The Gloves Are Off: Maggie Kirkpatrick tells all
At 78 years of age, the irrepressible MAGGIE KIRKPATRICK is telling her life story. The actress spoke candidly with the Star Observer‘s arts and entertainment editor …
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Eternal classic asks tough questions
STAGE Sydney’s much-vaunted Eternity Playhouse opens this week with Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s production of a 1947 work by one of the most celebrated playwrights of …
LaBoite’s gender bending Romeo & Juliet
Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet gets an anarchic, gender-bending new look in La Boite Indie’s final production for 2013, ><R&J (styled as the rather unwieldy ‘Greater …
Haters back off – Miranda’s coming
With more than half a million YouTube subscribers for her 240-odd videos, Miranda Sings is one of the true stars of the internet age. The …
Four men in their underpants
The Star Observer caught recent VCA graduate Matthew Whitty during a break in rehearsals for what’s to be his Red Stitch debut, the Australian premiere …
Iconic monster given a voice
Since novelist Mary Shelley first wrote Frankenstein almost 200 years ago, the chilling story has undergone more than 100 successful adaptations across literature, film and …
Remembrance of parties past
As iconic venues close, queer culture continues its march towards the mainstream and the Oxford St strip putters along, we hear much grumbling that things …
Turning lemons into lemonade
Sydney actor Mark Dessaix is something of a Mardi Gras veteran now, following acclaimed performances in 2010’s Hardcore and last year’s The Temperamentals, he returns …