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Jazz
Live Review

Review: Gary Bartz – NTU Redux: The Eternal Tenure of Sound (Melbourne International Jazz Festival)

Aged 85, Gary Bartz remains a master musician, a seeker of new influences and inspirations.

October 25, 2025
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Phar Lap: The Electro-Swing Musical (Hayes Theatre Co)

Completely daft and deliciously funny, this musical tribute to Australia's greatest horse (yeah, Kiwis ... we know) is a winner straight out of the gate.

October 24, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: 4 Minutes, 12 Seconds (Crying Chair Theatre, Secret House & Flight Path Theatre)

A digital worst-case scenario supercharged with class anxiety, cliffhanger moments and jaw-dropping reveals.

October 24, 2025
Opera
Live Review

Review: Roméo et Juliette (State Opera South Australia)

Convincing performances and a visually arresting production thrust Shakespeare’s tragedy into the contemporary world.

October 24, 2025
Jazz
Live Review

Review: Bill Frisell Trio (John Cristian Productions)

Bill Frisell brings a symphonic sweep to a spellbinding masterclass with his telepathic trio.

October 24, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Heart is a Wasteland (Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company)

An intense but troubled love affair reflects the pain of traumatised Country in John Harvey's road-movie-like two-hander.

October 23, 2025
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet in Recital (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)

Bavouzet’s musicianship goes far beyond mere mastery of the technical difficulties in Ravel's works.

October 21, 2025
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Calamity Jane (Sydney Opera House & One Eyed Man Productions)

No dead wood in this sharper, funnier and even more unruly reprise of the smash-hit musical about a frontier square peg and her search for love.

October 21, 2025
Jazz
Live Review

Review: Danilo Pérez (Melbourne International Jazz Festival)

A rare chance to catch the uninhibited playing of this virtuoso jazz pianist outside a group setting.

October 20, 2025
Opera
Live Review

Review: Il trovatore (West Australian Opera)

Even if the plot is dubious, it’s all about the music and the voices. And oh, what voices.

October 20, 2025
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Beethoven’s First (Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra)

An evening of "intense joy and celebration" as Pekka Kuusisto makes his TSO debut.

October 20, 2025
Opera
Live Review

Review: Song from the Uproar (Lyric Opera)

American composer Missy Mazzoli’s opera is an abstract, elusive look at a 19th-century Swiss woman’s short but extraordinary life.

October 19, 2025
Chamber, Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Convergence (Australian String Quartet)

In its fortieth anniversary year, the ASQ illuminates the string quartet genre with major works by Stanhope, Britten and Schubert.

October 18, 2025

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