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

The one poem we need to read right now

Poet Sarah Holland-Batt prescribes one poem as ‘medicine’ for these turbulent times.

Bridget Cormack

REVIEWReview

Eliza Reilly by Kate Williams Photography

How to become a ‘badass’ woman

When Eliza Reilly, 30, turned her webseries Sheilas in to a book she was forced to confront her inner ‘good girl’.

Bridget Cormack

spotlightReview

‘Get help. Professional help’

Recognised for a sickening turn in a public health ad, theatre-maker and mum of triplets Emma Beech, 41, reveals how she deals with the notoriety — and her best parenting hack.

Bridget Cormack

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