Thursday 15 January 2026 Sydney Opera House Joan Sutherland Theatre Opera Australia Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Puccini wrote Madama Butterfly (1904) and Turandot (1924) at the height of Western fascination with the Orient. Artists and musicians were creating works that portrayed a stereotypical western view of the exotic cultures of the Orient, in […]
Saturday 10 January 2026 Sydney Opera House CIRCA Photos by Daniel Boud Circa is one of the world’s leading touring circus ensembles based in Brisbane. They generally tour three shows internationally at one time and the current show Duck Pond has been travelling the globe since 2023. Lead by Yaron Lifschitz, they stay true to […]
Thursday 8 January 2026 Sydney Opera House Joan Sutherland Theatre Opera Australia Photography: Keith Saunders Revival and Movement Director, Matthew Barclay, brought together an incredibly talented team of creatives to reproduce Moffat Oxenbould’s 1997 award winning production of Madama Butterfly for Opera Australia’s 2026 season. The casting of Guanqun Yu as the impressionable and innocent […]
16 December 2025 KXT Theatre on Broadway FooFrame Productions with bAKEHOUSE Theatre Co Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Photography by Robert Miniter A Chinese Christmas started life in the mind of Trent Foo as a love letter to his grandma. He wrote and stars in the play that is a delightful tale of family, […]
20 November 2025 Playhouse Theatre, Sydney Opera House Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Photos by Brett Boardman Written over 400 years ago, Romeo and Juliet has permeated our culture in ballet, pop music, art, film and literature. And this is due to Shakespeare’s genius in portraying the human condition with timeless acuity in a […]
Glacier. S. H. Ervin Gallery. I8 November – 14 December. Then & Now. King Street Gallery on William. 18 November – 13 December Review by Anthony Frater. Arts Wednesday. There are two exhibitions on now at different galleries featuring the work of one this country’s most gifted painters in the Romantic style; actually he isn’t […]
Saturday 15 November, 2025 Bach Akademie Australia The Neilson, ACO on the Pier Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Photos by Keith Saunders It would have to be one of the most famous, most creative and ultimately unsuccessful job applications in history. In 1719, not long after the death of his first wife, JS Bach, […]
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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 […]