Sydney Reviews

Details: Emily Shaddick; 10 January 2021

Yes, the bodies you see are perfect specimens of sculptured sixpacks and biceps you could walk over and get at least 2000 steps in. But they are muscles moving bodies in marvellous ways. These boys can dance and every movement is potent.

Details: Emily Shaddick; 05 January 2021

To pee or not to pee. It sounds like a lowbrow take on the infamous Hamlet quote. One that a philistine would utter while their cronies scoff and drink mead and the thespians nearby cringe while nibbling on breast of peacock.

Details: Emily Shaddick; 11 December 2020

Frozen might be a Disney movie with two princesses but it is far from the damsel-in-distress storyline of old. Since it’s release in 2013 Frozen has become a global phenomenon. Yes there is magic, glitter and love but it is so much more than that.

Details: Richard Cotter; 02 October 2020

Protagonists, He and She are so all over each other at the beginning of Con Nats’ The Pond, they don't just get a room, they buy a house.

Details: Marika Bryant; 22 September 2020

Intimate and interactive, Ash Grunwald showed us a small part of what he is made of, musically. Ash has written a book ‘Surf by Day, Jam by Night’ and has also, with his wife, created Earth Bottles, dealing with problems of single-use plastics, encompassing drink bottles, coffee cups and straws. So much talent wrapped up with so many guitars.

Music
NSW

Details: Nicholas Routley; 15 September 2020

The audience for any one night is divided into five groups of twelve people, each of which walks between the venues, so that there is only a Covid-safe number of people in any venue at any one time.

Details: Nicholas Routley; 10 June 2020

In 2013 the Queensland Symphony Orchestra premiered the First Symphony by the well-known Australian composer and pianist Mark Isaacs. The symphony was entitled “First”, implying the intention of a second at some time. Last month he released his second symphony digitally, performed by the NotePerformer Virtual Orchestra, with Mark himself directing.

Details: Nicholas Routley; 16 February 2020

The myth of Faust, a brilliant man who sells his soul to the devil in return for a life unconstrained by any moral laws, fascinated the 19th century.