Sydney Reviews

: Selma Nadarajah; 25 January 2007

Madeleine Peyroux

The beautifully delicate crooning of Madeleine Peyroux, weighted with pained honesty of heart ache, loneliness and yearning, seems to be more suited to a more intimate venue rather than the vast space of the State Theatre.

: Aleksei Wechter; 24 January 2007

A Midsummer Nights Dream | Yohangza Theatre Company

Yohangza Theatre Company, has not produced a traditional treatment of the play. Bearing from South Korean, they have infused the production with Korean mythology, theatrical techniques and an Eastern sensibility.

: Sarah Doyle; 24 January 2007

Kaidan: A Ghost Story

‘Total theatre’ will only work if all elements are strong, and indeed Meryl Tankard’s direction, choreography and design in Kaidan: A Ghost Story brings an explosive fusion of art-forms.

: Rebecca Whitton; 16 January 2007

Lost and Found Orchestra | The Stomp Company

Lost and Found Orchestra, presented at the Sydney Festival by highly regarded British theatrical music company, The Stomp Company, is as joyful as it is inventive, as accessible as it is complex and as entertaining as it is original.

: Brett Casben; 06 January 2007

No Chance In Hell Hotel | Darlinghurst Theatre Company

Written by its stars, Kate Smith and Drew Fairley it’s a farce in which a lovelorn crippled cop and a pert, determined sidekick provide the hook on which to hang a tenuous thriller where love conquers all.

: Aleksei Wechter; 04 January 2007

Redheads | Queensize Productions

Redheads follows the melodramatic lives of Ruth (Beth Champion) and Joanna (Emily Weare), two wannabe ‘twenty something’ spinsters who just want to feel loved.

: 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.