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SIMA Presents the catholics at Foundry 616 – CANCELLED

Posted on March 5, 2020 (March 19, 2020) by reception

EVENT CANCELLED We regret to advise that due to the unprecedented circumstances surrounding COVID-19, the catholics have had to cancel their show with SIMA on Saturday 21st March. We apologies for the inconvenience and please contact the venue to receive a full refund. _____________________________________________________________________ Flooding the Stage With Happy-Go-Lucky Melodies Played by an All-Star Band The Sydney […]

Review: Considering Matthew Shepard

Posted on February 21, 2020 (June 13, 2023) by Paul Neeson

VOX perform Considering Matthew Shepard. Photo by Robert Catto

Sydney Philharmonia VOX Choir – City Recital Hall, Angel Place. 20 February Reviewed by Paul Neeson In October 1998 a young man, Matthew Shepard, was tied to a fence and beaten to death just because he was gay. He was found the next day alone, limp, covered in blood and barely breathing. Curiously he was […]

Picnic Surry Hills 2020 Mardi Gras

Posted on February 18, 2020 (February 19, 2020) by Tony Roma

SURRY HILLS CREATIVE PRECINCT ANNOUNCES PICNIC SURRY HILLS AN AFTERNOON OF FOOD, FUN & FLOWERS DEVONSHIRE DIVAS / DJS / UNICORN RIDES /ART / WORKSHOPS On Sunday 23rd February, The Surry Hills Creative Precinct is set to host PICNIC Surry Hills, a new event, celebrating a fresh new look for Surry Hills and the end […]

The Guild Theatre Presents Looped

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Tony Roma

Looped by Matthew Lombardo at The Guild Theatre, Rockdale from February 14th, 2020 The original bad girl of the golden age of Hollywood, Tallulah Bankhead was glamorous, scandalous, always witty, and never well behaved. In the Summer of 1965, with her career and her life burning away, she spent one drunken day in a Los […]

John Harkins The Life of Riley Album Launch

Posted on February 3, 2020 by Tony Roma

Foundry616 is proud to host the launch of John Harkins’ new CD, “Life of Riley” “Life of Riley” is the seventh album from the pianist/composer and his first release since “The Girl Next Door” over three years ago. Since coming to Australia nearly 25 years ago, Harkins, a Chicagoan and a product of the great […]

Review: Grayson Perry Live

Posted on January 29, 2020 (June 13, 2023) by reception

Grayson Perry Us & Them @ State Theatre 16th January 2020 Reviewed by Paris Pompor Arriving on stage for his Us & Them show in the most envy-inducing baby-blue clodhoppers Sydney has ever seen outside of Mardi Gras season, Turner-Prize winning potter, tapestry subverter and darling of the British contemporary art scene, Grayson Perry looked […]

Bronze Lands (Tailte Cré-Umha): Review

Posted on January 23, 2020 (January 28, 2020) by Paula Towers

Sydney Town Hall Organ Recital: January 21 Reviewed by Paula Towers Sydney was recently treated to a non-traditional recital – an immersive, multi-sensory production: lying down on mats on the floor of the dramatic Centennial Hall, people relaxed, soaking up the deep vibrations and sonic textures of the Sydney Town Hall organ. Built in 1890, […]

Review: Air Play

Posted on January 23, 2020 (June 20, 2023) by Paula Towers

Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay, Sydney, 21-25 January Reviewed by Paula Towers Giant balloons float above the audience while long lengths of sheer fabric appear to dance with a life of their own in Air Play, a 2020 Sydney Festival offer. Charmingly described as a “visual poem”, this show is a beguiling and fun blend […]

Review: Betty Blokk-Buster Reimagined

Posted on January 21, 2020 (June 20, 2023) by Paula Towers

Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent, Sydney’s Hyde Park North, 7 – 26 January Reviewed by Paula Towers Part of the 2020 Sydney Festival, transgressive cabaret Betty Blokk-Buster Reimagined inspires and delights with its confectionary of costumes, characters and theatrical delivery. Multi-talented Josh Quong Tart has reinvented the original raunchy role and his irascible charm is enthusiastically received. […]

Acoustic Ritual- Music Back at 505

Posted on January 21, 2020 (January 30, 2020) by paddonm

At the end of 2019, one of Sydney’s iconic venues for jazz and new music, 505, closed its doors on Cleveland Street. Listed in Downbeat Magazine as one of the world’s 150 best jazz clubs, 505 had offered live music for six nights a week for a decade. For lovers of improvised music, the good […]

Iron In The Blood @ City Recital Hall

Posted on January 14, 2020 (January 14, 2020) by Tony Roma

In association with Sydney Festival – A Musical Adaption of Robert Hughes’ The Fatal Shore by Jeremy Rose and The Earshift Orchestra Inspired by Robert Hughes’ famous book The Fatal Shore, Iron in the Blood is a captivating musical production with jazz orchestra, visual projections and narrated by acclaimed actors William Zappa and Patrick Dickson. Iron in the Blood weaves […]

Grayson Perry: Them & Us

Posted on January 6, 2020 (January 10, 2020) by Tony Roma

Turner prize winning artist, Bafta-winning TV presenter and bestselling author with traditional masculine traits (including having the desire to always be right and to overtake all other cyclists when going up big hills) Grayson Perry invites you to join him this January for the Australian debut of his one-man show Grayson Perry: Them & Us. “I am […]