Review: The Kingdom of Eucalypts

Thursday 31 October 2024 Bondi Pavilion Moira Blumenthal Productions  Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) The Kingdom of Eucalypts is a powerful play that explores many controversial themes while telling the story of one of Australia’s best known writers, Miles Franklin. Playwright Alice Spigelman asks us to grapple with race, feminism, political ideology, the role […]

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Review: Ingrid Fliter Performs Chopin

Wednesday 30 October, 2024 Sydney Symphony Orchestra Sydney Opera House Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Argentinian pianist, Ingrid Fliter gave a consummate demonstration of how to make the piano sing the way Frederic Chopin would have in her graceful performance of his 1st Piano Concerto with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Brazilian conductor Eduardo Strausser […]

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Review: Gauguin’s World: Tona Iho, Tona Ao

National Gallery of Australia 29 June – 7 October 2024 Review by Anthony Frater. Arts Wednesday. They say every picture tells a story and this exhibition tells us why. If you haven’t had a chance to get down to the National Gallery in Canberra to see the Paul Gauguin exhibition, better hurry because there are […]

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Review: Sir Isaac Julien. Once Again… (Statues Never Die) 

Museum of Contemporary Art.  27 September 2024 – 16 February 2025 Review by Anthony Frater (Arts Wednesday) When is film art or when is art film? Well it’s been a long time since art exclusively meant painting or drawing, nowadays everyone is an artist and everything is art, whether it be dance, film or music, […]

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Review: Sydney Symphony Orchestra & Donald Runnicles

Friday 20 & Friday 27 September, 2024 Sydney Opera House Sydney Symphony Orchestra Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Eminent British conductor and Sydney Symphony Principal Guest conductor, Sir Donald Runnicles presented two concerts of late Romantic and Impressionist music at the Sydney Opera House. Duruflé Requiem Fri 20 September The orchestration genius of Claude […]

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Review: Sitting, Screaming at the Old Fitz Theatre

Sunday 22 September, 2024 Old Fitz Theatre New Ghosts Theatre Company Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Sitting, Screaming is a virtuoso theatre work for a solo actor that examines some dark themes in the life of a troubled teenage girl dealing with multiple distressing factors in her life as she edges towards adulthood. Writer, […]

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Review: Sydney Dance Company’s Twofold at the Roslyn Packer Theatre

Wednesday 18 September, 2024 Roslyn Packer Theatre Sydney Dance Company Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) The Sydney Dance Company’s double bill, Twofold cements their reputation under the Artistic Direction of Rafael Bonachela as one of the premier contemporary dance companies in Australia. The opening work, Impermanence was choreographed by Bonachela and first conceived with […]

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Review: Voices of the Italian Baroque at St James Church

Friday 16 August, 2024 St. James’ Church Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Chamber Singers Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) The queue to get into the St James’ Church was moving slowly as the distant thunder was rumbling. Fortunately we were all seated by the time the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Chamber Singers filed in to the choir […]

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Review: Council at the City Recital Hall

Monday 12 August 2024 City Recital Hall Council: Pekka Kuusisto & Gabriel Kahane Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Council is the musical duo of Pekka Kuusisto & Gabriel Kahane. Their song-writing is original but somehow assuringly familiar and the songs are interspersed with classical music both old and ultra-modern. The overall effect is a […]

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Thin Ice VR + Karim. Arts Wednesday

In December 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton set out on a journey to cross the Antarctic from coast to coast. The ill-fated expedition came into trouble when their ship Endurance became trapped in ice. It wasn’t until August 1916 that the entire crew was rescued and returned to safety. Now a virtual reality exhibition recreates their […]

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Natasha Art on the Bondi Sea Wall + Alone It Stands @ The Ensemble. Arts Wednesday

Natalia Chabadova loves travel and art. The two inform a lifestyle that has brought her to Bondi from Slovakia. Her mural entitled Whales Constellation portrays 3 different species of whale floating in an underwater dream world, expressing freedom and liberation. She travels the world working as an artist, teacher and sound healer. Since arriving in […]

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