Sydney Reviews

Details: Vanessa Lahey; 22 July 2009

French chanteuse Caroline Nin, crowned France’s First Lady of Cabaret, has graced the Vanguard Theatre with her presence to bring Edith Piaf to Australia.

Details: Augusta Supple; 16 July 2009

Enveloped in darkness, like the moment before waking, our eyes are opened by the light, we are greeted with a bare space and an argument.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 12 July 2009

Overwhelmingly, the semblance of narrative plays second fiddle to bigger ideas, feelings and observations. It's painterly: big, broad splashes of colour, redolent of universal struggles.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 11 July 2009

Billed as a multicultural romantic comedy, its focus, to take a racial tally, is on two Asians, an Indian, a Greek, a Jew and an Aussie. Predictably enough, they walk into a bar ('what is this, some kinda joke?!')

Details: Vanessa Lahey; 11 July 2009

Led by distinguished violinist Helena Rathbone, the ensemble is comprised of the old and the new of Australia’s classical music scene.

Details: Olympia Bowman-Derrick; 07 July 2009

Opera Australia’s Baroque Masterpieces presents a beautifully complementary double-bill – Georg Frideric Handel’s Acis and Galatea with Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, tragic Baroque musical scores expressing the heartbreak of lost love.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 05 July 2009

If you like to go with the flow, rather than the pack, zig when everyone else seems to unquestioningly, robotically zag, you're bound to find nirvana in Mandala

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The Taming Of The Shrew | Bell Shakespeare

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05 July 2009

All in all, I can't, and couldn't, rate this production highly enough: no amount of hyperbole or adjectival indulgence would serve to describe it's sheer perfection.

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The City | Sydney Theatre Company

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk | Arts Radar and B Sharp

Pericles | Bell Shakespeare

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