Tag: Barry Humphries

From WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Australia's answer to Justin Bieber, Australian Times got it straight from the horse's mouth in 2013. Here are this year's Top 10 interviews.

REVIEW | Eat, Pray, Laugh! Barry Humphries Farwell Tour at the London Palladium is probably the furthest thing from a stage version of the best-selling novel Eat, Pray, Love.

INTERVIEW | With a career spanning more than half a century, BARRY HUMPHRIES has been a godfather-like figure in the Australian entertainment scene, with his work leaving an undeniable impact on theatregoers, critics and fans the world over. KIEL EGGING sits down with the veteran entertainer to discover why some ...

As Barry Humphries announces Dame Edna Everage's retirement with a final Eat, Pray, Laugh! UK tour, including a run at London's Palladium, we reflect on our top 5 Dame Edna career highlights as we prepare to say - Goodbye Possum!

The legendary entertainer Barry Humphries and his well-known alter-egos — inebriated cultural attaché the Honorable Sir Les Patterson, Sandy Stone and irrepressible Dame Edna Everage — will bid adieu to their London fans at the iconic London Palladium with a farewell tour Eat, Pray, Laugh!.

Good Living Street, a book by Professor Tim Bonyhady, gives an extraordinary account of Viennese life and culture in the early 20th century. Barry Humphries discussed the book with the author at Australia House.

She's not shy but she is retiring, and Dame Edna Everage has similar advice for how Julia Gillard might boost her popularity: "Retirement, I'm afraid."

Aussie author Tim Griggs has lived and worked on more continents than most people will visit in their lifetimes. The corporate writer-come-journalist-now-novelist met with EMILY BANYARD in London to chat about Churchill, travel, living in the UK and his new novel, Distant Thunder.

When Dame Edna graces the London stage in the pantomime production of Dick Whittington, it’s not just the Aussies in the audience who swoon. TIM MARTIN found out that the Brits are actually quite fond of the ‘housewife from Melbourne’ too and she’s right at home in panto.

An Australian's time spent in the UK can be filled with any number of traditionally English experiences. But one is both easily experienced and a truly English cultural experience, going to see a pantomime.

It’s that time of year when London decks the halls and gets fully into the Christmas spirit. From festive lights to winter pub specials, panto theatrics to ice skating on the Thames, NINA McGRATH explores what the English capital has in store for us at this time of the year. ...