If it were at all possible to add more horsepower and octane to Verdi’s tour d’force Aida, Opera Australia’s rendition now playing at the Sydney Opera House has found a way. Director Davide Livermore and Conductor Lorenzo Passerini have risen…
As the numbers on the thermostat take a nosedive and the layers of outerwear multiply, our favorite chilled concoctions make room on many a menu for their warmer counterparts – the most classic of them all, of course, being mulled…
Infidelity and divorce usually aren’t great ingredients for a comedy, but Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Grand Horizons will have your sides hurting from laughter. Right from the curtain rise, the audience was snickering, which very quickly grew into all-out…
What happens when disaster affects an entire community? That’s the premise of Come From Away, the award-winning musical focusing on a small town in Newfoundland, Canada, whose residents unexpectedly have to take care of 6,500 visitors from around the world. …
Good shows are easy to review. Great performances are a little more complicated, but the phenomenal production of ONCE by the Darlinghurst Theatre Company has left me utterly speechless. Usually, in a review, I would put the call to action…
The words “American Psycho” and “the musical” don’t sound like they belong together in a sentence, let alone in a title. And yet, as with many things these days, it’s so wrong it’s right. The macabre and the fabulous. It’s…
In their first solo tour since 2019 (thanks again to our friend SARS-CoV-2), the Australian String Quartet (ASQ) has returned to Sydney with an incredible concert in the Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House featuring Bartók, Mendelssohn and Fischer. The ASQ,…
If a funny little man in the desert, demanding drawings of sheep and talking of roses means something to you, then I’m sure you will already have your tickets to the stage performance of The Little Prince at The Opera…
After a year of cancelled events, zoom trivia nights, and a severe lack of alcohol, going to GABS 2021 felt like a breath of fresh air. In Olympic Park’s massive showground in Sydney’s West, several beer, cider, and street food…
It’s a Saturday afternoon, the sun is out, and I’m enjoying a fizzy mimosa while listening to artfully mixed Afrobeats and happy pop music. Life is good. The venue? Sydney’s beloved bar-by-night, brunch-expert-by-day, ‘Since I Left You,’ during their bottomless…