Tag: Stage and screen

A contemporary theatre production currently playing at the Ovalhouse explores race relations and multiculturalism in Australia, from Captain Cook’s historic first encounter with indigenous people, through to National Sorry Day.

REVIEW | Chimerica at Almeida Theatre is a captivating rollercoaster for the heart and mind, a play which explores the changing fortunes of two countries through the lens of a single photograph.

REVIEW | Four circus performers test the limits of human strength and fragility in Knee Deep, the debut for Australian contemporary company Casus currently playing at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.

REVIEW | Happy New at Trafalgar Studios, by Australian playwright Brendan Cowell, is full of raw emotion and an undertone of restless aggression. It is a brutal exploration of how humans operate in modern Australian society, that sucks in the audience by virtue of proximity and off the back of ...

WHAT'S ON | A BBQ with a comedy show on the side? Sounds pretty Australian to us. Check out The Invisible Dot’s BBQ previews season of Edinburgh Fringe shows, including Australian comic Claudia O’Doherty on Wednesday 12 June 2013.

Combining dance, story-telling, live music and filmscapes, Shield is a humorous, physical and delicate journey to a fragile land where identity, diversity and love are re-imagined. It is on at Ovalhouse from 11-29 June.

INTERVIEW | Ever dreamt of running away with the circus? Australian circus artist Emelia Holdaway has made this dream a reality for the stars of circus art group Airealism in their latest show, The Bleeding Hearts Circus, showing at Hoxton Hall.

Coming to the Southbank Centre this June, ‘Untrained’, a new show from Australian dance company Lucy Guerin Inc. sees two professional dancers performing alongside two men with zero dance training.

INTERVIEW | Multi-award winning Australian writer, actor and director Brendan Cowell is set to premiere his play Happy New in London’s West End. He talks to PAUL BLEAKLEY about chickens, childhood and modern media.

Circa, the highly acclaimed Australian contemporary circus company are touring the UK throughout May and June with two very distinct shows: Beyond and How Like An Angel.

New Zealand-born, Australian-based filmmaker Jane Campion has been acknowledged by her peers receiving the prestigious Carrosse d’Or in Cannes last week. Her latest work, a six-hour critically acclaimed crime miniseries 'Top of the Lake' was filmed in New Zealand and is set to be aired on UK's BBC2.

Moviegoers and literature fans have been anticipating the release of Baz Luhrmann’s big screen adaptation of The Great Gatsby, which officially opened the Cannes Film Festival last week. The movie enjoyed it's première in Australia on Wednesday night, at a star-studded event held at Sydney's Fox Studios.

REVIEW | Travels With My Aunt at the Menier Chocolate Factory is a theatrical trifecta; clever writing, brilliant directing and acting that will blow you a world away.

WILL FITZGIBBON chats with opera choreographer and director Sarah Fahie. Her work can be seen in the revival of Verdi's Falstaff, now on at Glyndebourne.

Australian director Baz Luhrmann has told media in Cannes he expected criticism over The Great Gatsby, but he’s humbled by its early success.

INTERVIEW | Australia with Simon Reeve, a three-part series scheduled to premiere on BBC2 on Sunday night, follows the author and television presenter as he attempts to challenge the pre-conceptions that British audiences have about Australia, including bikies, dangerous wildlife and the Outback.

REVIEW | Following a sell out season at the Menier Chocolate Factory, it is easy to see why Merrily We Roll Along is back by popular demand, this time playing at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

Pack your bags because The Menier Chocolate Factory is taking you on a round-the-world trip with their new production Travels With My Aunt. It stars Australian born actor Jonathan Hyde.

INTERVIEW | Fresh from performing at Australia’s famed Adelaide Fringe Festival and Melbourne’s Spiegeltent, EastEnd Cabaret bring their newfound love of Bundy and Cola back to London’s Soho Theatre with their show Notoriously Kinky.

Winner of the Critics Circle Award for Best New Musical, the revival of Merrily We Roll Along is about to re-open, this time in the West End. Damian Humbley, an Australian musical theatre performer, is staring in the highly acclaimed show.

The BBC is set to travel Down Under next year to film an eight-part television drama about the foundation of the first British penal colony in Australia at the end of the 18th century.

Ahead of her performances at the London Burlesque Festival in May, Miss Strawberry Siren, a highly acclaimed cabaret artist from Australia, is proving that when it comes to burlesque, there are no rules.

The Australian-based production of British reality television program Geordie Shore has already begun courting controversy, with police dispatched to intervene in a public disturbance at the show’s Sydney base in Coogee on the first day of filming.

For one night only this Sunday, accompanied by musical director Theo Jamieson and band, don’t miss Aussie songstress Erin Cornell light up the stage, live at the St James Studio.

REVIEW | Melbourne born opera director revitalises Tosca, a dramatic tale of love and murder in Italy on stage at the Royal Opera House. The production also features Australian tenor Hubert Frances in the role of Spoletta.

Documentary film Alias Ruby Blade offers a unique insight into the tumultuous birth of a new nation in Timor-Leste through the story of Kirsty Sword, a young Australian activist who provided valuable assistance to the resistance and ultimately fell in love with resistance leader, and first President of Timor-Leste, Xanana ...

THE EXPAT FACTOR | Liz Koops is a theatrical entrepreneur who brought sell-out shows Tap Dogs and Priscilla Queen of The Desert to the UK stage. She is managing director of Back Row Productions, winner of 2012 Australian Woman of the Year in the UK and has recently launched a ...

INTERVIEW | Submerge is a new Australian film which explores the pressures facing Gen Y. It is screening as part of the 27th BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival on Tuesday 19 March 2013.

INTERVIEW | Half-Australian actress Mariah Gale stars as a brilliant but troubled mathematician in a new production of award-winning play ‘Proof’.

The nominations for the 2013 TV Week Logie Awards — Australian TV’s night of nights — has been announced, with Channel Nine again leading the pack.

Full list of 2013 Logie Award nominations.

London is a theatre hub but it’s the emerging talent at the fringe who are really doing it for the love of the job.

The Australian invasion of Hollywood has never been more evident than in Stoker, a Hitchcock style thriller now showing in UK theatres.

Crash, bang, wallop! It’s The Claudia O’Doherty Experience! An elaborate season of ‘nofeather-boas-allowed’ Friday night cabaret shows, presented by Australia’s prodigal daughter Claudia O’Doherty.

REVIEW | The true story of a ragbag cast of convicts putting on a play in Our Country’s Good offers a unique perspective on a familiar slice of Australian history.

REVIEW | The revival of The Vortex at Rose Theatre Kingston captures Noël Coward’s depiction of a unconventional and intoxicating relationship between mother and son with energy and enthusiasm.

INTERVIEW | Aussie actress Yvonne Strahovski is set to star in hit US show Dexter. She talks to PAUL BLEAKLEY about forming an unusual bond with a serial killer.

Tim Minchin has confirmed the March dates for the UK tour of Jesus Christ Superstar will be postponed to October.

INTERVIEW | Ahead of her role as Florence in Noël Coward’s 1920s classic The Vortex, Antipodean Kerry Fox has been busy practising her Charleston shuffle.

In 2004 Australian Sarah Kendall became the first comedienne to be nominated for Perrier Award in almost a decade. Now she's bringing her hilarious and unique brand of political comedy to Soho Theatre from 5-9 February. Get in quick for your chance to catch this critically acclaimed Aussie stand-up comedienne ...

Australian comic Nick Sun is performing his stream of consciousness, absurdist free form, free-wheeling 'Death is a Work in Progress' show at Soho Theatre. Performing three shows only from Thursday 17 January - Saturday 19 January, Aussie fans should get in quick.

Australian-born Claudia O’Doherty brings her eccentric ‘this is not comedy’ comedy show, The Telescope, to Soho Theatre from 9 - 12 January.

A comedy night for the insatiably sci-curious - stand-up mathematician Australian Matt Parker, geek songstress Helen Arney and TV experiments guy Steve Mould explore who we are and where we come from in their new show ‘Life, Oh Life’ at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London.

INTERVIEW | Ahead of her UK tour with Brendan Cole’s Licence to Thrill stage show spectacular, dancing star Melanie Hooper talks to GEORGIA DAWES about growing up in the Australian ballroom dancing world and the rollercoaster ride of Dancing With The Stars.

The premiere of Les Miserables in Sydney stopped thousands of shoppers in their tracks, as Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe walked a red carpet that ran the length of Pitt Street Mall.

REVIEW | Sam Simmons's show About the Weather at Soho Theatre is to stand-up what Lady Gaga is to Britney Spears style sanitized pop. The genre’s crazier, unpredictable, more theatrical cousin.

Modern day mime with a twist, Sam Wills is The Boy With Tape on His Face. Ahead of the West End run of his critically acclaimed show this Christmas, The Boy talks with ALEX BRUCE-SMITH whilst he still can.

New series Arrow airing now in the UK guest stars up and coming Aussie actress, Jessica de Gouw.

Les Miserables stars, including Hugh Jackman and Russel Crowe, dazzle at film’s London premiere.

INTERVIEW | She crowd surfs, she smokes not one but two (fake) cigarettes at once and she can sing beautifully in three languages (English, French and German). She is postmodern cabaret sensation Meow Meow and she is ready to set the Southbank Centre stage on fire in her show Little ...