The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: “Poet of the Violin” City Recital Hall, Angel Place – Wednesday 1 November 2023 Reviewed by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) The Australian Brandenburg orchestra was on its best behaviour in the absence of Artistic Director, Paul Dyer. Instead we had Guest Artistic Director, Leila Schayegh from Switzerland leading the band brilliantly […]
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Jesse Lockhart-Krause, principal and founder of Lockhart-Krause Architects, has won the tender to renovate the Bondi Surf Club. After years of consulting with Waverley Council, the Club members and the local stakeholders, the DA was approved without a single objection, an extraordinary feat in itself. You can read all the detail of the new design […]
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The winners of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards were announced on Friday at the Museum and Gallery of the Northern Territory. We speak to curator, Rebekah Raymond, as well as some of the finalists and category winners. Keith Wikmunea, a Thu’ Apalech man and artist from Aurukun in Queensland, is the […]
We continue our exploration of the Nicholson Collections at University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum. Deputy Director, Dr. Paul Donnelly guides us through the Greek Collections. Dr Donnelly worked at the excavations at Pella in Jordan before becoming the co-director of the Zagora Archeological Project on Andros, Greece. We discuss the importance of the archeological finds […]
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra – Dvorak’s Serenade City Recital Hall, Angel Place – 5 August 2023 Reviewed by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) In this concert, the ACO demonstrated a retrograde deconstruction of modernism in music. The four works in the program were in reverse chronological order ranging from the ultra-modern blending of traditional minuet and […]
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Mr Bailey’s Minder Ensemble Theatre, 2 August, 2023. Reviewed by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) It’s been quite a few years since I’ve been to the Ensemble Theatre in Kirribilli, and I’d forgotten what an idyllic location it is for a night out, with the lively bar overlooking the still dark waters of Careening Cove. It […]
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The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Ottoman Baroque City Recital Hall, Angel Place – 21 July 2023 Reviewed by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) The Brandenburgs have certainly taken us in a different direction this time. Artistic Director, Paul Dyer, has found his mystical muse in Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, a 13th century Turkish poet and teacher. As […]
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It’s the final few days of the Bondi Festival and the excitement keeps building. After nearly two weeks of singing, dance, theatre, comedy, burlesque and cabaret, the last acts are warming up and getting their makeup and frocks ready for showtime. This week we preview Tash York’s Happy Hour. Tash is on a mission to […]
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The 2023 Bondi Festival launched on a chilly Friday night at the Bondi Pavilion. The iconic ferris wheel and ice rink have returned and 16 days of arts, theatre, cabaret, dance and markets are ready to go. After a launch that included a performance of indigenous dance, the Waverley Art Prize Winner was announced. Carolyn […]
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After her sellout 2022 show, Onstage Dating, multi Award winning actor, writer and director Bron Batten brings her one hander, Waterloo, to the 2023 Bondi Festival. The premise of the show was inspired by a previous relationship. Bron asks what happens when a lefty, Greens-voting, almost-vegan theatre artist dates a right-wing, cigar-smoking Margaret Thatcher-loving Tory soldier. Opposites […]
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Get ready for all the news from the 2023 Bondi Festival Bondi Beach is gearing up for its annual winter celebration with the iconic ferris wheel and ice skating rink. The Festival is jam packed with music, art, comedy, theatre and so much fun and entertainment for all ages. The Festival opening weekend features a […]
The Grand Electric, Redfern – Wednesday 14 June 2023 Reviewed by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Sans doute, this was the most fun I’ve had at the theatre in a long time. The team at Strut & Fret delivered a high energy, champagne-fuelled night of hilarious, death-defying, sexy, raunchy cabaret. With the reference in the title, […]