Lynn Belvedere

Once we were old enough, my parents took the whole family to the Sydney CBD cinemas every week. Thus began a lifetime interest, in going to the cinema every week, and became a passionate cinephile by watching all those very heavily edited ”Australian Film Censorship Board” true cinéaste versions of brand new release ”Cinematograph Films”. Greater Union always gave my father (who worked in Cinema Distribution Exhibition) guest double movie passes, to every first-night ”red carpet Opening Night” at The State Theatre Cinema at 49 Market Street. Up until his death, my dad always received ”two house seats” for every Opening Night performance events at the Theatre Royal SYDNEY and at Her Majesty’s Theatre SYDNEY. As a child, when mum choose not to go, I often went with him, to those live performance events.

As a young child, I remember being taken for each new show, at both The New Theatre at 60 Sussex Street, and the Phillip Street Theatre when located at 150 Elizabeth Street, and for classical music concerts at Sydney Town Hall.

Being happy is a choice, and I have always viewed my life, as material ready be made into a series of amazing tentpole movies. My New Years Resolution is kept every year: ”Get to see/review five new live theatre shows each week, and get to see/review six new cinema movies each week”, plus is one of the Australian Cinema Pioneers, and apparently have seen far too much already, but always wanting to experience more and more each year. I am also able to do almost everything that I enjoy doing.

Yes, I do have a great daytime job in I.T. as ”Software Design Project Manager”, PLUS each evening until quite late – – – Australian Cinematograph Films historical censorship consultant – product-placement consultant – mystery-shopper consultant – playwright, writer, author, director, producer, photographer, cinematographer, color-grader, subtitles proofreader – arts/ drama/ music/ film critic and judge, journalist, member FIPRESCI & FCCA & AFCA, member AACTA accredited film reviewer-critic-writer, accredited IMDB.COM critic-reviewer-author, projectionist, plus an innovative iconoclast.

476 posts by Lynn Belvedere

the full list of winners of the 2015 sydney theatre awards

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On Monday Night 18th January 2016, all the winners of the 2015 Sydney Theatre Awards were announced in a star-studded gala ceremony. This year thirty-six Awards were presented, shared between nineteen Sydney productions, seen on stage during calendar year 2015.…

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short and sweet theatre 2016 top 80 week 3 @ depot theatre

This was  an excellent week featuring nine entertaining performances.

1 The Blood of a Thousand Chickens

 1. THE BLOOD OF A THOUSAND CHICKENS

This was a re-imagined epic classical Greek historical comedy with even Socrates getting a mention. Historically inaccurate. Oedipus discovers that offering the Gods the …

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short and sweet cabaret 2016 week 3 @ new theatre

00 Brandy Alexander-1 01 Olivia Farag-1 02 Alexandra Chambers-1 03 Anton Johannssen-1 04 Dallas Saliba -1 05 Melody Beck-1 06 Anna Canillas-1 07 Christian Cavallo-1

Short and Sweet Cabaret week three had a superb assortment of talent on stage, including emcee, Miss Brandy Alexander.

This week had a huge range of cabaret style songs, including female burlesque, cabaret pole-dancing, farce, comic puppetry, and cover …

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short and sweet comedy+magic 2016 week 1 @ new theatre

01 Alex Moffat-1

02 Dudley Levell-1

03 Adrian Dean-1

04 CJ Delling-1

05 Daniel Muggleton-1

06 Andrew Boyd-1

07 moony-d-1

08 Makedonka Stoilova-1

09 Dale Trueman-1

10 Timothy Hyde-1

11 Rob Andrews-1

Pics all by Sylvi Soe, and displayed in performance order.

Sydney’s Biggest Little Cabaret Festival is back, and now with two brand new side festival events with COMEDY+MAGIC performers every week, for just two Sundays during January 2016. Presenting the …

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short and sweet cabaret 2016 week 2 @ new theatre

Sydney’s Biggest Little Cabaret Festival is back, with a brand new round of performers every week, for four weeks during January, and ending with a Gala Final on 7th February.

Short and Sweet Cabaret Week Two had a superb assortment …

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