Mount Sinai end of year concert
COMMUNAL stalwart Hans Mueller addressed a capacity audience in the Moriah Harry Triguboff Auditorium…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1996
182 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 10
THEATRE Ningali Warm persuasion
YOU’RE born under a tree near Fitzroy Crossing in The Kimberleys. You know only your own tribal language. Your family is dispersed and you find…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →A major play THEATRE Pentecost
AS S WE know, Pentecost means fiftieth day, and in Judaism it is Shavuoth; in Christianity, the seventh Sunday after Easter, marking the descent of the Holy…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Festival show more illusion than magic THEATRE Stars of illusion
THE Entertainment Centre, even in lyric format is definitely not an intimate venue, and the Sydney Festival's production Stars of Illusion, though…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Bizarre romp THEATRE Neville's Island
THE action, 30-year-old writer Tim Firth tells us, takes place on Rampsholme Island, Derwent Water, in The Lake District, England. Four businessmen are on a…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Exponent of Viennese theatre dies OBITUARY
ONE OF Sydney’s best-known exponents of Viennese theatre and promoters of Viennese culture died suddenly this week. Karl Bittman, 84, is believed to have suffered a…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →A masterly performance THEATRE The Steward of Chistendom
YOU don’t have to be Irish to appreciate the greatness of Sebastian Barry’s play at the Seymour Centre, or the greatness of Donal McCann in the role of the…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →THEATRE Un mari idéal, au théâtre Antoine
A mi-chemin entre l'intrigue policière et la comédie de moeurs, le "Mari idéal", d'Oscar Wilde, a été adroitement adapté par Pierre Laville, qui en a éliminé les références trop démodées…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Coûfontaine, au théâtre du Rond-Point
On n'en connaissait, sur scène, que le premier volet, "L'otage", où Sygne de Coûfontaine affronte Toussaint Turelure: un monde qui n'est plus, face cette race nouvelle, issue de la Révolution…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →First Knight (Columbia Pictures)
I FREELY admit it. Any movie featuring Sean Connery has my vote, no questions asked. In First Knight, Connery plays the legendary King Arthur with all the dignity, grace and gentle…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Quiz show (Hollywood Pictures)
JOHN Turturro delivers a star performance as Herbie Stempel, the Jewish guy from Queens who causes mayhem when he is unceremoniously asked to “take a dive” and break his…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Premiere of Part's new work MUSIC Australian Chamber Orchestra
IF THE program of modern works performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra last-Thursday, at the newly renovated SCEGGS Darlinghurst…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Tiresome Tankard DANCE Songs with Mara
THE much-vaunted Mery Tankard Australian Dance Theatre rarely comes to Sydney. Its hour fifteen-minutes Songs with Mara a…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Impossible task THEATRE Live Acts on Stage
BEFORE curtain-up as it were, I asked my neighbour, who had read the script, what we might be in for. “A thousand years of Greek mythology in 90…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Shakespeare mimed? THEATRE Veronia
A DELAIDE'S Magpie Theatre is here at Gen Street with its extraordinary and wonderful production, Verona, based on Romeo and Juliet, but…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Bard true to title THEATRE As You Like It
RADICALLY changing the period setting of Shakespeare’s play is a dangerous business, often resulting in anomalies and anachronisms; but there is no such…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →THEATRE "Art" et "L'homme du hasard", de Yasmina Reza
YasminaReza a connu, avec "Art", un succès prodigieux qui l'a projetée au premier plan des auteurs dramatiques. Ecrit auparavant, "L'homme du hasard" met en…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Theatre of the absurd
Woollahra Council’s meeting on Monday night was pure, political theatre…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All Gershwin, all class MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra M The Music of George Gershwin
SIR William Southgate’s energetic and charismatic direction throughout this all-Gershwin performance was undoubtedly its…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Love? Valour? Compassion? THEATRE Love! Valour! Corripassion!
I’VE given the title question marks instead of prized-winning author Terrence McNally’s exclamation points, because I am not sure whether he is serious or satirical…
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