First of all, I must say the location for Heineken Saturday was incredible. Right in front of our own iconic Bondi Beach. While standing on the top deck of the VIP lounge, I could see the surfers riding the waves….
Over four nights, transitioning from November to December, The Sydney Symphony Orchestra brought ‘Summertime’ to Sydney with a presentation of George Gershwin’s great American folk opera Porgy and Bess in the Concert Hall of the Opera House. What a grand…
My wife and I are not dancers. We shuffle through our moves at weddings and gingerly stretch at pilates. Our daughter Alicia, on the other hand, is a ballerina with years of training in jazz and contemporary dance, who salsas…
Bondi beach selfies – champagne in hand with a sunset backdrop – are a tried and tested formula for Instagram hits. Add in a croquet mallet and you’re sure to score more than a few extra double taps, courtesy of…
As part of the Graphic Festival 2016, George Lucas’s 1970s seminal cult classic film THX 1138 was rescored live by Asian Dub Foundation. The audience witnessed something completely fresh and different – this version of the score had never before been performed…
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…
Australia may be a long way from America and Europe (and just about everywhere else in the world), but that doesn’t stop the world’s best bands visiting on a regular basis. Luckily, there are some fantastic live music Sydney venues to…
The poet W.H. Auden once said ‘No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible’. Very true. Another thing people don’t do when they are feeling sensible is spend an evening in…