Rosemary Neill

Rosemary NeillSenior Writer, Review

Rosemary Neill is a senior writer with The Weekend Australian’s Review. She has been a feature writer, oped columnist and Inquirer editor for The Australian and has won a Walkley Award for feature writing. She was a dual finalist in the 2018 Walkley Awards and a finalist in the mid-year 2019 Walkleys. Her book, White Out, was shortlisted in the NSW and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards.

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ARCHIBALD PRIZEArts

DAILY TELEGRAPH - 7.6.24MUST CHECK WITH PIC EDITOR BEOFRE USE - 2024 Archibald Prize winner Laura Jones pictured with her portrait at the NSW Art Gallery. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Archibald ‘incredible thrill’ follows missed phone call

Sydney artist Laura Jones admits a ‘glitch’ delayed the news that she’d won the nation’s most celebrated award with her ‘bold but tender’ painting of Tim Winton.

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Archibald 2024Visual Arts

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MAY 30, 2024: Matt Adnate is awarded the Archibald Packing Room Prize for his portrait of Baker Boy at The Art Gallery of NSW on Thursday. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Nikki Short

Baker Boy portrait takes Packing Room prize

The Art Gallery of NSW’s chief packers have had their say in the 33rd iteration of the Archibald’s favourite side prize, the curtain-raiser to the nation’s most popular portrait award.

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Western Sydney WanderersNation

Stills from the SBS documentary, Came From Nowhere, about the Western Sydney Wanderers and fan behaviour that divides opinion. Picture: Eric Berry

Soccer doco lifts the lid on racism, riots and raw emotion

A provocative documentary about A-Leagues football club Western Sydney Wanderers claims criticism of the team’s fans is ‘pearl-clutching’ and ‘a little bit racist’.

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OFFENCE TAKENReview

"usher, opens red theater curtiain revealing stage lighting...some visible noise in background."

Theatre for snowflakes: the creep of trigger warnings

Trigger warnings are being slapped on everything from dead moths to shirtless men, amid fears audience members could take offence. Eminent theatre figures have had enough.

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BOURKE INQUIRYNation

Copy pic of Cindy Smith (left) and Mona-Lisa Smith (cousins) who tragically died 30 years ago on The Mitchell Highway just outside of Bourke when a car rolled killing her and her cousin Mona-Lisa Smith and the driver Alexander Grant got off despite having drunk 30 beers and without justice being served. Picture: Adam Taylor

Justice for dead girls a long, hard road

More than 36 years after two Indigenous girls’ bodies were found in NSW’s outback, state coroner Teresa O’Sullivan will deliver her findings into the teenagers’ horrific deaths.

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‘breathtaking’Review

Anthony Hopkins in “Freud’s Last Session.”Credit...Sabrina Lantos/Sony Pictures Classics

Some would have loved a ‘bloodbath’

Matt Brown says directing screen legend Anthony Hopkins in a bio-pic about Sigmund Freud was among the ‘greatest’ experiences of his working life.

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COVER STORYReview

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 13: Juliette Binoche is photographed for the LA Times at The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills on November 13, 2023 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Justin Bettman/Contour RA by Getty Images)

‘This film is going to be a nightmare’

Juliette Binoche had doubts after her ex-boyfriend was cast as her lover in a new period romance. The French screen legend was proven right when a fight broke out in rehearsals.

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REVIEWReview

Australian soprano Jessica Pratt, Pratt (c) MarcoBorrelli 2

The remarkably modest Australian soprano conquering the world

Ahead of her Brisbane ‘homecoming’, superstar Jessica Pratt talks performance anxiety, homelessness, an unhinged bride – and living in Dame Joan’s shadow.

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ArtsNation

STC blow as artistic director readies to bow out

Kip Williams, Sydney Theatre Company artistic director, plans to step down as company reels from deficit crisis.

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ExclusiveNation

8/3/24: Playwright David Williamson at his apartment in Sydney who has come back out of retirement. David has retired twice but is back writing for the theatre, with three new plays being produced this year. His latest work, The Great Divide, is about property development and economic inequality in contemporary Australia, and its season has already been extended at Sydney's Ensemble Theatre. John Feder/The Australian.

With three new plays, ‘retired’ Williamson still has much to say

David Williamson has retired – twice – but is back with a new play that tackles greed and the property crisis.

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