Sydney Reviews

Details: Lisa-Maree Botticelli; 23 May 2008

My Name is Rachel Corrie | Bareboards Productions

My Name is Rachel Corrie is an intriguing and passionate one-woman drama

Details: Sonia Allan; 20 May 2008

The latest concert from the Brandenburg Choir features 50 trebles, 30 consummate choristers, one Australian premiere, and a whole lot of beautiful music.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 20 May 2008

You’d have to be positively robotic not to respond, even if you were utterly unfamiliar with his very considerable body of work

Details: Sonia Allan; 18 May 2008

While offering occasional moments of warmth and humour, QED is on the whole a trite, saccharine and shallow production of an unremarkable play.

Details: Eliza Eggler; 18 May 2008

‘Latin American Nights’ began with the four dances from Ginastera’s ‘Estancia’, a ballet suite which represents an entire day and a journey of young love.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 14 May 2008

Blair has put it all together with warmth, sensitivity, insight, understanding, maturity and originality, while holding onto a sweetly childlike playfulness which can only but succeed in thrilling audiences

Details: Sonia Allan; 13 May 2008

Director Alex Galeazzi’s take on Tony Kushner’s breathtaking work Angels in America is a commanding and potent night of theatre, but does it deliver on the play’s Millenarian promise?

Details: James Waites; 12 May 2008

Every now and again a show comes along that is so fresh and different it can defeat reviewers and, without word going out, theatre lovers miss out on what they might greatly enjoy.

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