Imagine standing, not on the edge of the Grand Canyon but actually above it, gazing down between your feet to the canyon floor 1200 metres below.

IT'S an unlikely recipe for box office success in the United States: a Chinese-language film with actors unknown to most American movie goers.

Bell Shakespeare's year ends with deserved fanfare, writes Colin Rose. Henry 5 Playhouse Theater, SOH GOD bless John Hinde, the genial host of ABC TV's late night movie slot, who recently stole a march on the Bell Shakespeare Company by screening Laurence Olivier's film version of Henry..read more

AUSTRALIAN writer Hilary Bell (whose Wolf Lullaby just finished a Melbourne season) has landed a prized spot in the American dramatic world. She is one of 15 playwrights to have a work selected for inclusion at this year's National Playwrights' Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Centre in Wate