Sydney Reviews

Details: James Waites; 09 November 2007

Respect – The Musical is a light-hearted celebration of women and their place in American popular song. It is a fun and well-realised show that many ticket-buying Sydneysiders would certainly enjoy.

Details: Tessa Needham; 09 November 2007

This is a beautiful and unusual work, with excellent performances by the five dancers and some wonderful visual art as well.

Details: Brett Casben; 08 November 2007

He has a wonderful voice, rich and vibrant that resonates with feeling and the songs he has chosen for the evening are equally varied and joyous.

Details: Eliza Eggler; 07 November 2007

Miserable and uninviting are the only words I can use to describe the weather last Saturday night

Details: Brett Casben; 06 November 2007

Lessons in Flight | Darlinghurst Theatre

Lessons in Flight is a moral tale but like any good morality play it couches its message in gentle humor and in very moving visual and rhetoric images.

Details: Aleksei Wechter; 02 November 2007

Kiki & Herb: The Year of Magical Drinking Tour

Long, strong legs, sagging breasts, an eruption of what should be greying hair, diamante tears and a set of eyes that have seen the world. Kiki is one formidable, volatile and gracious hostess

Details: Rebecca Whitton; 27 October 2007

Katherine Thomson’s immensely affecting new play, King Tide, deals with both the personal grief of a family and broader, contemporary moral issues.

Details: Tessa Needham; 26 October 2007

Blue Print is a new work by director/performer Deborah Pollard – an “artistic response” to the 2003 Canberra bush fires that burned her family home to the ground.

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