See & Do
His grandmother’s song was silenced, but art helped Reko Rennie find his voice
His grandmother’s legacy lies at the heart of many of Kamilaroi artist Reko Rennie’s works, which blend activism with exploration of identity and culture.
- by Elizabeth Flux
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Michael Keaton returns to his Mr Mom roots in this old-fashioned slice of life
In Goodrich, he plays a gallery owner who must look after his nine-year-old twins when their mother leaves to go to rehab.
- by Jake Wilson
You don’t often see a performer of this calibre slumming it down an alleyway
Mike McLeish’s solo show, Pensive Like a Fox, is a charming and offbeat cabaret filled with off-the-wall tangents and genuine poignancy.
- by Cameron Woodhead, Tony Way, Kosa Monteith and Jessica Nicholas
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Perfectly cast, Wicked is made bigger and better on screen
Director Jon M. Chu has taken a successfully radical approach to the beloved Broadway musical, smoothing out the kinks in the narrative.
- by Sandra Hall
How we turned an ‘unadaptable’ story into a blockbuster film
After a conversation with my friend more than 20 years ago, The Return is finally in cinemas.
- by John Collee
Think you know John and Yoko? Not like this guy
Decades after the bizarre friendship began, unassuming radio DJ Elliott Mintz still doesn’t know why one of the world’s most famous couples chose him as their confidante.
- by Michael Dwyer
Feted in France, the Australian artist you’ve never heard of. Until now
The Australian cubist potter, Anne Dangar, died in relative obscurity, but a new exhibition aims to resurrect her much-neglected reputation.
- by Linda Morris
This biting, bonkers metafictional caper is a wild ride
Jimmy O Yang and Ronny Chieng star in this sharp adaptation of Charles Wu’s novel
- by Kylie Northover
Who are we? Where did we come from? Settle in for a night like no other
Archeologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts admits that explaining life on Earth in one evening is “a bit ambitious”.
- by Kylie Northover
Loose, ghostly threads weave together in Rodney Hall’s new novel
The author’s 14th novel is perhaps his most ambitious yet.
- by Reuben Mackey
A space odyssey, evolutionary secrets, and other new books
Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases.
- by Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp
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