Sydney Reviews

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 17 August 2010

There's something terrifying about Judy Bailey. I reckon she'd be a hard taskmistress. But that's precisely what's so great about her and, consequently, about the (mostly) con students who make up the Jazz Connection big band.

Details: Brenton Amies; 16 August 2010

From Chekhov with Love is a triptych of short plays by Russian writer, Anton Chekhov comprising of The Jubilee, The Bear and The Proposal.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 16 August 2010

Nardi Simpson and Kaleena Briggs met at Eora College 11 years ago. Thank God they did, or we wouldn't have Stiff Gins, a couple of angel-voiced singers and songwriters with gentle souls and sharp, perceptive minds.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 16 August 2010

Dream? Nightmare? Both, as any trip through the dimly-lit tunnels of the unconscious must be. Alice in Wonderland runs smack-bang into Freud and Jung.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 13 August 2010

Dylan Thomas' opening gambit for Under Milkwood is the very stuff that makes other writers unbearably, acutely aware of their own inadequacy.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 10 August 2010

As Rowan Atkinson, playing an imperious teacher in a comedy sketch, once described it: “The Comedy of Errors has the joke of two people looking like each other. Twice.”

Details: Nicholas Routley; 09 August 2010

The concert began with the prelude to Act III from Wagner’s Lohengrin, whose title role is the original knight in shining armour.

Details: Trevar Alan Chilver; 06 August 2010

Although The Berry Man might be centred on the Vietnam War, its theme really runs much deeper than that.

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