Tuesday 2 September 2025 Eternity Theatre, Darlinghurst Lewis Major Projects Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Through a series of curious circumstances, Lewis Major went from a future as a sheep shearer in South Australia to becoming a celebrated choreographer. He left the farm to learn dance, but an onstage accident left him unable to […]
Arts Wednesday begins a preview of the Sydney Festival interviewing a variety of artists in many genres. We begin this week chatting to Stephanie Lake who is the Resident Choreographer of The Australian Ballet and is one of the most innovative Australian choreographers to emerge in the last decade. She created the international hits Colossus and Manifesto(smash successes […]
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Alone It Stands The Ensemble Theatre, 3 February 2024. Reviewed by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Putting my personal biases to one side, that was the most multi-talented cast I’ve seen on stage. Each actor was expert at changing characters and accents in a millisecond, enacting difficult choreography and complex physical theatre in a high-speed relentless […]
October 26, 2023 Joan Sutherland Theatre Sydney Opera House October 27, 2023 Reviewed by Sophie Kennedy White It’s a bold move to create a dance musical about the desperate plight of refugees with the music of pop star Sting but Kate Prince’s courageous stage production does it spectacularly. Moved by that shocking image of a […]