Review: GREGORY PORTER

Sydney Opera House Monday October 20th Sydney Opera House Review by Jammin’ Saturday Love was swirling all around as Gregory Porter and his quintet dazzled the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall’s adoring audience. Opening with ‘Revival’ from All Rise 2020, Mr Porter of impressive stature and signature hatted presence charmed with his warm responses to […]

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Review: The Paddington Art Prize

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 […]

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Review: Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Water Music

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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Review: Trio Isimsiz

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 […]

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Review: Shadow Boxing

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 […]

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Review: Ruins أطلال at the Seymour

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 […]

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BRIGHT STAR

Hayes Theatre Review by Jammin’ Saturday Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Bright Star currently playing at the Hayes Theatre shines with love, vigour, redemption and bluegrass foot tappin’ tunes. The story unfolds through two intertwining narratives of Billy (Cameron Bajraktarevic-Hayward), an aspiring small-town writer back from war service and Alice (Hannah […]

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“Seasons Of Love” in RENT

Sydney Opera House From Sept 27 Review by Jammin’ Saturday Bohemian angst and anger in East Village New York during a silent 90’s epidemic with a nod to Puccini’s Parisian La Boheme, RENT has not lost it’s message. Opening this week in the Joan Sutherland Theatre at the Sydney Opera House, this is a strong […]

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Review: I’m Uncomfortable by Annick Adelle

Review by Léane Debize I’m Uncomfortable is a standup comedy show presented by Sydney Fringe, it’s a 45 minute-long journey around identity, awkward moments and the tension between fitting in and staying true to yourself. Annick Adelle is a New York comedian, born in Paris, and raised in Germany. Annick has played all over America […]

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Review: Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical

Review by Léane Debize This musical was phenomenal, it was funny, touching and so well-played. It is not often that you get to enter the world of your favorite Netflix show. Presented by Epiphany Arts Theatre Company as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival, this parody musical of the iconic Stranger Things show takes you […]

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Upside Down Fantasyland: Emotions, Vulnerability and Resilience

Review by Léane Debize Last night, I was lucky to witness Upside Down Fantasyland, Troy Rogers is a performer, comedian, poet and singer. Through his awesome One Man Show, he shares his story of trauma, parental abuse, living with his grandmother, substance abuses, and resilience. A beautiful storytelling of emotions, vulnerability, honesty and love. This […]

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Echoes of a Hidden Life: Anne Being Frank at the Opera House

Review by Léane Debize I first learned about Anne Frank when my stepdad gifted me her diary many years ago. It was published in 1947 after World War II. In there, she shares her story, the one of a young girl growing up in Europe in the 1930s from going into hiding in Amsterdam with […]

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