350,000 at concert
Some 350,000 people crowded into Tel Aviv’s Yarkcon Park Saturday to hear opera star Placido Domingo and violinist Itzhak…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1987
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Top violinist Sydney concerts
Internationally acclaimed Romanianborn violinist Robert Davidovici, will arrive in Sydney next week to perform two concerts at the Opera House with…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Theatre Times Northside’s New Season
After five successful years (from bankruptcy to fiscal security, director John Krummel assured us), the Northside Theatre Company at the Marian Street Theatre, Killara, is sticking to a policy of quality entertainment,…
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A concert believed to be the first entirely devoted to Jewish baroque music will be presented at the Temple Beth Israel on August 30. It will feature a vocal and…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Book Theatre Reviews Blood Relations by David Malouf Sydney Theatre Company at the Sydney Opera House until end July only
Blood Relations revolves around the figure of Willy McGregor, a self-made man, mining czar and corporate pirate. A mysterious figure, he lives as a semi-recluse in a tropical retreat In North/Western Australia. With Willy are…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The Seymour Group Future Tense Iii 10Th Anniversary Concert
One aim of this concert was to summarises a faction of the Group’s work over last ten years. This concert made me regret only having become aware of the Seymour Group this year…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →THEATRE William Chidley: fruits nuts and "tarts"
This play is based on the life of William Chidley, a well-known eccentric who frequented Sydney's Domain at…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Winslow Boy Is Superb Theatre
Terence Rattigan once said: he wrote for the typical London theatregoer, whom he saw as “a nice, respectable, middle-class, middle-aged, maiden lady with time on her hands and money to help…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Theatre Times Looking beyond the easy laughs
Ron Elisha, Australia’s only real, live Jewish playwright (and a fine writer he is) was quoted by Jonathan Harlen in last week’s AJT as saying one of his plays took two and a half years to write…
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Urban Fairies and Other Stories, produced and performed by The One Extra Dance Company. Played at the Seymour Centre,…
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The Belvoir Street Theatre in Surry Hills, Sydney, is hosting A Month of Sundays -- four Sunday benefit concerts -- during August. Tribune readers will be too late to attend the first featuring Artists in Direct Support (AIDS). AIDS is committed to encouraging and directing the involvement of artists in raising funds for AIDS education and programs, and undertaking projects to change community attitudes…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Theatre Time Fine acting in not so fine theatrical piece
Fine acting made visits in the past week to The Wharf and the Belvoir Street Theatre rewarding. At both places the plays were nothing if not…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →La lettre de Paris d’Eddy Batache THEATRE Esther et Antigone
C'est au théâtre de la Madeleine que revit tous les soirs l'intransigeante héroïne d'Anouilh, sous les de Dolorès Torrès, face à l'admirable…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Loungeroom meeting starts ball rolling for Jewish tenpins
A meeting in the loungeroom of a Bellevue Hill home, almost 25 years ago to the day, led to the formation of one of Australia’s leading Jewish sports clubs. On Saturday, August 15…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Theatre Times Jerry’s Girls top night out
For sheer entertainment it would be hard to top Jerry’s Girls, now playing or J.C. Williamson and Gordon/Frost at the Footbridge…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →THEATRE In the thick of children's services
Sidetrack Theatre's new Art and Working Life production, Boom Baby Boom, is about all who've been in the thick of children's services... including the kids. There are two realities in the play-- the adult reality of daily life and the world of the "babies", comic commentators who tell-it-like-it-is…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THEATRE Another kind of humor Wogs Out of Work, currently playing at the Atheneum Theatre, Melbourne. Reviewed
Wogs Out of Work was written especially for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Theatre Times Director gives new life to restoration comedy
Thanks to director Neil Armfield’s skill and good judgement in aiming his production squarely at today’s audiences rather than striving to recreate a past style, William Wycherley’s Restoration comedy or farce, The Country Wife, is a delightful romp in the Drama Theatre, Opera House, under the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →THEATRE Reflections on violence
Ostraka, performed by Entr'acte Theatre at the Wharf Studio, Walsh Bay, Sydney, from August 18-29. Reviewed by…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THEATRE Salute to an indomitable woman
Each year Margaret Barr - a choreographer who tackles themes and ideas usually dismissed as "unsuitable" for dance - choreographs a new dance. This year it's Pueblo de Maiz, derived from I Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala. Margaret describes the dancedrama as "a salute to a brave, indomitable and amazing young…
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