Jason Cavanagh has flicked the switch on a big experiment that he hopes could transform independent theatre in Melbourne. It’s called MotleyGO, and it’s a digital streaming platform for subscribers (yes, another one). But his bet is that the so-called “pivot to digital” in the performing arts wasn’t just a pandemic moment. In fact, he […]

By Roslyn Sulcas July 6, 2022 — 4.00pm David Tennant, sitting in a wicker chair in the large, empty garden of a grand hotel, gestured at its pink pillared veranda. “An appropriate setting!” he said, alluding to the colonial era architecture and his role in Around the World in 80 Days, a new television series […]

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By Mikey Cahill July 6, 2022 — 2.02pm “I’m the head alchemiser, the ladyboss, the chief,” says Moira Finucane, Melbourne’s indefatigable cabaret Swiss army knife, describing her role in her latest art experience, dubbed FUTURE.JOY.CLUB. “Young, old, gay, straight, well-heeled, high-heeled mothers and mother lovers, queer as f—: this is your club,” she decrees. Head […]

When Grammy Award-winning producer Jack Antonoff tweeted that he “went very hard on this Minions soundtrack,” he wasn’t kidding. Typically, when we think of music in movies, we immediately conjure up dramatic Hans Zimmer instrumentals, or hits re-purposed for a killer opening scene – like The Rolling Stone’s Gimme Shelter playing over Jack Nicholson’s thick […]

The thing I like most about Physical is the show’s unwavering refusal to be likeable. Headlined by Rose Byrne and her bountiful Jaclyn Smith-worthy hair, Apple TV+’s acerbic 1980s comedydrama about a San Diego housewife who finds self-purpose with the advent of aerobics is driven by the sting of self-loathing. Now in its second season, […]

It was 2017 when Netflix introduced the “skip intro” button on their programs, saving us all precious time while simultaneously breaking the hearts of the people whose job is to design the opening titles of TV shows. The streaming giant estimates that the button is pressed roughly 136 million times per day, saving audiences 195 […]

Under the Banner of Heaven ★★★★★Disney+ This exceptional true-crime drama arrives with a huge amount of gravity, being based as it is on the gruesome 1984 murders of Utah woman Brenda Lafferty and her 15-month-old daughter, Erica, by her Mormon extremist in-laws Ron and Dan Lafferty, who claimed they were obeying a revelation from God. […]

By Peter McCallum July 6, 2022 — 10.20am La Traviata ★★★★½Opera Australia, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Opera House, July 5 until November 4As the effervescent hostess with the troubled smile, v, the “fallen one”, sings Act 1 of La Traviata with a voice of fluid precision that cuts through the hubbub like a ribbon of silky […]

“It was huge for us, being from the country and totally oblivious to the musical landscape in Sydney,” Curtis recalls. “It was actually quite a shock coming to Sydney and being part of that. Everyone else was classically trained, having lessons from a younger age, and then here’s Jeff and I. We actually got accepted […]