4 ½ stars
A large, diverse crowd attended Sydney Symphony’s concert on 24 April 2024. Subscribers were joined with many visitors from Scandinavia and Europe to see Osmo Vänskä conduct the music of Jean Sibelius.
Sibelius was born in …
KING LEAR is quite vain + brutal and dark. Royal vanity and the refusal to see the true nature of the deceit, greed and family betrayal by his two daughters, leads to his downfall and exile into the wilderness. After …
In an unnamed Western European nation, a President and First Lady recover in their private rooms after a failed anarchist assasination attempt. The attempt killed the President’s closest ally, the Colonel, and the First Lady’s beloved dog. Their son …
From the start of her latest novel NORMAL WOMEN, writer Ainslie Hogarth seeks to shock her readership with immediate accounts of the horrors of childbirth, establishing her critique of common representations of female experiences. Through shared tales that compare C-sections …
I’ve seen a lot of theatre over the years, have been at great opening nights, talked to some awesome theatremakers, watched some fantastic productions. Sadly I have also experienced the darker side of the theatre world where way too many …
Streamed by the Australian Digital Concert Hall, filmed at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, MOSTLY MOZART, under the direction of Timothy Young and Peter Neville, presented a most delightful and unusual concert, splendidly played by ANAM musicians.
First we heard György Ligeti …
This Uncle Vanya is Annie Baker’s 1914 translation of the Chekhov classic, presented by Newcastle company, HER Productions. HER’s debut production of this Vanya in 2022 garnered good reviews. So should this welcomed Sydney performance of the production.
The play …
This is a beautifully presented production of one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musicals set in the 1980’s.
It is much loved musical as it presents a young woman, unnamed, who has felt like her life was incomplete without …
SHORT AND SWEET SYDNEY THEATRE FESTIVAL – 2024 WEEK EIGHT @ TURNER HALL THEATRE
S+S SYDNEY 2024 Heat #8
Thursday 18th April 2024 until Sunday 21st April 2024.
The world’s biggest short play festival is back in Sydney.
SHORT AND …
As an award-winning investigative journalist, Louise Milligan has reported on her fair share of heinous crimes. She draws on that experience to write her first novel PHEASANTS NEST, focusing on the all too familiar experience of violence against women. It …