Sydney Reviews

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 08 January 2013

It might be said Green and colleagues, indeed, transform the performance of music, old and new, into high art.

Details: Jodi McAlister; 08 January 2013

The tales of virginity loss range from the romantic to the horrifying, from the funny to the tender.

Details: Ashley Walker; 07 January 2013

The show is genuinely laugh out loud funny in parts. The humour is quirky and the execution of Woodley and Yates is wonderful.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 18 December 2012

Queenie may be a distinguished and distinctive cabaret and musical theatre performer, but her alter ego, Jan, must surely be Australia's, if not the world's, premier music therapist.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 15 December 2012

Yes, it's got a motive. And a premise. A heart. A conscience. An unbifurcated soul. But the outcome is so busy and buzzing with words and doublespeak it becomes virtually unintelligible gibberish, a kissing cousin of the very poppycock it's heat-seeking to torpedo.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 13 December 2012

Yasmin Levy is a passionate woman. But not in an overt way. If passion can be understated, hers is. She isn't bursting an appendix, a la Joplin, to get her music, or her meaning, across. Hers is a meticulously measured delivery.

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A Steady Rain | Cathode Ray Tube

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lloyd bradford (brad) syke
12 December 2012

By interval, it was raining steadily. Eery. A Steady Rain, currently playing at Tap Gallery Theatre (which, at this time of year especially, is akin to an airless hell), is presented by Cathode Ray Tube in its Australian premiere.

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Castor and Pollux | Pinchgut Opera

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Nicholas Routley
08 December 2012

The production of Rameau's Castor and Pollux marks a new phase in Pinchgut's development, acknowledging that staging and spectacle are also an important part of opera of any age.

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Mariage Blanc | Sydney Theatre Company

Don’t Take Your Love to Town | Belvoir

Psycho Beach Party | Little Ones Theatre

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