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Rosamund Brennan

Rosamund Brennan is a freelance journalist focusing on culture and society, based in Fremantle, Western Australia

June 2024

  • Sophia Forrest in Prima Facie

    ‘The hardest thing I’ve ever done’: Sophia Forrest, the star taking on all 26 roles in Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie

  • Jerry Seinfeld performs at Stand Up For Heroes, presented by the New York Comedy Festival and the Bob Woodruff Foundation, at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, in New York. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

    Jerry Seinfeld live review – crotchety comic is still at the top of his game

May 2024

  • Butler in front of a wall painted with black and white triangles

    Walk with ...
    John Butler: ‘For 25 years I ripped my heart out on stage … now I’m paying the piper’

    The guitar virtuoso on his ‘existential breakdown’, his disdain for fake news and the new album that’s bringing him back to life

April 2024

  • Mojos bar in Fremantle, Western Australia

    Australia's best music venues
    ‘There’s history in these walls’: is Mojos in Fremantle Australia’s best music venue?

  • Festivalgoers from the air

    ‘This place is a gem’: in remote Australia, a cultural festival thousands of years in the making

  • Fiona Wood on the foreshore of Perth's Matilda Bay

    Walk with ...
    Fiona Wood: ‘When I’ve got a bee in my bonnet, I don’t give up’

  • Glass bush bananas placed on a flat surface glowing green in the blue darkness

    ‘Like a radioactive cloud’: elegance and horror combine in powerful Yhonnie Scarce exhibition

February 2024

  • The shopping centre food court with its floor covered with water

    ‘Nature will have her way’: how a desolate Perth shopping mall has been transformed into a sprawling wetland

    Perth festival is offering a last chance to spend time in the abandoned Carillon City before it is demolished. It’s not as you remember it

December 2023

  • Composite image for best theatre of 2024 featuring (L-R) Nadia ‘Nadeeya’ Gabrieli Kalati performs Bikutsi 3000, Nikki Shiels in Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Sunday, Mary Poppins the Musical and Taylor Mac's show Bark of Millions

    Australia year in review 2023
    Australia on stage: the best theatre, musicals, dance and opera of 2023

  • Lucy Maunder (Roxy Hart) and Anthony Warlow (Billy Flynn)in the Australian 2023 production of Chicago.

    Chicago review – masterful star-studded production kicks off Australian tour

November 2023

  • Chris Martin performs with Coldplay in Perth

    Coldplay review: Music of the Spheres tour brings fireworks, aliens and radical optimism to Perth

    Coldplay’s show at Optus Stadium was a childhood fantasy writ-large, wavering between head-spinning nausea and starry-eyed rapture

September 2023

  • Carnaby's Black Cockatoo in flight

    ‘They used to blacken the sky’: the siren song of the magnificent Carnaby’s cockatoo

    These gentle, gleeful birds once watched over Perth like sentinels but are now endangered as their habitat disappears

August 2023

  • Warnarral Ngoorrngoorrool on the Warmun Joonba grounds. Photo by Jess Wyld. Only for use in piece on The Journey Down, a roving performance art/installation taking place through September 2023 from the Kimberley to Perth.

    ‘An Aussie icon’: burnt-out car wreck begins 4,356km journey across Western Australia

  • A quokka

    ‘I was sleeping on a gravesite’: Rottnest Island’s complex history brought to light

February 2023

  • Harry Styles in a Love on Tour show

    Harry Styles arrives in Australia – prompting a stampede, shoeys and screaming teens

  • Nadia ‘Nadeeya’ Gabrieli Kalati performs Bikutsi 3000

    Perth festival 2023 opens to the world – with Aboriginal techno, the promise of Björk and uncomfortable truths

January 2023

  • Composite for Summer in the City. From left to right: Eryn Jean Norville in the Picture of Dorian Gray for STC, Cathy-Di Zhang as Zerlina and Andrei Kymach as Don Giovanni, Phoebe Bridgers, Hide the Dog and 2021 winner Caleb Thaiday aka Ceruleun

    Summer essentials
    Summer in the City: the best events and things to do in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and beyond – our ultimate what’s on guide

    We’ve handpicked the most unmissable arts, festivals and gigs in every capital city through December, January and February – and we’ll update it regularly

November 2022

  • Santi Ikto, Giants of Mandurah by Thomas Dambo. Western Australia

    ‘Magic in your own back yard’: Danish artist hides enormous trolls deep in Western Australia

    Featuring six trolls made out of salvaged scrap wood, Thomas Dambo’s Giants of Mandurah are towering tributes to sustainability, adventure and imagination

May 2022

  • Desmond Taylor and Muuki Taylor with the Kintyre artwork, 2021. Photograph by Duncan Wright.

    ‘This is a protest painting’: Aboriginal artists speak out in show backed by mining giants

    In a landmark exhibition supported by the resources sector, Indigenous artists from the Pilbara don’t hold back about dispossession and exploitation

February 2022

  • Panawathi Girl

    Panawathi Girl review - hippies, pollies and cowboys converge in Perth’s joyous new musical

    Written by David Milroy, Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company’s ‘big Black musical’ is a deceptively jolly take on Australia’s dark past
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