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January 14, 2021
Classical Music, Festivals, Sydney Festival, Theatre
news

Peter Freedman donates $5 million to Sydney Festival

The RØDE Founder and Chairman, who made headlines last year with his purchase of Kurt Cobain’s ‘MTV Unplugged’ guitar, has given the Festival its largest ever philanthropic donation.

June 2, 2020
Dance, Sydney Festival, Theatre
news

Sydney Festival announces new Director

Australian producer and former dancer Olivia Ansell will take up the position in November and present her first festival in January 2022.

January 23, 2020
Sydney Festival
Live Review

Review: Tenebrae (Sydney Festival)

An impressive Sydney debut by British choir Tenebrae at the Sydney Festival.

January 22, 2020
Classical Music, Dance, Sydney Festival
Live Review

Review: Romances Inciertos, Un Autre Orlando (Sydney Festival)

A witty, hypnotic response to Virginia Woolf's Orlando.

January 10, 2020
Sydney Festival, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Double Delicious (Sydney Festival)

A lush and evocative series of skilfully narrated performances, in Contemporary Asian Australian Performance's Double Delicious

January 29, 2019
Sydney Festival, Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Iliad Out Loud (Sport for Jove, Sydney Festival)

A sovereign adaptation by William Zappa that shows us just how much war impoverishes the human spirit.

January 24, 2019
Sydney Festival, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Beware of Pity (Schaubühne Berlin and Complicité, Sydney Festival)

A bold, stark staging that draws you into an intense, emotionally complex, gripping production.

January 21, 2019
Sydney Festival, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Brett and Wendy… A Love Story Bound by Art (Theatre of Image, Sydney Festival)

There are some stunning dance scenes, and plenty of biographical information, but overall the production doesn't quite take flight.

January 17, 2019
Sydney Festival, Theatre
Live Review

Review: In the Heights (Sydney Opera House)

Vibrant performances drive Lin-Manuel Miranda’s heartwarming In the Heights.

January 16, 2019
Sydney Festival, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Counting and Cracking (Belvoir St Theatre and Co-Curious)

An exciting, ambitious new Australian play, in six languages, that unites the personal and political in powerful, moving fashion.

January 14, 2019
Sydney Festival, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (2b Theatre Company, Sydney Festival)

A moving story about two Romanian Jews seeking refuge in Canada, spliced with exuberant klezmer songs.

January 13, 2019
Sydney Festival, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Shànghǎi MiMi (Sydney Festival)

The Paris of the East glitters seductively in Sydney's West.

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