Ben Neutze, Author at Daily Review: Film, stage and music reviews, interviews and more.

It’s the shock announcement few in the media saw coming: after more than a decade behind the desk, Lisa Wilkinson has …

ABC’s Screen Time: can new culture criticism show step out of David and Margaret’s shadow?

Two widely loved and respected giants cast a long shadow over screen criticism on Australian TV: David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz. …

Miracle City has taken a long road to its own promised land: the Sydney Opera House. The Australian musical, penned by composer …

It’s not a great week for the beleaguered Ten Network: first its much-hyped remake of Wake in Fright debuted to disappointing ratings, …

American writer Jonathan Tolins’ hit 2013 one-man play Buyer and Cellar stands as proof that truth is far stranger than fiction. The …

For many years, Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 psychological thriller Wake in Fright was considered Australia’s great “lost” film. The movie, based on Kenneth …

In 1991, Australian band Yothu Yindi had an unexpected dancefloor hit with Treaty, a song responding to then Prime Minister Bob Hawke’s …

The return of late ’90s sitcom Will & Grace, after 11 years off the air, has proven a huge ratings hit in …

I don’t envy anybody working at Kings Cross Theatre having to find a way to market Puntila/Matti to a Sydney audience. Describing …

The battlefield for the latest embarrassing war over same-sex marriage was declared earlier this week: American pop and rap music. …