Why do people get married? Why would a person willing choose to legally and financially bind themselves to another person, particularly in 2023? For love? Security? A great big party? It’s this myth of marital happiness that author Clementine Ford will explore in I Don’t: The Case Against Marriage, due for release on the 31 … [Read more…]
Lace up your blue suede shoes and get ready to relive the storied life of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Elvis Presley in the premiere of a brand new bio-musical – Elvis: A Musical Revolution. Following successful Australian runs of The Wedding Singer and Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical, David Venn Enterprises presents a … [Read more…]
By Robert Hardman for the Daily Mail 22:21 30 May 2023, updated 02:26 31 May 2023 They have a new bicentenary slogan on the Oxford Union Society’s literature this year: ‘Celebrating 200 years of free speech’. Last night, a vociferous alliance from across the ‘trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming and intersex’ community was doing its best … [Read more…]
Norm Lewis. | Joan Marcus LOS ANGELES — An enlisted man strikes out at his commanding officer during wartime and is promptly sent to the brig. The charge is mutiny. This may sound like the germ of Herman Melville’s novella Billy Budd, memorably turned into an all-male opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by … [Read more…]
On the coldest May night in living memory for Sydneysiders, venturing out to a gig wasn’t on the top of my priorities list as I sat in front of the fire wondering if I should have a beer while my girlfriend got ready for night shift on a hospital ward. Fortunately, I decided drinking at … [Read more…]
On a frozen plateau somewhere near the South Pole, Robert Scott and his band of explorers trudge towards their deaths. It’s a difficult scenario to recreate in sunny Sydney, where the Sydney Theatre Company production Do Not Go Gentle makes its mainstage debut on Saturday, complete with icy blizzards and edible snow. “We knew we … [Read more…]
In a time when adult dramas struggle to make a profit, A Man Called Otto became one of the sleeper hits of 2023. In the film directed by Marc Forster, Tom Hanks stars as Otto Anderson, a grumpy widower struggling to cope after losing his wife six months prior. Having lost his will to live, Otto … [Read more…]
In a time when adult dramas struggle to make a profit, A Man Called Otto became one of the sleeper hits of 2023. In the film directed by Marc Forster, Tom Hanks stars as Otto Anderson, a grumpy widower struggling to cope after losing his wife six months prior. Having lost his will to live, Otto … [Read more…]
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Art and environmentalism meet this weekend in a unique Bentway presentation that turns the world upside down; well, not the whole world exactly but a 40-member cast of mostly amateur, locally recruited performers willing to stand on their heads for as long as they can with their upper bodies shrouded in flowing skirts to create … [Read more…]
SHIPPENVILLE – The Clarion County Career Center held its Senior Recognition program May 18 at the Cornerstone Church of Clarion in Shippenville. The Class of 2023 had 85 seniors who were recognized at the awards ceremony. Traci Wildeson, director of the Career Center, led the event as the master of ceremonies. Thirty-nine students were recognized … [Read more…]