FBi's Canvas

Pip Smith reviews Optimism by Tom Wright and Michael Kantor playing until Feb 20th 2010

Pip Smith reviews Giselle by Fabulous Beast playing at Carriageworks as part of the 2010 Sydney Festival.

Pip Smith reviews Oedipus Loves You by Pan Pan theatre playing at the Seymour Centre as part of the 2010 Sydney Festival.

Pip Smith reviews Shaun Parker and Company's Happy As Larry playing at Riverside and the Seymour Centre as part of the Sydney Festival.

We're bringing the beauty of Broome onto Canvas this week as Matt Levinson catches up with Bran Nue Dae director Rachel Perkins to wonder why an upbeat indigenous musical is still so groundbreaking - twenty years after Jimmy Chi's version caused such a splash.He'll then creep through the shadows of Sydney's 1970s underground art scene with photographer Greg Weight - an original member of Darlinghurst's infamous Yellow House. Weight's also been involved in a new show called Gula Gama-Li, for which 6 contemporary artists collaborated with 6 indigenous artists to create works about family and landscape. From the desert to disco floor (and back again), that's Canvas, Sunday from 10am.

Pip Smith reviews Urban Theatre Project's The Fence, programmed as part of the 2010 Sydney Festival. This review is slightly longer than the one played on air.

Pip smith reviews The Arrival by Red Leap Theatre, based on the book by Shaun Tan, playing at Carriageworks until Sunday 17th of Jan for the Sydney Festival.

Pip Smith reviews Belvoir St Theatre's The book of Everything, directed by Neil Armfield.

Claudia O'Doherty 10.55 Interview w/ Lisa Havilah 11.25 In stusio Review w/Pip Smith - Top Mum 11.35 Interview w/ Mark Dapin

This Sunday Matt Levinson will be joined by Trent Jansen, a Sydney-based industrial designer with an appetite for non-consumerist culture and eco-friendly design.

The future is now: or rather, it's on Canvas this Sunday. First up Matt Levinson takes a flight of fancy with writer Margo Lanagan and writer cum independent publisher, Keith Stevenson, exploring the wild outer reaches of speculative fiction. Then Andrew Vande Moere, creator of infosthetics.com , is coming in to explain why data (yes, data) can be prettier than a hipster. That's Canvas, Sunday from 10am.

Pip smith reviews Shining City by Conor McPherson at The Stables Theatre in Kings Cross.

Pip Smith's review of Daniel Kitson's latest show - 66A Church Rd. Playing at the Opera House until Dec 13.

Take a ride from underground Sydney's original squatspace The Gunnery to politically charged graffiti and film when artist Raquel Ormella joins Matt Levinson on Canvas. He'll also be picking the brains of Greg Girling, a member of the SMAC Awards Best Collective nominee Interesting South, whose fascinating ideas sessions consistently sell out weeks in advance.