Taking Liberty News Today

'Wolves are Coming' for you was an adult fable about a town under threat.

Based on Patricia Cornelius' semi-autobiographical book of the same name, My Sister Jill is the latest endeavour from the powerhouse partnership of Cornelius and director Susie Dee.

Taking Liberty is a celebration of Australia's 1983 America’s Cup sailing win.

Just like Australia II, they come from a land down under. Poles apart in their individual fields but all national icons of Fremantle — and this week proudly adorned in green and gold like the best of them.

It’s been 40 years since Australia snatched the America’s Cup, but for the water-logged warriors who stuck it up the New York Yacht Club toffs, the events are so vivid it could have been yesterday.

Tony Award winner Bryan Cranston (Network, All The Way, AMC's “Breaking Bad”) and Tony nominee Geneva Carr (Hand To God, CBS' “Bull”) will play John and Abigail Adams, respectively, in Taking Liberty, a new play written by Georgette Reilly Timoney.

The latest Perth city life news, articles and analysis from The Sydney Morning Herald

Daring pilot Bessie Coleman, who found a kind of second home in Orlando, died much too young but left a legacy of inspiration.

(University of Chicago Press, 2020), vi + 285 pgs. They are called the greatest generation. They came of age during the Great Depression and went to fight the Nazis and the Japs in World War II. They were the greatest generation, but it is not just fighting that they were great at. Just after the D-Day anniversary in 2019, I reviewed another University of Chicago Press book titled What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France, by Mary Louise Roberts. That book proved and me...