Arts
With a plot thinner than a starving moggie, Cats is showing its age
Our reviewers give their verdicts on the latest shows around town.
- Joyce Morgan, John Shand and Peter McCallum
Latest
Here’s the funny thing about … Chopin
Aidan Jones describes his latest show as “classical piano presented with jokes by a bald dickhead” – and it’s a formula that works.
- Daniel Herborn
Star of ABC hit The Newsreader mines real-life family drama for new project
Michelle Lim Davidson had planned to write about K-pop but a trip to South Korea changed everything.
- Nicole Elphick
The unlikely musical that conquered the world
Initial scepticism and a spectacularly awful film version have done little to slow the success of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats.
- Lenny Ann Low
This gift of a role is explosive, provocative and laugh-out-loud funny
Our reviewers give their verdicts on all the latest shows around town.
- John Shand, Rod Yates, Peter McCallum and Harriet Cunningham
- Exclusive
- For subscribers
Calls for spending audit as Powerhouse Museum discloses true costs of private VIP dinner
The Powerhouse Museum told state parliament that a VIP dinner cost $11,000. Invoices show the total was far higher.
- Linda Morris
Amid conflict at home, Iranian director wins top prize at Sydney Film Festival
Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident has been awarded the $60,000 prize in a competition for “audacious, courageous and cutting-edge” films.
- Garry Maddox
- ★★★★
- Review
Superannuated Supergrass can still put on a fine show
Our critics check out the latest performances around town.
- John Shand, James Jennings, Shamim Razavi, George Palathingal and Bernard Zuel
From the inner west to the world, Sydney’s buzziest band is going places
With their debut album And Go Nowhere, Egoism are going somewhere fast.
- Jules LeFevre
At more than five metres tall, new ‘superhero’ will rise above Circular Quay
Multimillion-dollar plans have been unveiled for a towering half-woman, half-whale sculpture to be installed at Circular Quay to speak to “female power in a white man’s world”.
- Linda Morris
Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/topic/sydney-arts-62i