life/arts Huge talents in song and dance Theatre Hot Shoe Shuffle
DAVID ATKINS is a phenomenon of Australian show business: a pint-size dynamo, a diminutive Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly with a…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1992
240 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 12
Israeli’s view of The Planets Music Sydney Symphony Orchestra
COMPOSED between 1914 and 1917, Gustav Holst’s suite for large orchestra The Planets represents on the surface a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Variety of riches at Stables Theatre Shorts at the Stables
ROS HORIN, artistic director of the Griffin Theatre Company, resident at The Stables in Nimrod Street, has done an exceedingly good thing in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dance Tribute
A TRIBUTE in dance to modem dance pioneer Gertrud Bodenwieser marks her place in Australian theatrical history./14…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Titanic struggle lost Music Sydney Symphony Orchestra
THERE ARE many who would give their eye teeth to be able to celebrate a birthday by standing in front of a large orchestra conducting an important work. In the latest Meet the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →End-of-year Ball
The UIA and Wizo Zahav Ball is at the ANA International on December 31…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →life /arts Bawdy humour carries first play Theatre Sistergirl
REVIEWING Sistergirl from Perth, the Sydney Morning Herald's Angela Bennie said it was “an auspicious playwrighting debut... its…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Six Degrees of Separation John Guare Sydney Theatre Company, Drama Theatre, Opera House
I’m sorry to say that this play has an unbelievable plot unredeemed by interesting or enlightening character development. A well-heeled New York couple find themselves put upon by an uninvited guest, a so-called school friend of their sons; a con man called Paul. He…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Animal Farm George Orwell Adapted for the stage by Peter Hall Iron Cove Theatre, Rozelle
This is a happy, fun filled, ambitious production from Iron Cove. The cast of fifteen give all-they’ve-got to a long but entertaining…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →New dance studio
A STUDIO of modern dance has been opened in Glebe by new immigrant liana Rubinsztein. A modern dancer, teacher and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →life /arts Purgatory kept at bay Music Sydney Symphony Orchestra
THE HEAVENLY length of Schubert’s Symphony No 9 (Great C Major) often turns into purgatory well before the final great climax is reached. This is due, more often than…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →life /singles The boys in the band
TWO YEARS ago, when Danny Yezerski went to a family wedding, he made a decision. In his view, the bands available, although very talented, lacked the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JNF man has a ball with winning ticket
LONGSTANDING Sydney JNF worker Alec Polonsky recently visited Melbourne to attend his brother Jacob’s 100th birthday. Since Alec Polonsky is the father-in-law of former Jewish National Fund federal president Dr Lou Bernstein, it was not…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Impressive musical theatre Opera Foxy and Fahrenheit 451
REGRETTABLY, the Belvoir Street season of these two three-quarter-hour contemporary Australian operas (or pieces of musical theatre — I don’t want to be semantic…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Clearly between soap and legit drama Theatre Crystal Clear
CRYSTAL CLEAR is a long one-act piece or, if you will, a short full-length play without interval about a young man who is…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two late, strong pieces from Miller Theatre Danger—memory!
IN HIS autobiographical book Timebends — A Life (which I regard as essential reading for anyone interested in theatre, politics, the human condition or almost anything…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →arts/leisure Valler tribute Film Theatre Opera Music Television Radio
NOTED pianist Rachel Valler will be honoured at a recital sponsored by The Friends of the Israeli Philharmonic…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Swell, but hardly elegant Theatre a Swell Party
THE NIGHT I saw A Swell Party was not a partisan, claquish or sycophantish premiere, but strictly a GP house, full at that, and mostly from a breed that goes to live theatre rarely…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Un concert du Quator Ravel
Le renommé Quatuor Rave! donnera un concert de musique de chambre ie samedi 14 novembre à 20H dans le "Great Hail" de University House à Canberra. Au programme: Haydn, Beethoven et…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →arts/entertainment Exciting theatre Theatre Shorts at the Stables Ii
ON BALANCE, I am inclined to think this second, completely new bill of one-act plays at The Stables in the Griffin’s Shorts season is even more…
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