Category: Features – Archive

March 1, 2020 / Features - Archive

Destructive streaming services are not going to stop him. Nor are people smearing their shoddy videos across YouTube like so much audio-visual graffiti. No, Pat Metheny remains committed to the album as a work of art. When the guitarist, who has popularised sonic adventuring like few others, returns to these…

February 27, 2020 / Features - Archive

No one can accuse David Williamson of going out quietly. Having called it a day on a half-century play-writing career comprising over 50 works, he currently has his two final plays, Family Values (Stables) and Crunch Time (Ensemble), playing simultaneously in Sydney with a revival of Emerald City in Brisbane…

January 17, 2020 / Features - Archive

The haze of sad and sorry shows could not extinguish 2019’s brightest lights, including watching Jonathan Biggins become the missing link between Paul Keating and Krapp. Decades of The Wharf Revue had demonstrated Biggins’ intelligent versatility, but in his own The Gospel According to Paul and Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape…