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- Richard Cotter
At Last – The Etta James Story has completed two sold out seasons at the Sydney Opera House since it's world premiere back in 2013.
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- Marika Bryant
The second year of Bello Winter Music festival and you can already feel the vibe as you enter town – the spirit of the festival palpable.
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- Emily Shaddick
There is just something about Singin’ in the Rain. Even if you have never seen it you surely know the song, or the image of a well-dressed man splashing happily in puddles while the rain buckets down upon him.
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- Richard Cotter
An ironic play on Hen's Night, the quaint pre-nuptial ritual of brides to be, Henna Night is basically a cock-fight, or a fight over a cock, from two brooding chicks.
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- Nicholas Routley
Pinchgut Opera’s motto has always been, to misquote Monteverdi, Prima la musica. Music first, then drama. This opera was chosen for its music, not for its drama.
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- Richard Cotter
Sam O'Sullivan's play, The Block Universe, is not only inspired by Vonnegut but is infused with Kurt's detached observer/involved participant paradigm and the same naïve vision and playfulness of the author.
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- Richard Cotter
“I'm his father, and he's my son, and if there's something bigger than that I'll put a bullet in my head.” says Joe Keller, ominously, in Arthur Miller's All My Sons.
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