It was the little theatre that could, rising from the ashes of Surry Hill's
historic Nimrod Theatre when 50 theatre lovers gave $1000 each over a
weekend for a new theatre on the site
Sydney Morning Herald 31 July 2002
The Queen aged 50 years in three hours on Tuesday night at Covent Garden.
Well, her portrait did, at the Royal Ballet's three-hour gala to celebrate
the Queen's golden jubilee at the Royal Opera House The Age 26 July 2002
One of the finest and most resourceful character actors in Britain, Leo
McKern should be remembered for more than the combative Rumpole The Guardian 24 July 2002
This summer's Party at the Palace had nothing on the junketings of 400
years ago. The first Elizabethan age saw a reign-long musical picnic of
nymphs, shepherds, fauns, satyrs and gentle swains all lustily singing
"Long live Oriana!" in a production-line of madrigals designed to flatter
and promote the first great Elizabeth The
Times 23 July 2002
The set is the oldest landscape in the world; the stage a sandy bank beside
the ancient Finke River; the performers 32 born hams aged 16 to 26 from
around Australia Sydney Morning
Herald 22 July 2002
La Scala has chosen to offer a mainly nontraditional program next season in
its temporary home while the venerable opera house is renovated International Herald Tribune 20 July 2002
Those seeking another excuse to wave union flag tea-towels in the wake of
the Queen's jubilee and the World Cup may take heart today The Guardian 20 July 2002
This guy gets on a plane bound, he thinks, for Valparaiso, Indiana, but by
some perverse mistake he winds up in Valparaiso, Chile New York Post 19 July 2002
A 1978 movie made for British television and belatedly having its American
theatrical premiere, is one of those buried treasures that are unearthed
for reasons that have as much to do with star power as with
quality International Herald
Tribune 17 July 2002
Russell Page - acclaimed dancer, choreographer and one of a trinity of
talented Aboriginal brothers - has died. He was 34 Sydney Morning Herald 16 July 2002
Matthew Bourne sees no mystery to making dance popular. He just wants the
characters to come alive, whether in Nutcracker!, in his new National show
- or his upcoming work with Disney The
Observer 14 July 2002
This week the curtain rises on the city's newest performance space, NIDA's
Parade Theatre. Matthew Thompson sits in on the last-minute
preparations Sydney Morning
Herald 13 July 2002
The American playwright Jon Robin Baitz was very young when he felt the
first hints of artistic exhaustion. He was in his late 20s, with a few
shows under his belt, and about to see the first major production of his
work in New York Sydney Morning
Herald 12 July 2002
In January, while the opera world was aflutter with Pavarotti's appearances
in Tosca at Covent Garden, Edgaras Montvidas found himself singing to the
great man in his hotel room. This meeting was a dream come true The Guardian 11 July 2002
Horti (short for Horticultural) Hall, opposite the Trades Hall in Victoria
Street, Melbourne, is a new opera venue for the city and not a bad one.
Certainly, the traditional shoebox shape and high ceiling help with
atmosphere, if not always resonance The
Age 8 July 2002
Theater Row on 42nd Street has never had it so good. Maybe theaters are not
as important as plays, but you can't have plays without them. And the
rebirth of Theater Row, between Ninth and 11th avenues, is an occasion for
real theatrical joy New York
Post 7 July 2002
Everyone from Hitler to Nasa has used him. As the Barbican mounts a
festival of his music, Peter Conrad wonders what Mozart means
now The Observer 7 July 2002
The local council has denounced the NIDA site in Sydney as an "utter
disgrace", claiming that the back of the building was causing problems for
thousands of local residents Sydney Morning
Herald 3 July 2002
George C. Wolfe had come uptown on a mission: to write and direct an
original musical about Harlem, in Harlem, a show that would give the Apollo
a Broadway kind of swagger - and maybe, too, a vast new audience
New York Times 2 July 2002
Stephen Page cannot help but imagine how life could have been so different.
He offers his preferred version of Captain James Cook's landing on Terra
Australis more than 200 years ago The
Age 2 July 2002
If you broke into "Oh, what a beautiful morning" in the shower at dawn's
early light or felt the urge to "Whistle a happy tune" on the way to work,
remember to think of Richard Rodgers Christian
Science Monitor 28 June 2002
Edward Albee has had a bizarre career. His early tries at playwriting
culminated in 1962 in "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf," an explosion of
drunken, often witty arguing. Then came 30 years of lugubrious missteps
until he found his way again with 1990's "Three tall women," before lapsing
into this year's glum one-joke (albeit Tony-winning) "The goat, or who is
Sylvia?"
Now comes "All over" from 1970, which has been brought to New York from
Princeton, N.J.
New York Post 28 June 2002
Scrupulously compiled and edited, this is a major contribution to our
understanding of Toscanini and of several entire eras of late-19th- and
20th-century musical life. It's also a wonderful, sometimes downright
salacious read New York
Times 26 June 2002
Fred West's 'house of horrors', the Moors Murders, the attack on the twin
towers: name an atrocity and someone, somewhere will be writing a play
about it. Is there more to it than opportunism? The Guardian 26 June 2002
A little-known classic of the Australian theatre will be revived in
Adelaide this week. The rarely staged Dreamers of the Absolute, by
Melbourne playwright Phil Motherwell, was last seen in New York in
1992 The Advertiser 25 June 2002
It starred a single mother, her daughter and three men who could be the girl's father. It was set on a Greek island, ended with a wedding, and 650,000 people have seen it since opening night on June 9 last year. The magic ingredient? A plot intertwined with 22 Abba songs The Age 24 June 2002
"The peasants are revolting: come at once" was the instruction from the National Theatre, where the large cast rehearsing Tom Stoppard's new trilogy about 19th-century Russia had dragooned director Trevor Nunn into giving them an extended lunch break to watch England play Argentina in the World Cup The Guardian 22 June 2002
He was one of those character actors who seem so akin to the kind of people
you meet every day that he was instantly recognisable and unerringly
credible Sydney Morning
Herald 22 June 2002