Domingo concert
SYDNEY AUDIENCES will have only one opportunity to see world-famqus tenor Placido Domingo this year when he performs at the Sydney Entertainment…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1990
257 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 13
RUMOURS FootbridgeTheatre
Opening night of the Australian premier of Neil Simon's "Rumors - the crowd is huge and speckled with few familiar faces. The bell rings and everyone files into the theatre; so this is it - the play starts. what can we…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Reviews Theatre a Death in the Family New Theatre, Newtown
Written by Canadian writer, Sharon Pollock, and originally entitled 'Blood Relations', this is the true story of Lizzie Borden who, late last century, was accused and acquitted of the murder of her father and stepmother…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Pearls Before Swine Nuts Figtree Theatre
"Pearls Before Swine", the recent NUTS production was well worth seeing. To all those who missed out - commiserations. lt was a show that will become legendary within the walls of the Fig Tree Theatre. An amateur…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Talking Heads by Alan Bennett Ensemble Theatre
'Bed Among the Lentils' with Carol Willesee 'Soldiering On' with Lyn James 'Her Big Chance' with Jo-Anne Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Did she or didn't she A Death In The Family by Sharon Pollock, at the New Theatre, 542 King St Newtown to October 15
Playwright Sharon Pollock has used some skilful theatrical techniques to unravel a story within a story in the latest New…
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THE SUSAN Sperber Dance Academy will perform at Masada College’s Pelerman Centre on September 16, 3pm. Enquiries: 498-1187…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Klezmer band visits
INTERNATIONALLY renowned Klezmer Conservatory Band will visit Sydney on November 17, 8.45pm, at the Sydney State Theatre. Tickets on sale now. Also appearing Australia’s number one Jewish…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police make music with Moriah band
THE NSW Police Concert Band of 35 players was founded 94 years ago. The Moriah College High School (Bellevue Hill) Band is only six months old. Despite differences of age and experience, the two…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Pathos, comedy, sensitive insights THEATRE Talking Heads by Alan Bennett Directed by Sandra Bates Ensemble Theatre
TALKING HEADS is a suite of six monologues or, better, one-person playlets, deriving its group title from the medium for which English…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Couple of old pros THEATRE Farewell Brisbane Ladies by Doreen Clarke Directed by Di Drew Q Theatre, Penrith
FOLLOWING Graeme Brosnan’s largely successful farce The Government Investigator, the Q has chosen to present another piece set in the anachronistic…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Difficulty overcome in Havel play THEATRE The increased Difficulty of Concentration by Vaclav Havel Translated and directed by Katerina Ivak Belvoir Street, Downstairs
HAVEL IS now president of Czechoslovakia, or whatever it recently decided to call itself. He used to be a dissident playwright,…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Arts & Entertainment The Globe's the thing Actor Sam Wanamaker is passionately committed to rebuilding the Globe Theatre where Shakespeare originally performed his plays. Walt Secord caught up with him in Sydney
ALL THAT remained when Sam Wanamaker visited the original site of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London 40 years ago was a…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Klezmer Band Visits
INTERNATIONALLY renowned Klezmer Conservatory Band will perform in Sydney on November 17, 8.45pm, at the Sydney State Theatre. Tickets on sale now. Also appearing — Australia’s number one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Griffin Theatre is back
AFTER a YEAR in the theatrical wilderness, the Griffin Theatre Company is doing a phoenix — rising from the ashes of fiscal…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Domingo: voice of gold, body of steel OPERA Placido Domingo in concert with Julia Migenes Sydney Entertainment Centre
IN THE world of opera there are those who can sing, but can’t act; those who can act, but can’t sing; and those who can do neither. Placido…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Concert artist
BRITISH violinist Nigel Kennedy has withdrawn from his scheduled November tour with the ABC and his place is being taken by one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Contemporary Performance Theatre you can be part of
Woman in the Wall by Mickey Furuya, directed by Nigel Kellaway. A production of Sydney Front at the Performance Space, 199 Cleveland Street, Redfern, to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Powerhouse dance
RUTH GALENE’S Red Opal Dance Theatre will present a new work at the Powerhouse Museum from September 25 to October 13…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Travesty of artist’s life THEATRE Rome Tremble by Bill Harding Directed by Helmut Bakaitis Sydney Theatre Company The Wharf Theatre
THE PUBLICITY talks of “memories of one of history’s most passionate artists... the greatest diva of our century... painful, rocky,…
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