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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1983

175 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 9

Had a Ball at the Ball

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 January 1983 · page 17

Maccabi’s 50th Carnival ball last Thursday week was without a doubt the…

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Yeshiva Concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 January 1983 · page 6

Students of the Yeshiva Flood Street Kindergarten entertained parents, grandparents and friends at a…

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NSW Uni: concerts to spare this year

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 January 1983 · page 14

Music is obviously alive and well at the University of NSW with its chamber music ensemble (the UNSW Ensemble), the Collegium Musicum choir and the University's opera group all planning concerts this year…

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Theatre Times Bright Future for Theatre

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 January 1983 · page 9

We had planned to go home early from the Festive Season party and do a Dionysian analysis of the past year’s theatre. You know, our personal…

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Carnival Times Veteran hoopsters really had a ball

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 January 1983 · page 14

The result really didn’t matter, perhaps they should have “arranged” a draw, but the veteran basketballers really had a “ball” in…

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Mikvah concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 January 1983 · page 6

Junior girls of the Yeshiva recently presented a night of musical entertainment to raise funds for the Sydney…

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Annual dinner dance

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 January 1983 · page 15

Hannan and Mary Drory with Jack and Anne Fooks celebrate at the second Mount Sinai College dinner dance held recently at Shalom College. Around 150 people attended the function, the high point of the year for the hard-working Parents’ Association…

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Theatre Times Ladies in the shvitz

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 January 1983 · page 12

Ladies’ Night In A Turkish Bath was the title of another entertainment, and it would be apt for Steaming, too, British writer Nell Dunn’s first and highly successful stage play, now playing a return season in Sydney (this time at the Royal)…

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Theatre Times Fields of Heaven Not So Heavenly!

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 January 1983 · page 13

The Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Dorothy Hewett’s The Man From Mukinupin was one of the more important events of recent years in Australian theatre. This was because the…

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Social Scene Israeli chemist turns to acting with Dutch Theatre!

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 January 1983 · page 17

Israeli actress Yaffa Perek is a remarkable young woman with an unusual beginning in the theatre. She gained a Masters…

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Close V’ball

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 27 January 1983 · page 20

The NSW men’s volleyball team is taking consolation in the fact that they took a game…

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Theatre Times Matters of judgement of Sydney’s theatres

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 27 January 1983 · page 13

On the one hand a little theatre chooses to give an airing to a play of no great dramatic merit, but of real social significance (and of special interest to Jewish people), while one of the major forces in Sydney’s performing arts arena opts for a no doubt expensive…

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Theatre Times Island fun plus ghosts for kids on holidays!

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 27 January 1983 · page 12

Holiday theatrical entertainment for children ranges from the grotesque (have you tried Hyde Park during the Festival?) to the fairly boring, and these days rather boorish, attempts at traditional pantomime…

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New Theatre

Tribune · Wednesday 2 February 1983 · page 12

A review of New Theatre's production of Ronald Raygun in the Antipodes was not ready in time for inclusion in this week's issue of…

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Home Ball revives ‘debs’ tradition

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 February 1983 · page 6

Twenty teenagers will make their debut at the 1983 Montefiore Home Ball next month. The ball, long an…

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Theatre Times Four actresses impress in a house of sisters!

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 February 1983 · page 17

Forty-eight hours after seeing the Actors Theatre of Louisville in My Sister In This House at the Seymour Centre as part of the Festival of Sydney, we cannot shake from our mind’s eye the images of the four actresses…

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Oscar -- missing president Ron Raygun in the Antipodes a new musical revue by Stafford Sanders, Tom Bridges and Peter Kemp. Directed by Fay Mokotow. Playing at Sydney's New Theatre (See What's On for details)

Tribune · Wednesday 9 February 1983 · page 12

The year is 1986, and that Oscar-missing president Ron Raygun, together with sidekick George Gosh (Superspook) sets…

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Home Ball debutantes

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 February 1983 · page 15

Twenty debutantes will be presented at this year's Monteflore Home Ball at the Chevron Hotel on Saturday, March 19. Danielle Blackman, the 16-year-old daughter of Mr…

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Theatre Times Don’t miss Louisville next time

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 February 1983 · page 16

Back to the Seymour Centre to see the Actors Theatre of Louisville almost at the end of its…

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Musica Viva concert met pianist Gerard Willems

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 11 February 1983 · page 3

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