Arts & Entertainment Reviews
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Tiddas: Sydney Festival Blak Out
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Tiddas opens with the cast making their way to the stage carrying books, wine and a plate of sandwiches, chatting amongst themselves. It is a warm start setting the tone for a play about sisterhood. Set in Bris-Vegas, Tidd… -
Sydney Festival: Are we not drawn onward to new erA
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If you caught World Without Us (Sydney Festival 2018), you know Belgium’s Ontroerend Goed theatre company seek to challenge. Risk taking theatre can be uncomfortable. Director Alexander Devriendt is ever the provocateur. In Are … -
Tongpop's Great Expectations
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Telly Tuita’s obsession with costumes and masks makes his first Australian solo exhibition, Tongpop’s Great Expectations, fun and accessible. There’s a darkness underlying the colourful characters though, stemming from the artist’s life, d… -
Sydney Festival: Il Tabarro
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Summer. Sydney. Festival. Three of my favourite words combine to make January my favourite month of the year. No need for New Year resolutions. My annual challenge is to attend one event each day for the duration of the Sydney Festival… -
Sydney Festival: White Gold
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Despite the glitzy name, White Gold skips over spangles and takes circus back to its roots: a band of travelling troubadours who can fit their whole show on the back of an ox cart. Performed by Phare, The Cambodian Circus, … -
Sydney Festival: Smashed The Nightcap
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If you’re looking for a wild and a little bit naughty, late night adventure, Smashed: The Nightcap will certainly satisfy. The Sydney Festival show is a femme-fronted mixture of cabaret, circus and drag. Featuring a live… -
Sydney Festival 2024: Bananaland
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Confession: musicals aren’t really my thing. While others lean in when they hear the telltale inflection that a character is about to burst into song, I tend to sigh and wish the plot would move along. The boredom might be, in part, from the way… -
Anatomy Of A Fall
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On paper Anatomy Of A Fall reads like any other crime thriller. A husband dies, wife is pinned for the murder, and we spend the majority of the film guessing did she or didn't she commit the crime. Having taken out the coveted Pal… -
Dream Scenario
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What is it about fame that has so many people craving the limelight? Is it the lure of money, popularity, adoration, devotion; it seems anyone these days can be famous. One of Life's most famous quotes is "In the future everyone will have their 15… -
The White Mermaid
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The White Mermaid is the most totally fabulous 2023 holidays pantomime by Trevor Ashley and co. now performing at the Seymour Centre Sydney. Before you read on, The White Mermaid (an erudite and extremely funny mash up of c… -
Swan Lake ~ The Australian Ballet
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For the final show of the year, Australian Ballet Artistic Director David Hallberg chose the classic and perhaps one of the most well-known stories, Swan Lake. Principals Benedicte Bemet and Joseph Caley dance the title roles. Swa… -
Rouge
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Christine Ibrahim (Cirque Songstress) cuts a magnificent silhouette in a flame red ball gown. Showing operatic training, she sings live with red smoke billowing out behind her on a stage painted in blood red. It’s hard to take your eyes off her … -
Bach In The Castle Of Heaven
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Bach Akademie Australia has truly marked the conclusion of a remarkable year of early music-making with a series of three outstanding concerts, e… -
Darwin's Reptilia
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Darwin’s Reptilia is a comedy-drama with a biting script that will keep audiences glued until the end. The play opens with a self-obsessed couple Renata and Declan (played by Ainslie McGlynn and Danny Ball), in New York … -
DARKFIELD
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With sold out sessions earlier this year, over 32,000 Sydneysiders experienced DARKFIELD. Luckily for us, DARKFIELD has returned to Sydney and this time there are more shows to thrill visitors. DARKFIELD is a collection of… -
The Australian Ballet ~ The Dream, Marguerite + Armand
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The Australian Ballet presents a double bill of one of the greatest choreographers of the 20th century Sir Frederick Ashton’s timeless classics, The Dream and Marguerite and Armand. Based on a true story, Marguerite and… -
Losing It
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Losing It is a one-woman show about sexual anxiety and romantic relationships. But it goes deeper and through the brilliant script and performance of Megan Bennetts this thought-provoking tragicomedy will have you laughing, commi… -
Mansion + Witch
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Messing around with your dead ex. is nothing new for anyone old enough to remember the movie Ghost (1990), however writer, director and producer of Mansion ($50–$120), Bass G. Fam, has kicked things up a notch. In this show, dead Daddy, Mark Wal… -
cLUB bENT (Liveworks)
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We’re getting old, darling. My experience at cLUB bENT was tempered by attending a queer engagement at the Marayong Community Hall earlier in the evening. At this event, two beautiful young brides-to-be flitted between long tables of their exten… -
A Little Night Music
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A Little Night Music is the Stephen Sondheim romantic musical about "how unlikely likely is". To write that the 1973 multi Tony Award winning A Little Night Music is a classic is like writing that water is wet. The rhythmic…