Festival Theatre, Thu Sep 4 The 2014 OzAsia Festival kicked off in reflective-then-dramatic style with Red Sorghum, an epic dance show which promised meditations on love, affection and patriotism in China’s...
Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Sun Aug 31 Bob Dylan turned 73 this year but continues to tour, and while reports vary as to when he was last in Adelaide (surely it was 2011 when he was in town with B.B....
Axel Scheffler (Nosy Crow), 2014, RRP $15.99 From the illustrator of The Gruffalo, Stick Man and Room On The Broom, comes the second book in the Flip Flap series; Flip Flap Safari. Have you ever heard...
David Stuart MacLean (Faber) 2014, 256pp, RRP $27.99 MacLean was an Ohio-born writing student on a scholarship in India when he came to in a crowded train station not knowing who he was or how he got there,...
Virginia Macgregor (Sphere) 2014, 388pp, RRP $29.99 Milo is a 9-year old boy with Retinitis Pigmentosa. His vision is gradually failing; he can only see through a diminishing pinhole and one day he will...
Kylie Ladd (Allen & Unwin) 2014, 274pp, RRP $29.99 Kylie Ladd’s fourth novel, Mothers And Daughters, holds a lot of promise. The set-up is immediately alluring: four mothers and their teenage daughters...
Tony Husband (Murdoch) 2014, 64pp, RRP $16.99 Take Care, Son – The Story of My Dad and His Dementia is a touching, relevant and easily accessible account of one family’s experience as their loved...
Marion Field (Right Way) 2014, 176pp, RRP $19.99 Do you know what a gerund is? Did you know that there are many different forms of pronouns: personal, demonstrative, possessive, reflexive, intensive, interrogative?...
Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Fri Aug 8 It’s Friday night at The Gov, and levels of expectancy are running high. Ed Kuepper, a genuine one-of-a-kind, lopes out to his centre stage seat and selects one of the three...
Festival Theatre, Thu Aug 7. Everyone loves a party so there is no surprise in promoters actively touting Australia’s latest production of GREASE as the No. 1 Party Musical. Those old enough to line...
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