Phil Brown
Back to Bilo: Refugee family’s nightmare ordeal retold on stage
It’s a story years in the making and one with a happy ending that makes it perfect for the stage. Back to...
Acropolis … wow! First-time in Athens
Sitting at breakfast watching the morning light play across the Parthenon and other ruins atop the Acropolis, you tend to pinch yourself....
Sting’s hit musical The Last Ship bound for Australia
Seventeen-time Grammy Award-winning artist Sting will bring a renewed version of his musical The Last Ship to Australia next year. The global...
Memories of Michael Hutchence: The rock star across the road
When I read that my childhood friend Michael Hutchence’s song Never Tear Us Apart was named the best Australian song of all...
Unplugged: Up close and personal with Geldof
Bob Geldof is touring Australia for evenings of intimate chat about life, which “happens to everyone”, and – “WTF” – he’ll sing...
Ben Elton is on a mission to save humanity – but not from AI, stupid!
It’s a serious business, this comedy lark. Well, it is for Ben Elton, anyway. It’s no laughing matter. Except when it is....
Up close and personal with Bluey’s creator
Joe Brumm cuts a pretty low profile for someone who has had such a global impact. He is, after all, the creator...
When in Rome, do what the Athenians do (i.e. not very much)
We are planning an overseas holiday again next year and I have already started organising it. This is strange, since I prefer...
Can you bare it? US artist wants more to sign for mass nude shoot
Famed American artist and photographer Spencer Tunick will soon arrive in Australia for another mass nude photo shoot – and we’re all...
The greatest love stories ever told: Trent Dalton bares his soul
At a rehearsal of the production that’s destined to be one of the hits at this year’s Brisbane Festival, there is a...