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Reality shows usually get a bad rap, responsible as they are for the careers of product-shilling Instagram influencers and even one megalomaniac president. They’re thought to bring out the worst in people, and satisfy the devilish pleasure we get from watching others embarrass themselves. But some reality shows elevate this much-maligned genre, offering windows into
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Postcard from Minneapolis and New York City Blackout Improv; Mixed Blood Theatre, Prescient Harbingers; Aleshea Harris, What to Send Up When It Goes Down; Jeremy O. Harris, Slave Play Since I started visiting the US regularly one of my biggest lessons has come from encountering racial politics (and identity politics generally) in a much more
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Another year, another bumper crop of tunes. But while some years display a discernable shift in musical trends or production styles, 2018 was a year of fragmentation. Great albums were peppered out throughout the year across a broad spectrum of genres. Drake, George Ezra, Calvin Harris and Ariana Grande were among the familiar names to
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All those end of year pronouncements about what a year it’s been, what’s been the biggest issues and who has been the noisiest newsmakers, plus the usual lists from arts and cultural sites about best films and books – it has a tiredness to it in 2018, don’t you think? The best novel lists used
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How dumb is a rock? The time has come for an answer. We simply cannot have the US President, Donald Trump, hurling it about with gay abandon into public discourse, without an answer. In the latest incident, Trump described Rex Tillerson (above left), who for barely more than a year was his secretary of state,
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This show crashes into Melbourne for Midsumma, flung from space via the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. The self-described space-fiction confidently incorporates diverse musical genres, large projections and Auslan to create an energised vision of queer and accessible futures. Calling itself a “modern mythology, a queer tale, an abstract adventure,” Queen Kong’s commitment to colliding space and time is
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By Shane Murphy
Sometimes the best gifts are the unexpected ones. I’d been wanting to get tickets to Dick Diver pre-Christmas shows at the Tote but they’d sold out within minutes. Resigned to missing out, I still kept my eyes peeled and happened to see a small link in a marketing email saying there was a Monday afternoon
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There are objectively bad movies, and then there are movies as objectively bad as Aquaman: the kind of candy-coloured studio-dictated desecration the late comedian Bill Hicks would likely describe using words such as “Satan’s spawn” and “devil’s jizz.” The DCEU blockbuster arrives the same year as Avengers: Infinity War, which marked a new low in
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There was a great disturbance in the force when it was announced there was going to be a new Mary Poppins movie. Messing with such a beloved classic that’s stood the test of time and entertained youngsters and their parents since its 1964 release was always going to be risky. The big question was, how
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“Love,” so the song pile-driven deep into your brain goes, “will never let you be the same.” Which goes for the show, too. You can’t unsee Aspects Of Love, the sweepingly silly Andrew Lloyd Webber musical extravagantly revived at the Hayes Theatre. You certainly can’t unhear Love Changes Everything, its saccharine strains injected into every
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