witness for the prosecution- reviewer david kary

In this classic 1953 Agathie Christie whodunnit, Daniel Felkai plays the defendant Leonard Vole, on trial for the murder of a rich elderly woman at the legendary Old Bailey, who suffers the torture of seeing his beautiful young woman Romaine

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move to move

This is an extraordinary recording of the Nederlands Dance Theatre in their home theatre the Lucent Theatre in Den Hag of four short works. For dance affecionados this is a must see as NDT, revered in the dance world, so

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the flood

Jackie Smith’s dark play THE FLOOD is about the return of a younger sister to the family home in remote south western New South Wales. It explores the troubled relationship she has with her ageing mother and her bitter sister.

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sleeping beauty

The magnificent State Theatre was a stunning, very appropriate setting for this very chocolate-boxy work that demands very spectacular, lavish sets and costumes and magnificent dancing of the very difficult, showy traditional Petipa choreography (which actually sometimes was adapted rather

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nunsense

Well, I have a confession to make. This entertaining Rockdale Musical Society production was the first version of NUNSENSE I have ever seen. Despite the show being performed on stage and TV since 1985 in many countries including our own,

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conversation piece- reviewer lynne lancaster

Three actors, three dancers, six mobiles. Mix, stir and serve…

The idea behind this production, the latest collaboration between Melbourne choreographer Lucy Guerin and Belvoir, was great but I am afraid for me it didn’t quite work. Some of the

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the tender age

The subject of how young people these days are responding to living in a highly sophisticated, high tech world is not only of interest to social commentators such as Hugh Mackay but also generates great interest, concern and debate within

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eifman ballet’s ‘tchaikovsky’

In this ballet we see Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s emotions one minute on simmer and then oscillate between violent extremes and slip into his dream-world the next. We, the audience are privy to seeing through a key-hole in the wings – his

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simon callow at the house

For one night only lucky Sydney siders were privileged to hear distinguished actor Simon Callow deliver a captivating monologue on Charles Dickens.

Now silver-haired, in mellifluous voice , Callow was casually yet elegantly dressed in a grey suit and had

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barrymore

Christopher Plummer as John ( Jack) Barrymore is magnificent . This was filmed last year at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto , at the end of a sell out stage season. The stage show was originally seen in 1997 and

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