Monday 10 November, 2025 Musica Viva Australia City Recital Hall Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Photos by Claudia Raschella Polish pianist, Piotr Anderszewski returns to our shores for Musica Viva Australia in a series of recitals featuring music by three German greats – Brahms, Bach and Beethoven – representing music from the Romantic, Baroque […]
Saturday 8 November, 2025 City Recital Hall Australian Chamber Orchestra Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) The Australian Chamber Orchestra are famous for their innovation and risk-taking programming, but in their theatrical production of Cocteau’s Circle they ventured beyond their comfort zone, and for the first night of the national tour there were a few […]
Art Leven Gallery. 17 Thurlow Street, Redfern. Exhibition Dates: 16 October – 25 October Review by Anthony Frater (Arts Wednesday) The Paddington Art Prize is on once again. In its 22nd year it’s always a highly anticipated event and this year was no exception. The prize is a $30,000 National Acquisitive Prize – meaning the […]
Tuesday 14 October 2025 Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Rrawun Maymuru City Recital Hall Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) How do you combine music that is 300 years old with a music tradition that is more than 30,000 years old? This is the challenge ABO Artistic Director, Paul Dyer set composer Nick Wales for their current […]
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Monday 13 October 2025 City Recital Hall Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Musica Viva Australia has invited another world class chamber ensemble to our shores with UK based Trio Isimsiz, a piano trio with a perfection of tone, phrasing and emotional depth that can only come from 16 years of performing together and living […]
8 October 2025 Flight Path Theatre, Marrickville Feet First Collective Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) What a powerful solo performance by Samuel Addison as a conflicted gay boxer that had us pinned to the floor for the entire bout. The intimate space of the Flight Path Theatre in Marrickville only heightened the sense of […]
Wednesday 1 October 2025 Seymour Centre Clockfire Theatre Company Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Having reviewed many contemporary dance performances, Ruins could have been devised by Bangarra Dance or Sydney Dance Company, only this theatrical work has a script and dialogue. Equally surprising there is no choreographer or movement director in the cast and […]
Thursday 4 September 2025 Sydney Opera House The Australian World Orchestra Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) More words have been written about Gustav Mahler’s 4th and 5th Symphonies than the number of notes in both works combined. Given that they are scored for around 100 musicians and they both last around an hour, that […]
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Tuesday 2 September 2025 Eternity Theatre, Darlinghurst Lewis Major Projects Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Through a series of curious circumstances, Lewis Major went from a future as a sheep shearer in South Australia to becoming a celebrated choreographer. He left the farm to learn dance, but an onstage accident left him unable to […]
King Street Gallery on William Exhibition and sale 26 August – 20 September 2025 Review by Anthony Frater (Arts Wednesday) It always a long awaited treat when a new collection of paintings from Idris Murphy come to market. Idris Murphy was born in Sydney in 1949 and graduated from Sydney’s National Art School in 1971. […]
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Friday 29 August 2025 Seymour Centre Omusubi Productions Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Jizo (地蔵/womb of the earth): stone statues that have a spiritual power for protection and longevity. 80 years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, The Face of Jizo could not be more relevant or timely. It probes the importance of telling and […]
Art Gallery of Australia 31 May – 21 September 2025 Review by Anthony Frater (Arts Wednesday) It’s always good to have a reason to visit Canberra and Cézanne to Giacometti, Highlights from the Museum Berggruen / Neue Nationalgalerie, is a jolly good reason. On now at the National Gallery of Australia until 21 September it’s […]
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