Sydney Reviews

Details: Ashley Walker; 16 August 2012

Your five year old daughter returns after missing for nine months. Just what has gone on during this time? Perhaps these nine months have made her a completely different person.

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

Equator launched last Thursday, with a focus on 'Afrika', featuring two of Sydney's most explosive acts, sourced, or partly so, from that continent: AJ Davita and Keyim Ba.

Details: Jodi McAlister; 12 August 2012

Underneath it seems strangely hollow, not repressed but empty, with character, plot, and motivation becoming a little confusing.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 12 August 2012

The characters are engaging, the pace is tight, the largely conflict-devoid WWII setting is glamorous, the dialogue is funny and the romance is, for the most part, appealing. But the songs are what really sell it.

Details: Nicholas Routley; 10 August 2012

Simone Young conducts Wagner lovingly, indeed passionately, without a trace of bombast, and with a rhythmic plasticity which always serves the expression.

Details: Nicholas Routley; 03 August 2012

Angelich announced, from the first gentle entry after the stormy opening tutti, that nothing would be extreme, that he would allow the lyricism and tenderness of so much of this concerto to soften its more tempestuous moments.

Details: Helen Barry; 23 July 2012

This is a beautifully conceived, immaculately executed production. Tim Draxl is sighably sublime as Chet.

Details: Rebecca Whitton; 21 July 2012

The Seafarer | O’Punksky's and Darlinghurst Theatre

In McPherson's play the characters still have faith but have lost the moral fortitude to live honourable lives.

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