Review: 2019 Season Opening Gala (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
The SSO goes wild in a festive season opening gala to mark the start of David Robertson's final year.
The SSO goes wild in a festive season opening gala to mark the start of David Robertson's final year.
An immersive dance-theatre work filled with drama and intrigue.
The indomitable Miriam Margolyes shines as the real-life vagrant who lived in playwright Alan Bennett’s front yard for 15 years.
Geraldine Hakewill is heartbreaking as LV, with Caroline O’Connor in fine form as her bulldozer of a mother.
A rich portrait of a girls’ indoor soccer team that captures all the awkwardness, pain and joy of soon to be shed adolescence.
Written during the most exasperating period of his compositional career, Bernstein’s opera A Quiet Place reflected all of his then current excesses.
A ghost ship worth catching before it sails away later this week.
The ACO and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir interweave Bach and Pärt with ethereal beauty.
Emotional desolation conveyed by the dancers in an exhausting, relentless piece.
A seemingly humble two-hander from America takes on the world, teasing, prodding and ultimately assaulting audiences’ unease about race.
A compulsive piece of edgy dance, stunningly performed.
Experimental and improvised music festival Audible Edge has retained much of its rough-and-ready community origins, whilst growing in scale and significance.
A sovereign adaptation by William Zappa that shows us just how much war impoverishes the human spirit.