arts A case of anything goes THEATRE Closer
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 9 January 1998 · page 24
THE Sydney Theatre Company generously scheduled the Australian premiere season of young British writer Patrick Marber's Closer to start at the Wharf at 6pm on New Year’s Eve and invited first-nighters to stay on after the…
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The Australian Jewish News · Friday 9 January 1998 · page 14
VAUCLUSE Public School Year 4-6 Hebrew pupils sang at the school’s end-of-year Hebrew and Italian concert. The focus was discovering personal roots and identifying with Israel…
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The Australian Jewish News · Friday 9 January 1998 · page 13
PLAY School concerts for the kids, three shows February 22, $5. Bookings: 9365 9900…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Post Soviet music - making Symphony Concert Russian National Orchestra
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 16 January 1998 · page 30
FOLLOWING the Israel Philharmonic’s first concert in Sydney, the Herald critic wrote-glowingly about the visual and auditory benefits of the MPO’s “different”…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Elegance, wit THEATRE An Ideal Husband
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 16 January 1998 · page 29
AN ideal Husband was a London success in the same year, 1895, Las The Importance of Being Earnest. Tragically, Wilde wrote no…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Steel City — son of Tap Dogs DANCE Steel City
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 16 January 1998 · page 30
HAVING created a runaway success in Tap Dogs, with at least two companies performing it overseas at the moment, Dein Perry must have thought long…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Sydney Festival Round-up Australian family saga THEATRE Cloudstreet
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 16 January 1998 · page 30
THIS saga of two Perth families living in one vast, ramshackle house, has been adapted from multi-award-winner Tim Wintonâs novel of the same name. Those who…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Saved by the Irish humour THEATRE The Leenane Trilogy
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 16 January 1998 · page 30
HERE are three normal-length plays by Martin McDonagh, set in County Galway. I opted to see them in sequence on one day, 1pm to about 10.30pm, with intervals, and…
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The Australian Jewish News · Friday 16 January 1998 · page 17
PLAY School concerts for the kids, three shows February 22. S5. Bookings: 9365 9900…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →arts Brilliant ENSEMBLE production THEATRE Sanctuary
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 23 January 1998 · page 27
THE Ensemble's Sandra Bates has given us a simply brilliant production of David Williamson's 1994 (but since revised) Sanctuary in which, to use his own words, "moral…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Enigma of fallen idols THEATRE Complicity
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 23 January 1998 · page 28
WHY would an actor such as Gielgud or a pianist such as Arrau, or indeed an eminent Sydney judge, risk so much to…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →What's Not to Like? Dance Tharp!
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 30 January 1998 · page 29
ONE of the Sydney Festival highlights was the brief season of modern dance under the somewhat immodest title…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Genius or Hokum? Theatre Moby Dick
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 February 1998 · page 28
NIGEL Triffitt's Moby Dick, now playing the Drama Theatre at the Opera House for the Sydney Theatre Company may be a work of genius, or a gigantic piece of…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →THEATRE Nathan le sage, à la Comédie française
Le Courrier Australien · Tuesday 10 February 1998 · page 21
L'été dernier, Sami Frey avait créé l'événement au festi va I d'Avignon avec "Nathan le sage". A son tour, la Comédie française inscrit à son répertoire la…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →israeli dance
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 February 1998 · page 17
ISRAELI dancing with choreographer Gadi Bitton, Hakoah, February 24, S20/S30 family. Martin 9369 3784…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Exile Theatre
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 February 1998 · page 27
I AM a Ph.D student at the University of Vienna (currently based in Zurich) and I am writing my thesis on German-speaking exile theatre in Australia. I will be in Australia in…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Home to Neil Simon THEATRE They're Playing Our Song
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 February 1998 · page 30
IT HAD been far too long since I'd seen a Neil Simon piece. So, it was a joy, a warm-fuzzy homecoming, to sit in the congenial Q Theatre, Penrith, and be instantly engulfed by…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Why look at life THEATRE Life in a Quiet House
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 February 1998 · page 30
NOT FOR the first time have we in this fair, democratic society been given the opportunity to see plays from Czechoslovakia under the generic label,…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Fine start MUSIC Australian Chamber Orchestra
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 February 1998 · page 29
THE Australian Chamber Orchestra's season opener demonstrated the ensemble's consistent success in making adventurous programing deeply satisfying. The ACO embarks next…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Breaking the silence THEATRE Better Don't Talk
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 February 1998 · page 30
THE hugely telented Naava Piatka—actress, playwright, lyricist, composer — has been one of the most heavily publicised Jewish artists to grace these…
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