by Michael Coghlan | Mar 16, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Live Music, Reviews, Theatre, Theatre & Physical Theatre
[Theatre and Physical Theatre – Music/International] Black Is The Color Of My Voice Adelaide College Of The Arts, Fri 15 Mar, 2024. Apphia Campbell has crafted a wonderful and wonder-filled work to introduce us to the life, art, and voice of Nina Simone. The...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 17, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Oliver Stone (Hachette Australia) 2020, 342pp, RRP: Paperback $35.00. The multi-multi-award-winning Stone’s first of what should be several properly autobiographical tomes is a sometimes intense, occasionally overly personal memoir that, perhaps, is too overloaded...
by Michael Coghlan | Mar 4, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
Bakehouse Theatre – Main Stage, Thu 3 Mar A disappointingly small audience enjoyed this excellent solo performance about the life of Bill Clinton. Based on a play by Rachel Mariner and directed by Guy Masterson, Clinton is played by Bob Paisley and he looks and sounds...
by TheClothesLine | Jun 13, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews, Theatre
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Fri 12 Jun The powerhouse trio of performer Bernadette Robinson, director Simon Phillips and writer Joanna Murray-Smith have united again to create an outstandingly beautiful show. The three previously produced one of the stand-out shows of the...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 16, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Compiled and edited by Shaun Usher (Allen & Unwin Canongate) 2014, 318pp, RRP $59.99 Usher’s follow-up to Letters Of Note is another beautifully glossy tome, this time gathering together 125 lists (presented as is, translated, deciphered or whatever) written by...