Sydney Reviews

Details: Rebecca Whitton; 30 June 2022

Once is a wonderfully uplifting and touching musical. It is both an ode to Irish culture with its stirring, emotional music, humour and warmth, and a call to be brave; to seize the day. This combination is what makes the show feel so inspiring.

Details: Dennis Clements; 11 June 2022

Bangarra Dance Theatre's 10^th anniversary tour of Terrain explores the timeless wonder of Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre) Australia’s largest salt lake and a landscape from where human beings draw life and express meaning to that life.

Sydney
Dance

Details: Richard Cotter; 10 June 2022

The show begins with a comical icebreaker and we delightfully discover that Anna’s journey to becoming Eliza starts when she was a prepubescent violinist, part of the orchestra playing in a school production of My Fair Lady, in which her sister had the starring role.

Details: Richard Cotter; 07 June 2022

A razzmatazz extravaganza of glitz, gloss, corsets, bustiers, stockings and frocks, Moulin Rouge exceeds even the excessiveness of the Baz Luhrmann film that this stage fantasia springs from.

Details: Richard Cotter; 06 June 2022

Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes is an enthralling and entertaining exploration of power, truth and desire, of afterglow and after burn.

Details: Rebecca Whitton; 04 June 2022

The privilege of watching the thrilling skill, precision and exuberance of the Sydney Dance Company palpably rippled through the audience on the opening night of Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela’s Ab [Intra].

Sydney
Dance

Details: Nicholas Routley; 27 April 2022

This year's line-up, a cross section of some of the finest chamber ensembles in the country, would have graced any of Australia’s more well established festivals, and it is a massive endorsement of Festival Director Catherine Harker’s entrepreneurial skill that she was able to secure these wonderful musicians for a festival that too few people have yet heard of.

Details: Emily Shaddick; 21 April 2022

Despite Mozart's start as a child prodigy and his fame spanning 225 years, his role in this show is a supporting act. The real showstoppers are Kathryn and Paul O’Keeffe who tumble, twist and pantomime this show to life.