
No caveats, qualifications, ifs, buts, or maybes. If you're looking for the finest young string players in this country and, most probably, well beyond, this is where you'll find them.

That an Australian band comprised of hot, young jazz players should delve so deeply, authentically, respectfully and inventively into this exotic music is courageous and laudable.

Robots vs Art is just as much fun as the title suggests. Like all good comedy, it is underpinned by serious questions – in this case, about the role of art and the nature of humanity – and leaves you thinking as well as laughing.

Ellen Byron's semi-sequential companion pieces, played in reverse order, currently enjoying a season at Marrickville's Sidetrack Theatre, are probably just what the doctor ordered.

Both maids dream of freedom but do either of them have the nerve to actually kill their mistress when she returns?

I loved this show. At the end of it I felt like having a quick drink, going back into the theatre and watching it all over again. And I wasn’t alone.

The Omri Mor Trio is one of the most intoxicating things to happen in world jazz. Ever.