by Lynette Washington | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Joanna Rakoff (Bloomsbury) 2015, 503pp, RRP $32.99 Joanna Rakoff was a popular speaker at the 2015 Adelaide Writers’ Week, where she spoke about her excellent memoir, My Salinger Year. Subsequent to the success of her visit, her first novel, A Fortunate Age, was...
by Lynette Washington | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Sean Michaels (Bloomsbury) 2015, 347pp, RRP $19.99 Leon Termen is a scientific genius. Among many other things, he invented the Theremin, a musical instrument unlike any other. In the 1920s he leaves his homeland Russia to, ostensibly, promote his instrument in the...
by Lynette Washington | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Leah Kaminsky (Random House) 2015, 286pp, RRP $32.99 Dina is the Australian-raised daughter of Jews displaced by World War II. She has married an Israeli man and is living in the melting-pot Israeli city of Haifa with their son. Heavily pregnant with her second child,...
by Lynette Washington | Jul 18, 2015 | Entertainment, Film, Music, Musical Theatre, Reviews
Festival Theatre, Fri 17 Jul The Festival Theatre was overflowing with nuns, Marias, Gretas, Baronesses, brown paper packages tied up with strings, girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes and there was even a small gazebo in the stalls. It could only mean one...
by Lynette Washington | Jul 11, 2015 | Music, Reviews, Theatre
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Fri Jul 10 John Waters and Stewart D’Arrietta have been performing Lennon: Through A Glass Onion in one form or another since 1992, including over 120 performances off-Broadway in its recent American run. This is an astonishing record for any...