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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1980

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You Mean They Have Concerts on Campus?

Tharunka · Tuesday 19 August 1980 · page 2

Does anybody on campus miss those free Wednesday concerts on the Library Lawn? All the bands and acts that…

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Theatre Times Jewish character in an absorbing Theatre with capital “T”

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 21 August 1980 · page 27

Reviews this week of two quite outstanding new productions on the North Side, each…

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The Dybbuk Is Good Theatre

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 August 1980 · page 16

Compelling theatre would certainly describe NIDA’s current offering, the Yiddish play “The…

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Theatre Times the Island with Box-office Pull

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 August 1980 · page 21

Inside the Island, set in north western New South Wales, summer, 1912, is, at least on the…

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University Theatre Company Utc presents Box and Cox

Tharunka · Tuesday 2 September 1980 · page 10

U.T.C. wishes to express its sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused to patrons by the postponement of its production of Box and Cox. The…

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The Gay Theatre Company Spitting Image and P.S Your Cat is Dead

Tharunka · Tuesday 2 September 1980 · page 11

The Gay Theatre Company has been in existence for just twelve months and in that time it has become one of Sydney’s more significant fringe theatre companies…

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Theatre Times Neil Simon’s great “play with music”

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 September 1980 · page 19

Like all reviewers who love the theatre, we approach each performance with one hope…

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The theatre off King George St

The Australian Jewish Times · Wednesday 10 September 1980 · page 22

The Theatre off-King George Street has (and is meant to have) an association with off-Broadway. However, what is highly developed in New York is only beginning in Jerusalem. Larry S. Price tells the story of the Jerusalem Tzavta, whose English-language presentation of “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” became the talk of the town among the city's large…

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Theatre Times Don't be afraid of James Joyce!

The Australian Jewish Times · Wednesday 10 September 1980 · page 59

Fionnula Flanagan researched, wrote and almost singlehandedly plays a hugely inventive…

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Theatre Times Welcome back King O’Malley

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 September 1980 · page 17

Good to see the name Brian Nebenzahl bobbing up again in association with Kym Bonython, in the…

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Dance to Old Time

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 September 1980 · page 21

The NSW Board of Jewish Education’s Ladies’ Auxiliary will hold a Down Memory Lane Dance at the…

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Theatre Times Merry Wives Is True to Title

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 September 1980 · page 17

The Sydney Theatre Company (long may it flourish) has followed its superb and deservedly…

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'Theatre for workers to be proud of'

Tribune · Wednesday 1 October 1980 · page 10

It's Saturday night at the Wollongong Workers' Club. Downstairs it's business as usual, poker machines and a…

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Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 October 1980 · page 22

Received a vast wad of publicity material from Israel’s Bat-Dor Dance Company, out of the blue. Could it be that an Australian tour is again in the offing? The company…

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Israel Conductor for Abc Concert Season

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 October 1980 · page 9

Several Jewish artists have been engaged for the ABC’s 1981 concert season. Heading an impressive list is Israeli-born Dalia…

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THEATRE Times Bravo Henri Szeps

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 October 1980 · page 16

Sydney theatre isn’t all that flush with good Jewish actors, so it’s a special pleasure to be…

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Theatre Times Feast of Chinese Acrobats

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 October 1980 · page 17

“This is going to be one of those nights,” our companion whispered as the second number in the…

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Theatre Desire Caught by the Tail

Tharunka · Tuesday 14 October 1980 · page 13

100 reasons why you should go and "Desire Caught by the Tail" by Pablo Picasso and "Carry on Crow" by Colin & Graham Campbell. Running from Friday…

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The Transcript of the Talk Given by John Howard in the Mathews Theatre

Tharunka · Tuesday 14 October 1980 · page 7

1 don't want to talk for too long (Cheers). I would just like to say a few things about the important issues- in the election campaign. Then I shall give time for the audience to ask questions, for…

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Dinner Dance

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 16 October 1980 · page 21

To celebrate Habonim’s 40th Anniversary, a Dinner Dance will be held with the aim of bringing…

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