Big smiles in Jewish comedy THEATRE Isn’t It Romantic
THERE IS no question-mark in the title of Pulitzer Prize-winner Wendy Wasserstein’s delightful little play, largely about generations and women’s attitudes and…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1993
231 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 12
The human and fallible face of WASPs THEATRE The Old Boy
G.R. GURNEY, who spent 25 years teaching American literature and the humanities at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) before becoming a full-time…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Queer Screen Dance Party
In the last couple of years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of gay and lesbian film and video work, but its exhibition and reception has been mainly confined to specialist…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One Full Moon Wales 1991; dir: Endaf Emlyn; dist: Gil Serine Pictures; rt: 98 mins
It's like finding some costume jewellery in the creek when you are kids. The jewels are cheap, scratched and studded with the mud of a dark life other than the creek-cool privacy of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Panama Deception (USA 1992, dir: Barbara Trent,, dist: Gil Serine Pictures, rt: 90 mins)
The government and military we came to know and loathe over Vietnam in the sixties is alive and, if not exactly well, still in business, as this film about the US invasion of Panama…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The CASOC Ball
Never before in our life times have so many come together. Never before haver so many wanted to. First ever, inaugral, unprecedented and generally virginal, the CASOC Ball entered the history books as the place to be…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Stage Isn’t It Romantic the Kent Street Theatre Season: 17 APRIL - 29 MAY
It is one thing to have the right ideological viewpoints, and often something quite different as to how one ends up living one's life. This is the premise of…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →INXS in concert
There they were, INXS is concert: a lot of people, a small roundhouse and a remarkably un Australian band. Mr Hutchinson…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Drug Squad Visits Led Zeppelin Concert
Tharunka Editors Guilty This was the verdict handed down by Mr. E. J. Gibson, S.M. at the Sydney Central Court of Petty Session following months of waiting and speculation by all parties involved in the legal battle surrounding…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Sinew and fire from the SSO Music Sydney Symphony Orchestra
PRIDE OF place in this review goes to the administrative staff of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for its herculean efforts in relocating this concert to the Town Hall due to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Laughs in the' 20s THEATRE Canaries Sometimes Sing
THE MARIAN Street Theatre has taken us back to the late ’20s for a night of hearty laughter, beautifully acted and directed, a delicious piece of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gilding the Honeysuckle Rose Musical Theatre Ain’t Misbehavin'
RETURNING to Sydney after six years, this 1978 Broadway show, which won three Tony Awards including best musical (which is hard to believe on the basis of the o…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Joseph conquers critical prejudices Musical Theatre Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
I CAN’T help it. My upbringing conditioned me to be suspect of any attempt to popularise biblical stories through p…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Le Courrier Des Sportifs Basket-ball Limoges, champions d'Europe des dubs
Le Limoges CSP a écrit le 15 avril Tune des plus belles pages de l'histoire du sport français en accomplissant l'exploit, inespéré lors de son arrivé Athènes, de devenir champion d'Europe des…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →War and Peace — Bernstein fashion MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
THERE’S usually a sound reason for the non-performance of a piece of music, even if its author is a recognised genius. So it is with the Symphony No 30 (K202) by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Off-beat, touching love story THEATRE Talley's Folly
IT IS 1944. Matt is an introverted 42-year-old Jewish accountant carrying deep emotioned wounds from the persecution his family suffered in Europe long before…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stage Aint Misbehavin the Fats Waller Musical Show” Theatre Royal 29th April- 29th May
FATS WALLER is one of the great jazz legends. He was a singer, composer, piano player and outrageous personality, whose prime was in the 'swinging'…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Dance photographs
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC work of Elaine Pelot Kitchener is on display at the headquarters of the Sydney Dance Company until the end of this month…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Empire and republic meet with music MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
IN THE much praised current Meet the Music series, the latest concert offered a clever mix of music of empire and republicanism. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wrublewski: top b'ball post
LEADING sports administrator Mike Wrublewski has been named head of delegation of the Australian men’s under-23 basketball…
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