Sydney Reviews

: Selma Nadarajah; 22 December 2006

Raymonda | Australian Ballet

Photo - Jim McFarlane

Luxurious, romantic, beautiful and innocent, Raymonda is an intelligent and refreshing adaptation of Petipa’s original work.

: James Waites; 22 December 2006

A Kind of Alaska / Reunion | Sydney Theatre Company

Photo - Heidrun Lohr

Take an astute selection of top-drawer talents, mix with intelligence, fresh energy, an eye to the future and it's not surprising the results are better than pleasing.

: Tessa Needham; 06 December 2006

Plays: By Himself | Tamarama Rock Surfers

The acting is most talented, but the real star here is Lawson’s writing. It is imaginative, hilariously self-referential, enjoyable and satisfying.

: Simon Piening; 29 November 2006

The Bourgeois Gentleman | Sydney Theatre Company

Photo - Tracey Schramm

Despite teasing us with it’s near hits and misses The Bourgeois Gentleman never quite got off the ground.

: Kellie Heywood; 23 November 2006

Red Stitch’s Hellbent is an adaptation of the seventeenth century play The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster. It’s a revenge tragedy, a hysterical melodrama of Shakespearean proportions served up with an extra dollop of nastiness and it’s wonderful.

: Simon Piening; 30 November 1999

Angels in America | new theatre

Director Alex Galeazzi’s take on Tony Kushner’s breathtaking work Angels in America is a commanding and potent night of theatre, but does it deliver on the play’s Millenarian promise?