Day: 3 May 2016

At Last: The Etta James Story to return to the Sydney Opera House

After a sold out season at Arts Centre Melbourne, At Last: The Etta James Story is set to return to the Sydney Opera House for a one week engagement in mid July. First premièring in 2013, the show has been wowing audiences across Australia and New Zealand, telling the story of legendary soul singer Etta James, who did…

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Top 5 must-see shows at Anywhere Festival 2016

On Thursday, Anywhere Festival opens in Brisbane, for another month of innovative and independent performance, taking place just about anywhere except a theatre. With so much going on, us good folks here at the AU Review have decided to make things a little easier for you and compiled a list of the top 5 shows you’d…

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Theatre Review: VELVET, Cremorne Theatre, QPAC (performances to 15th May)

After a successful run at the Brisbane Powerhouse during last year’s Brisbane Festival, raucous disco cabaret VELVET made a triumphant return to the River City, taking over the Cremorne Theatre at QPAC. Once a huge fan of the standard cabaret fare, the borderline offensive humour and the sexy-but-kinda-weird acts offered by shows like Club Swizzle, Absinthe, and La…

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Lunch with the man behind Melbourne’s The Meatball and Wine Bar, Matteo Bruno

When I first stumbled across The Meatball Shop in New York’s Lower East Side back in 2011, it had barely been open for a year, but the owners were already preparing to expand to two more locations – and, five years later, they now sit in six locations across Manhattan and Brooklyn. Things move pretty fast in New York. In…

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