Sydney has it all: The Opera House. The Harbour Bridge. The icons are known world-wide, but what else is there to explore in the most famous city in Australia? In partnership with Expedia.com.au, The Plus Ones have designed your ultimate…
The Comedy Store in Moore Park was booming with laughter when Jackie Loeb and Gretel Killeen took the stage to share their views on young people. The whole show was a mixed bag of different topics, not always staying focused…
Thirty prancing ‘horses’ will hit Sydney pavements this week as part of American performance artist Nick Cave’s first major project in Australia. The seminal work, titled HEARD·SYD, has been performed in Texas, New York and Detroit, with a few tweaks made…
As a long time Sydney-sider, Chefs Gallery at Regent Place in the CBD is one of my go-to places for Chinese cuisine. It has all the hallmarks of the good restaurant: consistent quality, reasonable prices, and an open kitchen (read…
Sydney-siders, the next time you visit the Hunter Valley, whether it be for a relaxing romantic retreat, a tasting tour of the vineyards or a music festival in the vines, make sure you top off your experience by dining at…
Bell Shakespeare Company’s latest showing of Othello is well worth going to see this season, whether you consider yourself a bit of a Shakespeare aficionado or quite the opposite. Take myself and my plus-one, for example. I grew up going…
The word of the night at Cirque du Soleil’s new show, ‘KOOZA’, was ‘no’. As in: ‘No, that’s not possible’. ‘No, they might fall’. ‘No, I can’t believe they can do that’. But this is Cirque du Soleil. It is possible;…
Last night Sydney Dance Company premiered their latest program, Untamed, to a packed-to-the-rafters Roslyn Packer Theatre, which at the close, spontaneously combusted in applause and standing ovation. The first half of the program sees the return of Wildebeest, a piece…
When my journalist daughter, Alicia, called to invite me to go with her to the Bobby Darin musical Dream Lover at the Lyric Theatre, I accepted eagerly – so eagerly that I even offered to write the review for her…
As lights dimmed in the grand concert hall of the Sydney Opera House, an immediate hush of audience chatter allowed for the residual sounds of orchestral preparation to be heard. With the venue at full capacity, the anticipation of hearing…