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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1987

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Theatre Times Harrison and Colbert: an evening of sheer delight Aren’t We All?

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 February 1987 · page 19

Her Majesty's Theatre. Presented by Wilton Morley, Peter Davis and others. Directed by Clifford Williams. Cast: Rex Harrison,…

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Theatre Times Strindberg in place at...Vaucluse House

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 February 1987 · page 18

There is generally validity in saying that if a work, whether a play, ballet or opera has not been performed here for the best part of a century, if ever, there is a very…

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Theatre a life of paradox and struggle

Tribune · Wednesday 25 February 1987 · page 11

To Botany Bay on a Bondi Tram: A Celebration of Mary Gilmore, written and performed by Beverley Dunne. Northside…

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Pictures and Knesset nostalgia

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 February 1987 · page 13

Moshe Dayan leans across a modest, glass-covered table in an MKs’ cafeteria reminiscent of the old Tnuva lunch counters and argues…

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Theatre Times Top prospects as well as proven successes

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 February 1987 · page 16

We’ll have to wait until March 31 to see it, which is the only complaint we have about the Sydney Theatre…

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NUNSENSE Footbridge Theatre

Tharunka · Monday 2 March 1987 · page 34

Oh to be Catholic !! All the best writers were. And all the gay boys. Which brings us to Nunsense. For some reason I have a vision of the play's author. Its a gay guy from a catholic background who has suppressed an urge to…

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Monday After the Miracle Genesian Theatre

Tharunka · Monday 2 March 1987 · page 34

William Gibson is best known for his play The Miracle Worker which tells the story of the blind and deaf Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Monday After the Miracle finds Helen at Radcliff and…

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THEATRE Queensland's communist past

Tribune · Wednesday 4 March 1987 · page 15

Popular Front by Errol O'Neill would not impress Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the late Pie Iron Bob or the fans…

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Youth Scene Home Ball debs

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 March 1987 · page 22

The 1987 Sir Moses Montefiore Home Debutantes’ Ball will be held in the Hilton Hotel on Saturday night, March 28. Four of the girls who will make their debut are pictured here…

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Arts and Entertainment Twenty-five years of dance

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 March 1987 · page 19

BOTH Hassia Levy-Agron, its founder, and the Jerusalem Rubin Academy dance department have something to celebrate - the…

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Theatre Times “As Is” Tells It Exactly As It Is

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 March 1987 · page 18

As Is, William Hoffman’s 90-minute, one-act off-Broadway play, directed at the Seymour Centre for the Gordon/Frost organisation by John Tasker, is a good little play, well acted and staged…

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La lettre de Paris d’Eddy Batache THEATRE Le Silence éclaté, au Theatre de la Madeleine

Le Courrier Australien · Tuesday 10 March 1987 · page 10

Au théâtre de la Madeleine, "Le Silence éclaté" de Stephen Poliakoff nous ramène à l'époque de la Révolution russe; mais si les événements…

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Dance & eat the night away

Tribune · Wednesday 11 March 1987 · page 3

The press fund is some $400 behind what it was last year. That's certainly not good news, given the fact that we were some…

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Dance a Living Force

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 March 1987 · page 19

GURTT KADMAN, one of the great names in Israeli dance and surely the greatest in the development of folk dance, has reached the age of 90. She is…

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Youth Scene Home Ball debs

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 March 1987 · page 20

The 1987 Sir Moses Montefiore Home Debutantes’ Ball will be held in the Hilton Hotel on Saturday night, March 28. Four of the girls who will make their debut are pictured here…

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MUSIC Not quite the 'Great Dance'

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 March 1987 · page 36

Some travelling orchestras have a frightening schedule. The Royal Danish…

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Theatre Times Sure touch in Coward comedy

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 March 1987 · page 37

By any and all means buy a ticket to Peter Williams’ production of Noel Coward’s Private Lives (Opera House Playhouse) if you can…

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The Arts and Entertainment Desert Dallas Theatre Bavta by Miriam Kainy. Direction, Tom Levy. Habimah National Theatre

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 March 1987 · page 19

FOR WEEKS, Bavta has been in the news. But now, in production, we see that it is not nearly what it’s been built up to be by…

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Concert profits for UIA

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 March 1987 · page 25

A Tribute to Tchaikovsky concert at the Opera House on Sunday, March 29, will benefit the United Israel Appeal (UIA). The concert is being…

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Reviews Live Bands New Order Enmore Theatre, Friday 13th Feb

Tharunka · Monday 16 March 1987 · page 30

There are quite a few nerds around spinning crap with one-line devastating reports on the performance of this band live - yeah, they're really dead on stage, or I don't know why the band bothers…

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