the AU review interviews US stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan where we chat about laziness, his memoir Dad Is Fat and latest book Food: A Love Story detailing his obsession, inspiration and chronicles of food… as well as the challenge of appealing to a foreign audience. This is the third and final part of our interview…
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Larry Heath sits down with Daniel Clarkson, co-writer, co-performer and co-creator of the internationally touring comedy show Potted Potter, which condenses all seven Harry Potter books into seventy minutes. Following a successful run of the show in 2012 with other actors, Dan is currently in Australia touring the show with the other half of the…
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The 4th Annual Just For Laughs Festival came to an end in Sydney over the weekend with a string of hilarious appearances from some of the worlds finest comedians. Though as is the case most years, the hottest ticket this weekend was the Gala, taking over the Concert Hall on Saturday night. With names like…
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Jim Gaffigan is funny. He’s an American comedian in every respect, filling his set with American themes, references and characters – though that’s not to say he doesn’t work hard at being accessible. His set on Thursday Night at the Sydney Just for Laughs festival (his second of three) was filled with his first impressions…
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Jim Gaffigan sits down with the AU to talk about his first ever visit to Australia – eating meat pies, how he feels like he’s accepted in Australia being an American and playing the Sydney Opera House as part of the Just For Laughs Festival in Sydney as part of his “White Bread Tour”. Jim…
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Comedian Rhys Darby kicked off the Australian tour of his new show Rhys Darby Live! on Monday night with the first of two sold-out shows at Perth’s Astor Theatre. Whilst Darby is perhaps best known as the lovably inept band manager Murray Hewitt from Flight of the Conchords, he has had a long and successful…
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Photo: Allan E. Schoening Having been in Australia for a few dates already on his ‘Hello Humans’ tour, comedian/artist/musician and more, Reggie Watts, still has some time left in the country, currently gearing up for some shows in Sydney as part of Just For Laughs and a final gig in Perth. Larry chats with him…
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As Montreal’s famed company Cirque du Soleil celebrates its 30th Anniversary, they are getting ready to bring their latest production TOTEM to Australia. To get our head around what we can expect from the new show, we are catching up with the performers and creative minds of the show. Our third and final performer for…
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the AU review sits down with Director Eamon Flack and Actor Luke Mullins to talk about their Belvoir St Theatre production of the classic Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie, which is in performances until the 2nd of November. We find out what makes this production unique and what it’s like to work together again…
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As Montreal’s famed company Cirque du Soleil celebrates its 30th Anniversary, they are getting ready to bring their new production TOTEM to Australia. To get our head around what we can expect from the new show, we will be catching up with the performers and creative minds of the show over the coming weeks. Next…
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Jim Gaffigan, family man, food lover, and comedian is heading our way for the first time to perform at Sydney’s Just For Laughs. the AU review’s Perri Cassie caught up with him as he anticipates hsi first visit down under, and the release of his eagerly anticipated second book ‘Food: A Love Affair’ You’re touring…
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Falling Through Clouds is the new production from Perth theatre company – The Last Great Hunt. Personally I’d argue that that sentence alone should be enough to make you want to go and watch this work. But then of course you might not know who they are yet. If you don’t Falling Through Clouds will…
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By the time the hit musical Wicked ended its run on 26th September 2010 at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney it had brought in over $50 million in ticket sales, being seen by over half a million people, before moving on to Brisbane. By the time it ended its tour in Perth, it had been…
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Letters Home is the latest theatrical work from Joe Lui. If you’ve been to a theatre production in Perth over the last few years, it’s likely you will have seen Lui’s name and face in a programme somewhere having worked as a director, writer and designer on a number of productions, including with his own…
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With her scripts for Mabo and Brides of Christ, Australian writer Sue Smith has never shied away from controversial or important topics. In her new play Kryptonite, which premiered this week in Sydney as a co-production between the Sydney Theatre Company and the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Smith tackles the relationship between Australia…
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We chat to stage actors Alex Rathgeber and Claire Lyon about their roles as Billy Crocker and Hope Harcourt in the new version of Anything Goes – the classic Broadway Musical – hitting Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in Australia in 2015. We also discuss their experiences with Phantom of the Opera, which Claire is currently…
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As Montreal’s famed company Cirque du Soleil celebrates its 30th Anniversary, they are getting ready to bring their new production TOTEM to Australia. To get our head around what we can expect from the new show, we will be catching up with the performers and creative minds of the show over the coming weeks. First…
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The Distance from Here is the latest production from Perth theatre company Endless Theatre Company. Written by American director, screenwriter and playwright Neil LaBute, the play is a dark and at times brutal look at life on the fringes of suburbia, a tale populated by disenchanted youth and their extended families. Though set in suburban…
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the AU review talks to the star of the stage, Caroline O’Connor, about playing Reno Sweeney, in the new version of Anything Goes – the classic Broadway Musical – hitting Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in Australia in 2015. SEASON DETAILS Princess Theatre, Melbourne Season: From 31 May, 2015 Performance Times: Wed–Sat 7.30pm, Matinees Tues &…
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When you ask people if they like musicals, one either gets an enthusiastic smile accompanied by a big “YES”! or an unapologetic “NO”, as a look of disdain comes across their face. When you dig a little deeper, it comes out that it’s not so much musicals like Mary Poppins that they’re talking about –…
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White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, the final instalment in Perth Theatre Company’s 2014 season, is not your average night at the theatre. Written by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour, White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is more akin to performance art than traditional theatre. Each night a different unsuspecting performer takes up the challenge of acting out Soleimanpour’s script,…
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Anything Goes has captivated millions of people over decades with its delightful story of madcap antics aboard the S.S. American. The winner of three Tony Awards, Anything Goes is a nautical favorite and is returning to Australia in 2015 with a brand new production that reunites Opera Australia with producer John Frost, as their production…
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the AU review sits down with Australian Les Misérables cast members, Simon Gleeson (Jean Valjean) and Kerrie Anne Greenland (Éponine), to talk about the new multi-million dollar production, the run in Melbourne so far and we look ahead to their arrival in Sydney in March 2015. Les Misérables is currently in Melbourne and will move…
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On Wednesday night Perth’s His Majesty’s Theatre stage was transformed into the ornate halls of the Vatican for the opening night of The Last Confession, presented here for the first time in Australia, with venerated British actor David Suchet (Poirot to so many) making his Australian stage debut as Cardinal Benelli. Set in 1978, The…
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Satyagraha is the third opera of the Philip Glass Trilogy that the State Opera of South Australia has presented this week. Telling the story of Gandhi, it draws inspiration and fragments from the first two Operas. It has the repetitive melody of Einstein on the Beach but is more story based like Akhnaten. The play…
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Larry Heath sat down with two-thirds of Australian comedian trio Axis of Awesome just before they hit the stage back in May 2014 at the YouTube Fan Fest. You can now listen to our full conversation here:
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The Imperial War Museums (IWM) flagship location in London has spent the last year undergoing a transformation in anticipation of the centenary of the First World War (WWI). This past weekend, the transformed museum reopened to the public for the first time, featuring a major redevelopment of their Atrium, designed by Foster + Partners, two…
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This week, the surviving members of iconic British Comedy troupe Monty Python bring their run of “reunion” shows in London to an end. Their first performances under the Python banner since 1980’s infamous Hollywood Bowl gig, their return to the stage was met with as much anticipation as it was trepidation – aren’t they too…
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We all have our slight addictions, many of them relatively benign like coffee. For others like the protagonists of Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography, the most recent production in Perth Theatre Company’s 2014 season, they are more extreme and not without their consequences – whether it be his addiction to hardcore pornography on the Internet…
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