David Kary completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts (BCA) at Wollongong University between 1990 and 1992 majoring in Arts Journalism and Theatre Studies. Ever since 1992 he has been writing about the arts scene in Sydney in various publications.
He has managed Sydney Arts Guide since 2004.
Unlike most TV to stage adaptations, KEEPING UP APPEARANCES is not a stage version of episodes we have seen on the box, but a made for stage script, set at the local dramatic society, merging characters familiar from the series, …
I knew Jonathon Blain, the subject of Veronica Nadine Gleeson’s play.
He was a regular visitor to a house I lived in in Adelaide many years ago.
I remember his lovely smile and his soft nature.
Jonathon sold me …
Elaine Paton’s THROUGH THE CRACKS is a theatrical crime-style investigation that dives deep into issues of ageing, identity and homelessness, as Inspector Tilly leads an enquiry into the true-life disappearance of her alter ego, Elaine.
The audience enters the Incident …
Inspired by one of the most beloved British family films of all time, THE RAILWAY CHILDREN RETURN is an enchanting, moving, and heart-warming adventure for a new generation.
1944 – As life in Britain’s cities becomes increasingly perilous, three evacuee …
Coming to the Opera House after seasons at Edinburgh International Festival and London’s Southbank Centre, acclaimed actor, writer, daughter and person with Down syndrome Julia Hales (ABC TV’s The Upside) brings the joyous play YOU KNOW WE BELONG
Flipper and Finnegan live on a beautiful island.
Every morning they hunt for fish in the clear blue ocean waters.
Every evening they waddle up the beach, together with all their friends – it’s a penguin parade!
But one day …
THE BOOK OF EVERYTHING has had a long journey to make it the stage where it received a mainstream production by legendary director Neil Armfield at the Belvoir Street Theatre in 2010.
Shortly after World War 2 a Dutch boy …
British playwright Nick Payne’s 2012 play CONSTELLATIONS follows Roland, a beekeeper, and Marianne, a cosmologist, through their romantic relationship.
Both characters spend a lot of time talking about their work; at one point Roland talks about the sex life …
Written to celebrate the 450th anniversary of one of choral music’s most iconic works, Thomas Tallis’s 40 Part motet, Spem in alium, Sir James MacMillan was commissioned to write a modern reflection to Spem
in alium. The piece has been …
American playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s play Chimerica (an amalgam of China and America) pivots around an atrocious episode in human history, the Tiananmen Square massacre, when the Chinese Government military gunned down hundreds of students protesting against the lack of democracy …