Sonia Nair

Sonia Nair has been a member of Linktree for 3 years and joined in November 2022. Resources sonianair has populated their site with include: • INTERVIEW: Mirandi Riwoe — LIMINAL • FOOD AND DRINK: This bold new rooftop bar is slinging punchy Filipino-inspired cocktails and snacks ★★★★ • FILM: Exploitation of food delivery workers laid bare in new film set in Paris • FILM: Rooney Mara stars in new kitchen drama film reminiscent of The Bear • THEATRE: Melbourne review wrap: David Byrne at Sidney Myer Music Bowl; Burgerz at Malthouse Theatre, Storytime Ballet: The Nutcracker at Comedy Theatre, Australian Open at Theatre Works, Circa’s Duck Pond at Princess Theatre; The Last Dinner Party • THEATRE: Melbourne review wrap: The Placeholder at fortyfivedownstairs; • THEATRE: Review roundup feat. I Thought You Said • THEATRE: Melbourne review wrap: The Streets at St Kilda Foreshore; Back to Te Maunga at La Mama; Jean-Yves Thibaudet with the MSO; The Diary of Anne Frank at the Athenaum; • THEATRE: Melbourne review wrap: West Gate by Melbourne Theatre Company; Anna Lapwood at Melbourne Recital Centre; The Devil’s Violin by Australian Chamber Orchestra and Ilya Gringolts • THEATRE: Melbourne review wrap: Eighteen Lives at Theatre Works Explosives Factory; Beyond the Neck at Theatre Works; West Gate by Melbourne Theatre Company; Pool and That Day, This Body, That Time at Dancehouse; Big Jazz Day Out at MPAC; Anna Lapwood at • THEATRE: Melbourne review wrap: Spare a Thought for Jana Wendt at La Mama; • THEATRE: Melbourne reviews: Waitress at the Princess Theatre; Ball Park Music at Northcote Social Club; Game. Set. Match at the Malthouse; TISM at Port Melbourne Industrial Centre for the Arts; and The Glass Menagerie at MTC • THEATRE: Melbourne review wrap: Five at Rod Laver Arena; Kooza by Cirque du Soleil; Retrograde at MTC; Schubert’s Fantasy and Octet by ACO; • THEATRE: Melbourne review wrap:1154 Days by Cheng Lei at Arts House; The Others at Melbourne Recital Centre; • FILM: From sheep mysteries to housing crisis horror, here's what's in cinemas this month - ABC News • THEATRE: Melbourne review wrap: Copland Dance Episodes at Regent Theatre; In Shadows at Darebin Arts Speakeasy; Sheltering by Bangarra at Arts Centre Melbourne; Great Romantic Voices by Australian Chamber Choir; House of Rot at Malthouse Theatre; Stella: • THEATRE: Melbourne review wrap: Grey Gardens at fortyfivedownstairs; Keys to Life by Jayson Gillham and Iyad Sughayer; Oehlers / Grabowsky / Svoboda / Beck at The Jazzlab; Pretty Woman the Musical at Regent Theatre; Rabbit & Watson by Darebin Arts Speakea • THEATRE: Melbourne review wrap: Funeral Flowers at Red Stitch; MTC Uncle Vanya at Arts Centre Melbourne; Silversun Pickups at Forum Melbourne; ACO From Winter’s Stillness • THEATRE: Melbourne review wrap: Health at Forum Melbourne; Spamalot at the Athenaeum; Luke at Red Stitch; The Homecoming at the Athenaeum; Kristian Bezuidenhout performs Handel and Bach with the MSO; • THEATRE: Lord of the Flies at Theatre Works • BLOG: Whatever Floats Your Bloat • THEATRE: Melbourne live reviews: Sugar at Arts Centre Melbourne; Yungblud at Sidney Myer Music Bowl; Ten Thousand Hours at Arts Centre Melbourne; Travis at Festival Hall; Blackpill Redux at Theatre Works; Peninsula Summer Music Festival 2026; Saturday Nig • THEATRE: Melbourne live reviews: Anastasia musical can’t break free from trappings of history • THEATRE: Melbourne review wrap: Colour and Light: The Art of Sondheim at Theatre Works; Playlunch at 170 Russell; Frenzal Rhomb at The Tote; MJ the Musical at Her Majesty’s Theatre; Job at Red Stitch; LeAnn Rimes at Margaret Court Arena • THEATRE: Melbourne review wrap: Kimberly Akimbo by MTC at Arts Centre Melbourne; Moonlite by Homophonic! and The Consort of Melbourne; Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird at the Corner Hotel; Coriolanus by Bell Shakespeare; Blood Wedding at Theatre Works; • THEATRE: Melbourne review wrap: What’s Yours by Red Stitch; Troy Roberts Quartet at JazzLab; Miss Julie at fortyfivedownstairs • TV: Sex, scandals and synchronised swimming: Olympo takes us behind the scenes • THEATRE: George Orwell intended 1984 to be a satire, but this play shows it’s close to the truth • FILM: Fréwaka is the new Irish folk horror film. And it's full of surprises - ABC News • TV: The Sex and the City spin-off keeps getting better and better • THEATRE: The play that offers up a pessimistic yet compassionate snapshot of life as a Millennial • THEATRE: This show breaks some of my biggest rules for theatre. Here’s why it still works • THEATRE: Hobbits in the aisles: The Lord of the Rings musical is a valiant effort • FILM: Bob Trevino Likes It, starring Barbie Ferreira, is a devastating drama about unexpected connections - ABC News • FILM: In Vitro — starring Ashley Zukerman — is a gripping ecological thriller made by an Australian filmmaking couple - ABC News • THEATRE: Set around a drinking game, this play pushes friendship to its limit • FILM: Holland, the eerie new film starring Nicole Kidman, takes place in a real-life, fake-Dutch town in Michigan, US - ABC News • EVENT: Ask a Literary Programmer with Sonia Nair • FILM: The Last Journey sees a Swedish TV personality take his father on a reinvigorating road trip - ABC News • FILM: The Monkey, directed by Osgood Perkins, is adapted from a 1980 Stephen King short story - ABC News • FILM: The Seed of the Sacred Fig was directed from afar by Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof - ABC News • FILM: Nicole Kidman is a tour de force as a woman having a sexual awakening in Babygirl - ABC News • BOOK: Faith in a time of apocalypse • FILM: Emilia Pérez is a star-studded Oscars favourite, but it has become mired in controversy and criticism - ABC News • FILM: Conclave takes us behind the Vatican's cloistered walls with stunning visuals, sacrilegious humour and the election of a pope - ABC News • FILM: We Live in Time, starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, is a rom-com trying to avoid schmaltz - ABC News • TV: Say Nothing tells the dark true story of two young sisters and the lengths they went to for the IRA - ABC News • FILM: Venice Prize-winning film Green Border is a heartbreaking dramatisation of the very real refugee crisis on the Belarus-Poland border - ABC News • FILM: My Favourite Cake is a moving film about later-in-life love, set in the brutal repression of Iran - ABC News • FOOD: We reviewed the elegant new cornerside restaurant in Fitzroy: Carnation Canteen • FILM: Wicked Part 1 is finally here, with the chemistry between Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo stealing the show • FOOD: This quiet achiever on Lygon St is serving up the best pan-Asian food around ★★★★★ • FILM: Memory, starring Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, is a tender film about love, family and forgetting - ABC News • FOOD: Sky-high fine diner Atria is one of Melbourne's most thrilling experiences ★★★★ • THEATRE: Gangsters and toy koalas: This unknotting of a sibling relationship is oddly affecting • FILM: The story of The Last of the Sea Women almost went untold — until director Sue Kim met Malala Yousafzai - ABC News • FILM: Daughters review: Netflix documentary reunites girls with their incarcerated fathers - ABC News • FILM: Subservience, starring Megan Fox, shows Hollywood's preoccupation with the threat of AI isn't going anywhere - ABC News • BOOKS: Lineages and Legacies • THEATRE: The takedown of toxic masculinity that you must not miss • FOOD: Is Ras Dashen still one of Melbourne's greatest African restaurants? We find out • FOOD: Maggie's Snacks and Liquor is a cosy neighbourhood bar bringing Kiwi flavours to Melbourne ★★★★ • FOOD: Here's why everyone's talking about Wazzup Falafel ★★★★★