Tag: Stage and screen

Australian actress Natasha Leigh joins the cast of long-running UK soap Holby City. She chats to PAUL BLEAKLEY about adapting the Aussie accent to the medical lingo.

INTERVIEW | With his unique brand of absurdist comedy, it is likely that there will be a lot more to Sam Simmons UK stand-up show About The Weather than just the weather. Just don’t ask him what it all means…

REVIEW | Judith Lucy’s Nothing Fancy is irreverent, awkward, hilarious and uniquely Australian.

REVIEW | Ordinary Darkness by Shaky Islands Theatre at Hen and Chickens Theatre in Highbury, London.

INTERVIEW I Ashleigh Lawrence talks to PAUL BLEAKLEY about filming in Bournemouth, honing her craft in LA and how ‘webisodes’ could be the making of young Aussie actors.

It’s at #ImaCelebrity and all over my nightly ITV2, but for this Australian viewer, the UK reality TV phenomenon I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here should be trending at #ImaBoredViewerGetMeAwayFromThisMonotony. And I’m pretty sure I’ve seen bigger spiders in my bathroom.

Award-winning Australian musical The Hatpin makes its European debut in London, retelling the chilling true story of one mother’s desperate plight to retrieve her missing child.

Shakespeare for the masses: A madcap, playful romp through the classics with CW Productions & Straylight Australia’s double bill of Shakespeare’s Queens and The Madness of King Lear.

The Sapphires will be flying the flag for the Australian movie industry at the upcoming BFI London Film Festival.

Australian stand-up comedy duo Aamer Rahman and Nazeem Hussain had a hit on their hands at Edinburgh last year, with their show 'Fear of a Brown Planet'. Now they have just finished their first UK tour. We talk to Nazeem and Aamer about the show, Muslim identity and the recent ...

Australian Times talks to Home and Away actor Robert Mammone about his role in the hit Aussie series Underbelly.

REVIEW | Sunday at the Apartment, 30 September 2012

Australian Clare Stewart reinvigorates BFI London Film Festival 2012 with an expansion of venues and a unique programme. With a number of Australian films on the bill, including The Sapphires and Wish You Were Here, get in quick to buy newly released tickets and support Aussie cinema.

REVIEW | Benedict Andrews directs his version of the classic Russian play, Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, at the Young Vic.

Award winning comedian Matt Okine launches his first full-length stand-up on London audiences at the Soho Theatre. GARETH MOHEN experiences the roller-coaster of hilarious highs and poignant lows, and talks with the comedian about what inspired his insightful and intelligent show.

FilmFest Australia kicked off on the weekend with packed theatres in Clapham enjoying a smorgasbord of Australian independent film.

Whether it’s Barney from How I Met Your Mother shooting fireballs to get a girls number, or ‘Dynamo’ pulling a Jesus and walking across the Thames, magic is back!

Ronny Chieng once claimed that if he had his own Wikipedia page all his dreams would be fulfilled and he would stop working.

We give you a rundown of some of the best films to go and see at FilmFest Australia.

It is time! The Aussie cinematic event of the year - FilmFest Australia — is here and the team behind the former London Australian Film Festival are ultra-excited to be bringing two unmissable weekends of Australian cinema to the capital.

FilmFest Australia has named Geoffrey Rush and Noah Taylor as Festival Patrons for 2012.

One of Australia’s most decorated directors — Fred Schepisi — will be celebrated at London’s FilmFest Australia this week. GUY LOGAN talks with the film doyen about his new film The Eye of the Storm, Aboriginal abuse, and his favourite London food haunts.

After a turbulent career post-Priscilla, director Stephan Elliott is back with his first Aussie film in over a decade. LARA BRUNT finds out what his new “big, dumb, comedy” is about and what he’s been up to since his infamous “cock in a frock on a rock” movie.

REVIEW | A new wedding day disaster movie from the director of Priscilla is set to screen at FilmFest Australia this month and will most likely appeal to gross-out comedy fans (and long suffering Olivia Newton-John aficionados).

REVIEW | Heath Franklin has a charisma about him and obviously has the potential and skills to go much further but his Chopper approach was lost on the audience at times.

Get excited London Aussies because there is a hot new Australian film fest coming to town!

What do you do if you find out you’re the subject of online erotic fan fiction co-starring a famous Australian soap star? You could try to get it taken down. You could be chuffed and forward it to all your mates. Or you could create a comedy show around it ...

One of London's best comedy venues, The Good Ship at Kilburn, are running Edinburgh Preview Shows throughout July and on Monday 16 July are hosting an all-Australian stand-up special, with Preview shows from three top Aussie comics.

The usher welcoming us into the theatre looks a lot like the comic Lawrence Leung we’ve come to see tonight. He then takes off his black shirt and tells us he’ll go behind the curtain and we can all cheer him on. The penny drops, it is him. A nice ...

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."

Fresh from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Aussie funnyman Lawrence Leung returns to London's Soho Theatre with his new, adventurous and "beautifully told" one man comedy show - Beginning. Middle. End.

c, the one-woman play by Australian born Nellie McQuinn will appear on a London stage next month, as personal tribute to her best friend, Christie Cunningham, who died when she was sixteen.

Garsington Opera's performance of L'Olimpiade at Wormsley is a musical delight and successfully comic, thanks in no small part to Australian director David Freeman.

Steven McRae, Australian Principal Dancer with the Royal Ballet, starred in the Royal Opera House's performance of La Fille Mal Gardee as it was broadcast to hundreds of cinema screens worldwide.

New Australian film, Blame, centres around a high school music teacher, Bernard (Damian de Montemas), who is suddenly attacked in his home by five young mates who are keen on revenge following the suicide of their friend Alice (Saskia Hampele).

EastEnd Cabaret have returned to London after a very successful tour Down Under, bringing with them their raunchy, and often shocking, style of entertainment. BIANCA SOLDANI caught up with the Melbourne misfits to discuss their unique brand of comedy and their promiscuous residency at a specially commissioned Speigeltent.

In an interview with BIANCA SOLDANI, Australian actor Michael Budd shares his experience of the London theatre world and gives us a behind the scenes glance at working alongside Bruce Willis in his latest blockbuster, The Cold Light of Day.

Australian operatic tenor Stuart Skelton will perform in the English National Opera's new production of Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman."

Nicole Kidman to lead a host of Aussies set to shine at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Australian acting legend Cate Blanchett is wowing London's theatre-going public with an energetic but moving depiction of isolation in the Sydney Theatre Company's new production "Big and Small" at the Barbican.

Fasten your seatbelts and turn off all electric devices: Pam Ann has touched down in the UK and is ready to give London audiences the ride of their lives. Aussie Pam shares a couple nostalgic words about her homeland with BIANCA SOLDANI and explains the challenges involved in wowing her ...

Ordinarily, violence is justifiable against someone using their phone in a film screening, whether they’re making calls, receiving text messages or distracting you with bright lights as they check various sports scores.

Talented Australian comedian Steve Hughes spoke to HANNAH CARRODUS about his philosophies on life, Aussie politics and the end of the world.

Nicola Samer, co-founder of the exciting new theatre production company IronBark, spoke to BIANCA SOLDANI about promoting the work of Australian playwrights in the UK, her experience of the London theatre scene so far and her latest undertaking, Ruben Guthrie.

Sexy Aussie model Miranda Kerr makes her singing debut in a strange Japanese advertisement gone viral.

Ruben Guthrie is the new Australian comedy production from internationally celebrated actor and playwright Brendan Cowell.

Australian comedian and television presenter, Adam Hills, named as a commentator for the London Paralympic games.

Australian editor Kirk Baxter was lost for words after causing a major upset at the 2012 Academy Awards.

The hit Aussie film Red Dog has just opened in the UK after making over $20 million at the Australian box office last year and being hailed as a critical and commercial success.

REVIEW | We’ve all got a chequered Australian past. But could yours destroy your life?