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By Daily Review
Celebrity endorsements are always useful for presidential candidates, but endorsements from beloved fictional characters are even more valuable. After days of teasing on social media, the four former stars of Will and Grace, Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally, today released a ten-minute reunion mini-episode in favour of Hillary Clinton. Check it out below.
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With the Australian Ballet’s Sydney home, the Opera House’s Joan Sutherland Theatre, closed for seven months next year, the company has unveiled a program which seems designed to attract ballet lovers away from the harbour icon and into Haymarket’s Capitol Theatre. The centrepiece of the season is the Australian premiere of Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The
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By Daily Review
The first debate between presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is airing on ABC’s News 24 channel from 11am to 1pm today. We would usually recommend waiting until at least midday to participate in any form of drinking game, but we don’t see why Australia should miss out on all the fun. We might
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By Raymond Gill
The inaugural Asia TOPA: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts announced its program for January- April 2017 today with 15 nations from the region presenting 60 events across artforms with 25 of those events being commissions or premieres. The festival is the brainchild of Carrillo Gantner and seed-funded by $2 million the Sidney Myer Fund, the Myer Foundation
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By Daily Review
Yesterday, fans of the late ’90s-early 2000s sitcom Will and Grace were rejoicing with news that the four principle cast members were hanging out together. All four stars of the show — Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally and Sean Hayes — posted adorable photos of their meeting on social media channels. Only smiling because of where Eric’s
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The Nix is a remarkably hefty debut novel with a whopping 620 pages, an act of generosity rarely granted by publishers to writers other than to fantasy or science fiction writers who’ve sold at least a trilogy or two. American writer Nathan Hill’s novel is the story of Samuel Andreson-Anderson (he prefers just Anderson) and
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By Helen Razer
It is today, in the 67th year of our Lord Boss, that the faith will be tested. As any Springsteen fan already knows, the word of the saviour will be available in a matter of hours. Hours. You may have doubts about Born to Run, an autobiography inspired by the elation its author felt when
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By Ben Neutze
Jill Soloway’s web TV series Transparent takes pride of place in local streaming service Stan’s international line-up. Back in 2014, when the series premiered and streaming services were still in their infancy in Australia, I wrote a piece: How the TV show of the year came from the internet (and mightn’t make it to Australia). Soon after that piece,
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On a regular Friday evening, the number 16 tram to the buzzing waterfront area of St. Kilda is normally jammed with office workers chasing a drink or three, or young types ready to dance till dawn. The crowd, and dance style were a little different on Friday (September 23) as St. Kilda’s famous old theatre,
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By Ben Neutze
Sydney Theatre Company’s degustation of five new short plays by five of Australia’s leading and emerging women playwrights is a great idea on paper. Melissa Bubnic, Michele Lee, Nakkiah Lui, Hannie Rayson and Debra Thomas. Five women with a diverse range of experiences, some of whom don’t get nearly enough of their works programmed given the
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