In which I fail to stop my list at 10
THIS year I saw more than 200 performances and, over the past week or so, have written about the people, plays, operas, dance works and musicals that spoke to me most strongly. Now I cull th…
THIS year I saw more than 200 performances and, over the past week or so, have written about the people, plays, operas, dance works and musicals that spoke to me most strongly. Now I cull th…
I'VE avoided making neat lists of 10 of this and 10 of that in my survey of 2014, which is good when it comes to the individuals who made the deepest impression on me. I decided not to divid…
DANCE is my great passion but this year there wasn't a huge amount to bowl me over.Certainly I saw plenty of fine dancing " when does one not? " but in classical ballet there were few new wo…
MUSICAL theatre in Sydney got a boost in 2014 with the arrival of Hayes Theatre Co. When Darlinghurst Theatre Company won the residency at the lovely new Eternity Playhouse, a group of music…
TWO pieces of 2015 theatre programming in Melbourne would have interested me anyway, but having seen the shows in New York early this year makes them irresistible. Caryl Churchill's Love and…
OF the more than 200 shows I saw last year, about a third were plays. Dance, opera, musical theatre and cabaret make up the rest. Unfortunately symphonic and chamber music featured very ligh…
EARLY next week I'll be at the Vanguard in Sydney's Newtown to see Jacqui Dark and Kanen Breen's cabaret show Under the Covers. That will bring my 2014 show total to 207, including a strong …
Maina Gielgud, artistic director of The Australian Ballet from 1983 to 1997, is in Sydney preparing to restage her acclaimed 1986 production of Giselle, last performed by the company in 2008…
Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage. Lyric Theatre, Sydney, December 3, 2014 Beyond Desire, By Neil Rutherford and Kieran Drury. Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney, November 26. WHO can tell why…