Year of variety, excitement THEATRE
Alison Cleaver rates mention for erasing memories of previous performances of the New York (incidentally Jewish) TV writer, compulsive correspondent…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1991
214 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 11
Vic women regain b'ball title
VICTORIA regained the Nita and Brian Kino Shield for women’s basketball at the 58th Australian Maccabi Sports…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Life/Been and Seen Great Dance Bash
MORETHAN 1000 people packed the Darling Harbour Convention Centre’s Banquet Hall for the Jewish Communal Appeal's…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →NSTE concert
NORTH SHORE Temple Emanuel’s major community project — its Senior Citizens’ Concert — will take place on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Archive needs synagogue pictures
THE ARCHIVE of Australian Judaica is appealing to the community to donate photographs of local synagogues…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Puppet theatre rides again
EARLY last year a van full of the imaginative puppets created by Phillip Einfeld for the Bondi Puppet Theatre was stolen from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gillies makes Stretch almost amiable Theatre a Stretch of the Imagination by Jack Hibberd Directed by Denis Moore Sydney Theatre Company & Melbourne Theatre Company The Wharf
JACK HIBBERD graduated in medicine in 1964, wrote the promising play White with Wire Wheels in 1967, the popular Oz farce…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The winning ways of a rock king THEATRE Go Cat Go Glenn Shorrock with Toni Allayialis, Carol Starkey and The Eddys Directed by Graeme Blundell The Hills Centre
I’M THE one who rated the Australian Opera’s Lohengrin among the best shows of 1990, remember? So a sort of big-scale rock cabaret in the outer…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →SUMMER Sale Holiday dance workshop
THESE holidays the Susan Sperber Dance Academy will conduct a dance workshop to develop and further children’s knowledge and understanding of…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →MELBOURNE Avec le Théâtre français de Melbourne
Le Théâtre français de Melbourne terminé l'année 1990 en beauté avec Le petit cabaret chez qui s'est tenu du 2 novembre au 4…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Steaming: more than a pot-boiler THEATRE Steaming by Nell Dunn Directed by Peter Kingston Theatre Royal
VETERAN journalist and ABC film guru John Hinde once lamented that men love women and women love women, ergo no-one…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Bran Nue Dae, joyous night THEATRE Bran Nue Dae Musical by Jimmy Chi and Kuckles (Band) Directed by Andrew Ross Festival of Sydney in association with Performing Lines Limited Parramatta Riverside Theatre (Seymour Centre Jan 22-Feb 9)
LET ME say straight away and without qualification that this Aboriginal musical out of Broome, one of the hits of last year’s Perth…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Hamlet tragically flawed THEATRE Hamlet The Bell Shakespeare Company Showground
JOHN POLSON played Hamlet; Hamlet lost. John Poison runs the gamut of emotions from A to B…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →You might as well enjoy it THEATRE You Might As Well Live Written and directed by Rodney Fisher Starring Bernadette Robinson Marian Street Theatre
IN HER short and brilliant career Melbourne’s Bernadette Robinson has shone in musicals, cabaret and opera…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Pas de concert de Noël pour nos soldats dans le désert Les Saoudiens ont interdit Eddy Mitchell
Le Noël de nos soldats en Arabie Saoudite devait être constitué par deux concerts d'Eddy Michell,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Arts Mediaeval Jewish music in festival concert
WHILE popular music strives to keep pace with modern culture, early music buffs are turning the clock backwards — to revive the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Outlook Pictures of a faith
TWO YESHIVAH boys sit, discussing the Talmud. In a sea of black hats and long beards, a little girl peers out at the camera, quizzical and wary amongst the men…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Requiem disappoints MUSIC Lauda's Mostly Mozart Australian Chamber Orchestra Sydney Philharmonia Choir Opera House
I WOULD LIKE to say that the concluding concert in this series was a thrilling and moving experience brought about by a performance of…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Toll not the bell for this Hamlet THEATRE Hamlet a Bell Shakespeare Company Directed by John Bell Sydney Showground
ANY REPORTS of the demise of the Bell Company’s first presentation, Hamlet, are at worst premature. Indeed, when I shared the…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Arts Buddy (almost) makes rock convert MUSICAL Buddy The Buddy Holly Story Book by Alan Janes Directed by Rob Bettinson Her Majesty’s Theatre
BUDDY is big, bright, rollicking entertainment, a celebration, with only a momentary touch of the maudlin, of the brief career of Texan…
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