NICK Carter, now an accomplished young conductor, can still remember when he caught the music bug.

MUSIC: Tokyo Jazz Festival 2010. Tokyo International Forum, September 3-5.

MUSICA Viva's 2011 program features an impressive mixture of music.

DANCE: Sutra. Choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Sadler's Wells. Playhouse Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, September 8.

PHOTOS of Judy Davis and Catherine Deneuve, on show for the first time, line up with those from the set of Michael Jackson's Thriller video.

BIG hART injects humour into its novel take on the story of Albert Namatjira.

TONY Blair's account of meeting the Queen matches the fictional version of the event in the movie The Queen, says the scriptwriter.

ORGANISERS of Spotlight on Australia have announced the line-up for the day-long promotion of our TV and media industry at the global MIPCOM show.

THE life of the late US President Ronald Reagan will be made into a feature film to be released next year, based on two biographies.

BURLESQUE is the new black in Sydney this week for the Fringe Festival.

CALLS for artists to boycott the iconic Sculptures By The Sea exhibit are being ignored. Why the problem?

One Australian will be in the cast of Saltimbanco, a circus extravaganza returning to Australia.

THE ghost of Port Arthur, hovers silently in one of the artworks in the Primavera 2010 exhibition.

The MCA's entire curatorial staff worked on this massive exhibition - and it's worth it.

ONLY a cynic with a heart of stone could resist the pure, distilled delights of Mary Poppins.

SURELY a few months travelling with a colleague would be enough to test any working relationship.

THE standing ovation at the end of Steppenwolf's August: Osage County tells you everything.

ONOMATOPOEIA might sound like something you would vaccinate against but it's actually a fun technique.