Ezra concert
THE audience at the Great Synagogue for Ezra’s concert last Sunday thoroughly enjoyed the performances by the Kiss…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts
Pictures, dances & concerts, 1993
231 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 12
Committed MUSIC Concert in aid of Ezra
THERE ISN'T a better way of raising funds for an important cause than through the medium of music which elevates and uplifts the soul as well as the bank balance. Ezra — in this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ACE shows depth of dance talent DANCE Imprint
THE recently formed Australian Choreographic Ensemble (ACE) shows in its new program, Imprint, at the Enmore Theatre, something of the depth of dance talent in Australia and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →From comedy to cloy THEATRE The Garden of Grandaughters
THE COMING of Stephen Sewell’s latest play was heralded from Melbourne with quotes from disastrous reviews. But early in the first act of The Garden of Granddaughters at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Need for professional assistance in festival THEATRE Moriah College
SYDNEY University’s Alan Hendrie last week judged his fifth Moriah College Drama Festival, an annual competition in which students of the college’s four houses direct, stage and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Joy of discovery MUSIC Australian Chamber Orchestra
ONE OF the wonderful things about music, and being a music critic, is the joy of discovery; in this case of works by a neglected composer of yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another Ball to Bash all Balls
THE United Israel Appeal’s Ball to Bash all Balls will return this year as The Ball to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →After bridging, gap remains THEATRE The Gap
BY THE time this review is read, The Gap will have finished its premiere season, which has drawn capacity audiences to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Promise fulfilled at Marian Street THEATRE The Promise (My Poor Marat)
The Marian Street Theatre has taken a sharp turn away from what some regarded as too-lightweight comedies, and is now offering a near-contemporary…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jackson concert switch to please ultra-Orthodox
Jerusalem: A MUCH-anticipated Michael Jackson concert has been rescheduled from a Saturday night to a Monday at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Orlando ... a leap and a dance, a hop and a skip . . . something of the essence of vast stretches of time
Sally Potter, who came to Australia ten years ago with her very experimental feature The Gold Diggers, came back this year to the Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals with Orlando, her seductively beautiful work based on Virginia Woolf's novel of the same name…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dance duo’s new theatre language
“WHAT message do you want to leave for eternity? State your name and number clearly at the sound of the beep.” This is just a sample of the creativity of Karen Pearlman and Richard Allen whose production…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Totally satisfying theatre Massive novel as stage gem THEATRE The Idiot
WHAT, you might well ask, is one of Australia’s pre-eminent directors doing at the little, partially converted church or church hall that serves as the Crossroads…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Theatre Looking Through a Glass Onion
"The Beatles had 'Rock 'n' Roll' and when it came to cryptic messages sugarcoated and recycled to win mass appeal, the combination of John Lennon and Paul…
Continued on Trove, page 55 →Suzanne Vega State Theatre 2-7-93
"Any woman who can sing, write songs, and play guitar, is sexy as far as I’m concerned." My friend would no doubt have been in…
Continued on Trove, page 56 →Pastoral idyll MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
BENEFICENT is a word which conjures up Heinz Waliberg’s reading of the Pastoral Symphony No. 6 by Beethoven; he really made one feel he was out on a trail, imbibing nature’s…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Theatre exposes corruption
AS THE son of a Holocaust survivor, actor/director John Rado said he is inspired by plays that deal with and expose human injustices…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Different view of brilliant show THEATRE Looking Through a Glass Onion
SINCE the birth at the Tilbury Hotel, Woolloomooloo, of this music and chat reflection of (not on) John Lennon’s sad life, it has achieved interstate success and has grown…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THEATRE L’Avare, aux Bouffes-Parisiens
Le tandem, qui naguère avait valu à "Voltaire-Rousseâu" un succès retentissant, se retrouve au service Molière. Mais cette fois, Jean-Paul Farré incame Haipagon, tandis que Jean-Luc Moreau tire les ficel…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Arts Notes Dance visit
ONE OF Israel’s most exciting dance groups, the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company,…
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