Things to do in Sydney today

It was pure joy when Sydneysiders got to see the beautiful colours of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint’s beautiful abstracts light up the Art Gallery of New South Wales this winter. And then a total bummer when they had to close the doors of Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings less than a month later. The good news is, it’s back on, only this time you can visit without leaving the house, and it’s totally free. They’ve whipped up a snazzy YouTube video walkthrough to ensure that the gorgeous exhibition reaches even further than before while keeping us all safe and happy.   The major survey of af Klint’s pioneering work recognises a game-changing talent who drew on popular spiritualist practices to create large-scale works of a kind that hadn’t been seen before. She believed that her paintings contained messages for humanity, communicated to her through visions, and founded a spiritual group named The Five with four like-minded women who explored esoteric texts and conducted séances. Born in Stockholm in 1862, she was way before her time, and never received the credit she so clearly deserved before dying in a tragic accident at 82, in the autumn of 1944. That's partly because she left a note asking for them to be concealed for at least 20 years. She is behind more than 1300 works which were hidden away in storage for decades until their rediscovery caused a sensation, leading to a 2019 exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum that smashed the New York institution’s attendance records.

While the doors of the Art Gallery of NSW remain shut for the time being, the good news is you can still check out Peter Wegner’s Archibald Prize-winning ‘Portrait of Guy Warren at 100’ from the safety of your sofa. That’s because the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize exhibitions have been given the digital treatment, with a swish 360-degree immersive experience you can check out online here. It’s heaps of fun to explore, with the self-guided tour flagging loads of interesting facts along the way as you click on the works to read their labels. Look out for Yolŋu painter and printmaker Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu, her silvery depiction of the Seven Sisters star clusters, also known as the Pleiades, titled ‘Garak – night sky’ was the Wynne Prize-winner. Also, look out for Sulman Prize-winner Georgia Spain’s stunning work ‘Getting down or falling up’. We also love German-born, Sydney-based artist Kathrin Longhurst’s stunning, unguarded portrait of singer-songwriter Kate Ceberano, which took home the 30th Archibald Packing Room Prize. Once you’ve had a virtual wander you can vote on your faves for the People’s Choice Award and go in the mix for your own reward. Check out the AGNSW website for more details. Need more culture in your life? Check out these digital events here.

Do you love the cut and thrust of MasterChef a little too much? Do you scream at the TV screen, urging your favourite contestant to kill it? Is your snarling fervour just a wee bit more than might be deemed healthy? Like, bloodthirsty Hunger Games too much? If your answer is yeah, well, have we got the show for you. Parramatta-based Blush Opera took the brutality of reality TV to the next level with their wicked fun show Chop Chef earlier this year. Slicing and dicing the fates of six wannabes locked in a battle to the death over creating the best dish, this wickedly sharp satire of the mores and frankly too muches of cooking shows is opera, but not as you know it. Add a delirious dash of musical theatre and a pinch of viciously dark comedy and the recipe is a winner. Sure, some bodies are gonna be DOA by the end of the show – that’s nothing new for the operatic form – but they won’t be daintily fading away. Only one fierce competitor will be left standing, and no dirty trick is too hot for these kitchen rules. Created by Blush co-artistic directors Jermaine Chau and Paul Smith (Fancy Me Dead) and music director Luke Spicer, Chop Chef will cut a bloody swathe through Riverside Theatres. It's directed by Nicole Pingon and Kenneth Moraleda, with the knives out cast of Ayako Ohtake, Lisa Cooper, Jermaine Chau, Gavin Brown, Benjamin Caulkwell and Nick Geddes. Recorded live, it's been heated up in the microwave for an online watch party you can stream from home on Friday, July 16

Sydney may be settling in for another prolonged period at home, but just as they did in 2020, entertainers of every kind are pivoting their talents into the digital space. In lieu of IRL musical festivals and gigs, last lockdown we welcomed a swathe of live streams featuring everything from garage band setups to the home studios of big-name musicians. So it's no surprise that the most successful online gig platforms are once again coming to a screen near you, and some are even upping the ante for lockdown 2.0. After debuting in March last year as a livestreamed two-day event, Isol-Aid is back and bigger than ever before. Partnering with 99designs by Vistaprint, Isol-Aid presents Homegrown, a 16-week program where emerging acts from across Australia and New Zealand are invited to perform alongside established artists. Streaming live on TikTok and isolaidfestival.com every two weeks, the gigs kick off on Wednesday, July 14 from 6-7.30pm. The first line-up features soulful Indigenous singer-songwriter Emily Warramurra; sister duo, Charm of Finches, who specialise in “haunted folk tunes about love, grief and whispering trees with tight sibling harmonies”; and crooner Lakyn, known best for his spell on The Voice Australia. Fans and bands can nominate their favourite Aussie and Kiwi acts (or themselves) to be a part of Isol-Aid Homegrown via 99designs.com/homegrown. One act will be selected by a panel of judges to receive a $10,000 grant to boost their career and creative growth,

The inaugural run of the critically acclaimed Caldera Festival was dubbed “Sydney’s answer to Dark Mofo”, way back in 2018. Plans for a biannual return were scuppered last year, for obvious reasons. But that enforced benching got artistic director Laurence Rosier Staines thinking about how to deliver an online version that would stay true to the spirit of the live experience. Caldera 360º is the result, and it’s arrived just in time for our current snap lockdown. The immersive platform hosts five 360º digital artworks and performances, all scattered across a surreal landscape. From the outset, it asks you, the visitor, the question, “Caldera 360º is a website… or is it a game?” The digital playground, designed by Martin Baker and featuring a soundscape by Sydney composer Clemence Williams, actively encourages the audience to explore the environment. The space is just as intriguing as the first round of discoverable works, all commissioned by Rosier Staines. “360-degree viewing is fascinating, because we have the wherewithal now for it to be widespread and accessible, but almost no one has been thinking about or making art experiences to take advantage of the immersive nature of the experience,” he says. Each of the works was created by an artist affected by last year’s shutdowns. Internationally acclaimed artist Meng-Yu Yan’s work ‘Black Butterfly’ is inspired by Chinese shadow puppetry, mythology and memory. You can also check out a ghostly music video by Marcus Whale, Athen

Every year since 2017, the Sydney Opera House’s gleaming sails have been transformed by light and sound into a celebration of the lore and artistry of First Nations people. During Badu Gili – which means ‘water light’ in Gadigal language – mesmerising projections undulate on the world-famous canvas, showcasing the work of Indigenous artists.  This year’s theme is 'Wonder Women'. Overseen by Coby Edgar, the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, the dazzling array showcases the work and stories of six female First Nations artists, Marlene Gilson, Kaylene Whiskey, Sally Mulda, Judith Inkamala, Marlene Rubuntja and the late Aunty Elaine Russell. The traditional owners of Bennelong Point, the site of the Opera House, know it as Tubowgule, or ‘where the knowledge waters meet’. The glimmering spot has been a gathering place for community, ceremony and storytelling for thousands of years, long before the harbourside icon was erected. You’ll be able to watch the mesmerising, six-minute long animated light show daily from April 23 until the end of the year, kicking off at sunset, or around about 5.30pm, but check the Opera House website for more details. It’s funded by the NSW Government through the Culture Up Late initiative. Want more First Nations art? Check out Hayley Millar Baker's There We Were All in One Place.

Embracing these hybrid times when we’re often online more than we’re out and about, the Art Gallery of New South Wales has launched the mother of all digital galleries, and it’s a kaleidoscopic trip to creative wonderland. Part of their ongoing Together in Art series, Hyper-linked assembles seven exciting contemporary Australian artists pushing the envelope on how we engage with art from wherever we are in the world. Heath Franco’s 'Home Videohome' is a trippy, dystopian stare into the abyss of the interwebs through the search portals of doom. You'll very likely recognise one in particular, but to avoid any nasty lawsuit, it's been rebranded as Newspider. Get caught up in this web full of unnerving animalistic figures and ‘90s-style pop video imagery gone awry. It’s wrong-town in all the right ways. Justene Williams’ explosively colourful video 'The Unboxers' opens with shades of apocalyptic wrestling matches and a montage with a glimpse of a superhero-like character who resembles someone who rhymes with Maptain Carvel (prob don’t want Disney legalling this either). With creatures that look like sun-melted lollies and a bizarre egg experiment, it’s loopy goodness inspired by the unfurling of the legendary Bob Fosse's jazz hands. JD Reforma’s dreamy drone imagery in ‘I Want to Believe’ captures stolen glances of the world as seen from Sydney’s rooftops, with the traffic drifting by oblivious below. Exploring the idea of escape from abusive relationships, what at first seems li

UPDATE, June 28: As of June 26, the Greater Sydney region including the Central Coast, the Blue Mountains and Wollongong is under a compulsory two-week lockdown until 11.59pm on July 9. Many events in Sydney have therefore been cancelled or postponed until after this period. Take a look at pictures of placards held aloft during Australia’s Black Lives Matter marches and you’ll see that even in the midst of tragedy, there’s a fierce sense of dark comedy at play too. And even empowered joy. We all need a bit more of the latter in our lives this year. Thankfully the Art Gallery of NSW has you covered. Opening on October 24 and running to sometime in 2021, new exhibition Joy gathers fun art from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives from across the Central Desert. Collecting everything from Queenie Kemarre’s cute bird statues carved in wood and painted in brilliant pink hues, to Judith Inkamala terracotta magpie adorned pots, and films too, it’s a celebration of the brighter side of life. As the AGNSW sees it, although it’s important to tell the stories of history and people that are uncomfortable, in need of critical dialogue or deeply embedded in culture and its practices, sharing joy is just as necessary, and we often forget to make space for that in our appraisal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. Want more NAIDOC Week suggestions? Read our top tips here. 

UPDATE, June 28: As of June 26, the Greater Sydney region including the Central Coast, the Blue Mountains and Wollongong is under a compulsory two-week lockdown until 11.59pm on July 9. Many events in Sydney have therefore been cancelled or postponed until after this period. The Australian Museum will celebrate First Nations culture in astounding new show Unsettled. Looking back on this country's untold history, the free exhibition reiterates that this land was never ceded. It interrogates the lasting impacts of colonisation and the denial of Indigenous sovereignty. Contemporary First Nations artists including Charlotte Allingham (Coffin Birth), Ryan Presley, Tony Albert, Jai Darby Walker and Danie Mellor reveal the hidden stories of devastation, survival, resilience and the fight for recognition. Their first-hand accounts are presented through long-hidden historical documents, large-scale artworks, immersive experiences and never-before-seen objects from the Australian Museum collections and beyond. Elders including Uncle Waubin Richard Aken (Kaurareg), Aunty Fay Moseley (Wiradjuri) and Uncle Noel Butler (Budawang) share their lived experiences, and the exhibition presents almost 200 artefacts and significant cultural objects, including new digital works. Among the historical documents on show is a copy of sealed secret orders instructing Captain Cook to find the fabled Great Southern Continent on what was meant to be an expedition to observe the Transit of Venus in Tahiti i

UPDATE, June 28: As of June 26, the Greater Sydney region including the Central Coast, the Blue Mountains and Wollongong is under a compulsory two-week lockdown until 11.59pm on July 9. Many events in Sydney have therefore been cancelled or postponed until after this period. The Powerhouse Museum will mark Nowrouz – that's Persian New Year if you didn't know – on March 19 with a new exhibition, Iranzamin. It’s the museum’s first dedicated survey of their Persian arts and crafts collection, presenting more than 100 rarely seen gems. The show explores the rich social and cultural history of Persian society, known today as Iran, with a distinct focus on the Qajar era, spanning 1789-1925. The exhibition is divided into seven themes: Joy and Happiness, Purification and Cleansing, Spirituality and Devotion, Poetry and Calligraphy, Rituals and Performance, Patronage and Craftsmanship, and finally Nature and Design. Iranzamin encompasses everything from hand-woven carpets and rugs, to armour and weaponry, to beautiful blown glass pieces, ceramics, tiles and embroidery. Persia straddled two main trade routes in the Indian Ocean and the Silk Road, so many of its cultural traditions spread far and wide. Iranzamin also acknowledges the wide-reaching influence of this artistic diaspora, including the works of Australian painter and textile designer Florence Broadhurst. Curator Pedram Khosronejad says, “Persia has a long tradition of arts and crafts stretching back more than a millennium,

UPDATE, June 28: As of June 26, the Greater Sydney region including the Central Coast, the Blue Mountains and Wollongong is under a compulsory two-week lockdown until 11.59pm on July 9. Many events in Sydney have therefore been cancelled or postponed until after this period. From the moment you set foot in the Art Gallery of New South Wales outpost (AGNSW) of this year's spectacular Australian art biennial The National, your eye is immediately drawn down into the belly of this beast of a show, curated by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art specialist Erin Vink and Asian art expert Matt Cox. Melbourne-based artists Wona Bee and Charlie Lawler draw you in with their haunting work ‘Regenerator’, a suspended row of seven charcoal circles that conjure up the ghostly trace of the bushfire season’s aftermath, but also hint at new life caught in endless circulation. This powerful piece hands over to Judy Watson’s sky-blue tapestries ‘clouds and undercurrents’ hanging over the escalators. A powerful way to reclaim the atrium’s open space, they create a beautiful focal point glimpsed from many spots below. Two astounding installations take up space in the very best way in the AGNSW exhibition. Justin Shoulder’s glorious inflatable installation ‘Aeon+: Titan Arum’ depicts a primordial soup-like scenario where inflatable creatures flail as if emerging from their mother’s womb, all bathed in fluctuating pink and purple hues. It’s mesmeric, and if you’re lucky enough, you’ll catch on

UPDATE, June 28: As of June 26, the Greater Sydney region including the Central Coast, the Blue Mountains and Wollongong is under a compulsory two-week lockdown until 11.59pm on July 9. Many events in Sydney have therefore been cancelled or postponed until after this period. There are outstanding riches of colour on offer in the marvellous MCA outing for biennial contemporary art show The National. It’s a veritable cornucopia of creative excellence well worth whiling away a few hours in, especially as Sydney eases into the cooler months. Even when the work is black and white – like Caroline Rothwell’s mesmerically swirling digital animation ‘Carbon Emission 5, Constructivist Rococo’ – it is vibrantly so. APY Lands artist Betty Kuntiwa Pumani’s beautiful large-scale works on linen are a riot of reds and blues that thrum with desert life. Deborah Kelly’s dazzling video installation and accompanying portraits are whirlwind of human hybrid forms twirling for glory that will put you into a blissed-out trance. There’s a deep blue dingo stalking Pakistan-born, Sydney-based multi-disciplinary artist Mehwish Iqbal’s gorgeous tapestry work ‘Assemblage of the Fragmented Landscape’ and Maree Clarke’s stunning photography of topless men wearing traditional jewellery. Judith Wright’s stunning hanging portraits daubed on Japanese rice paper, and Lauren Berkowitz’ bright plastic pendants are also wow-making. Everywhere you look there’s something majestic, and nowhere more so than as you walk

UPDATE, June 28: As of June 26, the Greater Sydney region including the Central Coast, the Blue Mountains and Wollongong is under a compulsory two-week lockdown until 11.59pm on July 9. Many events in Sydney have therefore been cancelled or postponed until after this period. Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman and Gurang Gurang man Richard Bell is one of Australia’s most impactful contemporary artists and dedicated activists, a force for First Nations rights forged under the under the oppressive Bjelke-Petersen regime in Queensland, and then in Redfern. His illustrious 30-year career to date will be celebrated by expansive new exhibition You Can Go Now, hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) with whom he has enjoyed an ongoing relationship. Running from June 4 to August 29, it will showcase his incendiary political artworks that use mighty satirical humour to eviscerate reductionist views of First Nations art within a post-colonial history and framework. It’s been overseen by MCA senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collections and exhibitions Clothilde Bullen, and draws together nearly 40 artworks created across a range of mediums including painting, installation and video works. A recreation of the original Aboriginal Tent Embassy set up on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra in 1972, ‘Bell’s Embassy’, is one of the exhibition’s centrepieces, providing a public space for retelling stories of oppression and displacement while imagining a new wa

Sydneysiders have seen the contours of the Opera House sails a thousand times. They're a truly iconic strand of the city's DNA, but as familiar as the building's exterior is, plenty of spaces within the architectural marvel remain hidden. Like winning a golden ticket, Nooks and Crannies unlocks these secret spaces. In a series of intimate gigs, musicians are placed in lesser-known spots within the Opera House and respond accordingly, with their music. Featuring indie music big hitters of the calibre of Courtney Barnett, Camp Cope and The National, you can binge all this gold on the Opera House's Stream platform. Think of it like a special edition of Rage with site-specific music videos filmed in hidden corners of a famous Sydney landmark.  The first volume features Swedish guitar whisperer José González and Melbourne future-soul quartet Hiatus Kaiyote. Round two features hypnotic soul-folk artist Moses Sumney in the orchestra pit of the Joan Sutherland Theatre, playing his enchanting hit ‘Don't Bother Calling’. Next singer-songwriter and producer Kelsey Lu plays a stripped back, minimal version of her pulsating, Jamie xx co-produced track ‘Foreign Car’ under the laser lights of the Studio in the belly of the Opera House. US cult rockers The National play 'Hard To Find' from their Grammy Award winning album, Sleep Well Beast, under the Opera House sails in the Utzon Room. Melbourne trio Camp Cope bring forth their scathing critique of indie rock’s virtue signalling issues with

UPDATE, June 28: As of June 26, the Greater Sydney region including the Central Coast, the Blue Mountains and Wollongong is under a compulsory two-week lockdown until 11.59pm on July 9. Many events in Sydney have therefore been cancelled or postponed until after this period. You know you’ve left an indelible mark on the cultural fabric of Australia when they build a hotel in your honour that not only wears your name, but is also hung chock-full of your unforgettable works. Great evocative painter John Olsen is one of that number, picked out by the Art Series hotels down in Melbourne. But you don’t need to leave Sydney to celebrate the achievements of the magnificent Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize-winning artist. The National Art School (NAS) Gallery presents a retrospective of one of their most renowned graduates in John Olsen: Goya’s Dog, showing from June 11 to August 7. It traces his creative awakening under the baking Spanish sun, through his darkest hours and on to the peace and prosperity that lay beyond for this larrikin voice of the Australian landscape scene. It was while on a return visit to Spain in 1985, in Madrid’s Museo del Prado, that Olsen fell under the spell of ‘The Drowning Dog’, one of Francisco Goya’s pinturas negras (black paintings). He noted in his journal at the time,  “Goya’s dog – the disquieting animal head, peeping from the earth – dog and earth become interchangeable – dark and solemn, locked in itself, probing the sky like a primitive radar –

It was pure joy when Sydneysiders got to see the beautiful colours of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint’s beautiful abstracts light up the Art Gallery of New South Wales this winter. And then a total bummer when they had to close the doors of Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings less than a month later. The good news is, it’s back on, only this time you can visit without leaving the house, and it’s totally free. They’ve whipped up a snazzy YouTube video walkthrough to ensure that the gorgeous exhibition reaches even further than before while keeping us all safe and happy.   The major survey of af Klint’s pioneering work recognises a game-changing talent who drew on popular spiritualist practices to create large-scale works of a kind that hadn’t been seen before. She believed that her paintings contained messages for humanity, communicated to her through visions, and founded a spiritual group named The Five with four like-minded women who explored esoteric texts and conducted séances. Born in Stockholm in 1862, she was way before her time, and never received the credit she so clearly deserved before dying in a tragic accident at 82, in the autumn of 1944. That's partly because she left a note asking for them to be concealed for at least 20 years. She is behind more than 1300 works which were hidden away in storage for decades until their rediscovery caused a sensation, leading to a 2019 exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum that smashed the New York institution’s attendance records.

While the doors of the Art Gallery of NSW remain shut for the time being, the good news is you can still check out Peter Wegner’s Archibald Prize-winning ‘Portrait of Guy Warren at 100’ from the safety of your sofa. That’s because the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize exhibitions have been given the digital treatment, with a swish 360-degree immersive experience you can check out online here. It’s heaps of fun to explore, with the self-guided tour flagging loads of interesting facts along the way as you click on the works to read their labels. Look out for Yolŋu painter and printmaker Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu, her silvery depiction of the Seven Sisters star clusters, also known as the Pleiades, titled ‘Garak – night sky’ was the Wynne Prize-winner. Also, look out for Sulman Prize-winner Georgia Spain’s stunning work ‘Getting down or falling up’. We also love German-born, Sydney-based artist Kathrin Longhurst’s stunning, unguarded portrait of singer-songwriter Kate Ceberano, which took home the 30th Archibald Packing Room Prize. Once you’ve had a virtual wander you can vote on your faves for the People’s Choice Award and go in the mix for your own reward. Check out the AGNSW website for more details. Need more culture in your life? Check out these digital events here.

Movie lovers are spoiled in Sydney right now. The tenth anniversary of the Iranian Film Festival may have wrapped up in-cinema, but you'll be able to kick on, with the program heading online July 15-30. The country has become a hotbed for excellent cinema, despite the onerous obstructions placed in front of filmmakers. It has fielded masterpieces from the likes of Abbas Kiarostami (Palme d’Or-winner Taste of Cherry) and Asghar Farhadi (Oscar-winner A Separation). This year’s crop includes proud feminist writer/director Ida Panahandeh’s mind-bending TiTi. It features Elnaz Shakerdoost as a hospital worker with supernatural powers, who performs an arcane ritual to save an esteemed physicist working on black hole theory and a prediction about the end of the world. Oh, and she’s also acting as a surrogate mother for an infertile couple in order to serve humanity. Natch. It premiered at this year’s Tokyo Film Festival to rave reviews, and we are so hooked in. Elsewhere in the Iranian Film Festival, superstar Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi’s movie Sun Children introduces us to a group of canny 12 year olds working odd jobs and small-time crime to support their families. Though it didn’t make the final noms, it was Iran’s official Oscar hope this year. The Wasteland by Ahmad Bahrami tells a story about a community that's centred on a traditional brick-making factory in a remote corner of the country. It won the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film at the 2020 Venice Film Festival. Prolific

Is Hamilton, the smash-hit American history musical that won a whopping 11 Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize when it debuted on Broadway in 2015 and won the hearts of critics and audiences the world over, as good as everyone says? In a word, yes. If you want to stop reading here and just book your tickets, we’ll understand.  There is a reason it is the most hyped show on Earth, and its writer and first star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, is now a household name. Some 3 million people watched the musical when it appeared on Disney Plus in July 2020, and almost 8 million more have seen it live, in cities across the US and in London’s West End. Now it’s Sydney’s turn, with the only production of the show in the world right now playing at the Lyric Theatre.  With the soundtrack available on Spotify and the original Broadway cast version available to anyone with a Disney Plus account on demand, Hamilton is competing not so much with other musicals for your dollars and attention (there are no other shows of this type that can match the show’s tactical brilliance), but with itself. Most in the audience are at least familiar with the show by this point, and quite a few are able to mouth along to every word behind their masks. If you can see the original Broadway version any time you want and listen to the soundtrack 24 hours a day, what power does the staged version still hold?  In a word, magic. The entire cast is extraordinary, with every dance move sharp as a tack and the constantly shifting

Do you love the cut and thrust of MasterChef a little too much? Do you scream at the TV screen, urging your favourite contestant to kill it? Is your snarling fervour just a wee bit more than might be deemed healthy? Like, bloodthirsty Hunger Games too much? If your answer is yeah, well, have we got the show for you. Parramatta-based Blush Opera took the brutality of reality TV to the next level with their wicked fun show Chop Chef earlier this year. Slicing and dicing the fates of six wannabes locked in a battle to the death over creating the best dish, this wickedly sharp satire of the mores and frankly too muches of cooking shows is opera, but not as you know it. Add a delirious dash of musical theatre and a pinch of viciously dark comedy and the recipe is a winner. Sure, some bodies are gonna be DOA by the end of the show – that’s nothing new for the operatic form – but they won’t be daintily fading away. Only one fierce competitor will be left standing, and no dirty trick is too hot for these kitchen rules. Created by Blush co-artistic directors Jermaine Chau and Paul Smith (Fancy Me Dead) and music director Luke Spicer, Chop Chef will cut a bloody swathe through Riverside Theatres. It's directed by Nicole Pingon and Kenneth Moraleda, with the knives out cast of Ayako Ohtake, Lisa Cooper, Jermaine Chau, Gavin Brown, Benjamin Caulkwell and Nick Geddes. Recorded live, it's been heated up in the microwave for an online watch party you can stream from home on Friday, July 16