Review: Singin’ in the Rain (Prospero Arts and QPAC)
This home-grown, semi-staged concert version is pretty darn good and a real crowd-pleaser.
This home-grown, semi-staged concert version is pretty darn good and a real crowd-pleaser.
In its Australian debut, the sax quartet, with violin, performs a seamless program of Bach, Weil and Gershwin, showcasing an exemplary sense of balance, clarity and tone.
Traversing time and place, this must-see play examines the oil industry, empire and greed through the microcosm of a timeless mother-daughter relationship.
This family comedy has an impressive set and shining musical numbers, but is a bit too eager for a happy ending.
Andrea Keller's ideal mid-week concert allows listeners to indulge in meditative escapism.
Updated to 1953, and with an Aussie Elsie, this good-looking production misses too many opportunities.
With music performed by Elena Kats-Chernin, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Taiko drummers, choreographer Paulina Quinteros has fashioned a genre-defying display that deserves more than one viewing.
Pianist Jonathan Biss demonstrates dignified introspection in a fine Beethoven concert that also features the Australian premiere of Brett Dean's Gneixendorf Music, a Winter’s Journey.
Among an excellent cast, Anthony Warlow gives the most complex portrayal as Captain E.J. Smith, but problems with the production detract from their performance.
Heather Mitchell gives a magnificent performance in Suzie Miller's one-woman play about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, highlighting the play's strengths and smoothing its bumps.
If this First Nations-led contemporary circus ensemble can maintain the raw physicality displayed in this piece, it will be walking a sure path to success.
In this moving documentary, Sydney luthier Harry Vatiliotis makes his final (800th) violin for his close friend, violinist and filmmaker Romano Crivici.
The most complex and ambitious iteration yet of the remarkable, annual Situ-8 series, featuring site-specific, short dance works.