607 stories by "Deborah"
British choreographer Cathy Marston has made literary adaptations a cornerstone of her work. My Brilliant Career, the closing work in Queensland Ballet's latest triple bill, Trilogy, j…
The way The Australian Ballet's calendar works meant Sydney had a unique opportunity to assess the company's form and direction at the halfway point of its 60th anniversary celebration ye…
Keith Haring's first-ever L.A. museum survey, Sondheim celebrations, a groundbreaking Chicanx art show, intriguing Ojai Music Festival offerings and plenty more to check out this summer.
Li Cunxin first programmed Giselle a decade ago in his first year as artistic director of Queensland Ballet. He had three leading casts " enough, you would think. Then a spate of injur…
It should come as a surprise to no one that Melburnians saw the first complete Der Ring des Nibelungen in Australia. The city has always had something of a yen for Wagner. The year was…
Shaun Parker & Company's work never fails to lodge itself tenaciously in the memory. I think of This Show is About People from 2007, Am I (2016) and Happy as Larry (201…
Nostalgia currently rules at Sydney's big three commercial theatres, along with a hefty dose of pragmatism. Old favourites are back in relatively modest productions that have been designed t…
Australian Theatre Live, a streaming service that offers films of local performing arts productions for subscribers to view at home, has just added Pinchgut Opera's delectable comedy The …
18th Street Arts Center has been awarded a $3-million California Creative Corps grant from the California Arts Council to expand its Culture Mapping 90404 project statewide.
By Fumbani Innot Phiri, Bright Africa Makina, Evelyn Kaipa, Prince Kazembe, Deborah Butao, Ngwenyama Nkhata. YDC Theatre has been producing theatre consistently in Malawi, even throughout th…
The return of John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet to The Australian Ballet after nearly 20 years is a reminder of how few narrative ballets surpass it for range and complexity. Cranko's ver…
West Australian Ballet celebrates its 70th anniversary this year and at last has the numbers to enable a Swan Lake. The company decided not to go the safe route of staging a production…
By Fumbani Innot Phiri, Lydia Deborah Banda . Lydia Deborah Banda infuses theatre into community initiatives that work toward gender equality, educate girls about menstruation, and provide l…
Australian audiences know Wayne McGregor from Dyad 1929, made in 2009 as part of The Australian Ballet's Ballets Russes celebration; Chroma, choreographed in 2006 and brought into the …
The BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ turned theatre director is celebrated for his progressive, community-minded productions, so why is he bringing a children's TV cartoon about a dog to the stage?
The pa…
Australia's three leading classical companies have released their 2023 programs, each with a distinctive flavour. The Australian Ballet has a deeply glamorous 60thanniversary season, West Au…
Governments rise and fall. Children grow up to be mothers and then grandmothers. A man steps on the moon. Evolution creates a new version of humankind, the digital native. And serenely Th…
The Australian Ballet is in a nostalgic mood. The company's 60th birthday is just around the corner " its first performance was in Sydney on November 2, 1962 " so thoughts naturally go to…
Kenneth MacMillan's Manon premiered in 1974, not quite a decade after his Romeo and Juliet, and in some ways is the earlier ballet's dark twin. Each has as its heart young lovers in…
Savage's subtitle is The Violence of Forgetting, letter and words separated from their neighbours by full stops and slashes. Australian Dance Theatre adds even more emphasis with attentio…
Adapted and directed by Kip Williams. Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney, August 10 and September 7. Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case starts not with Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde but with Jekyll's c…
Theatre Royal, Sydney, August 30, 2022 She was sitting in the front row of the Theatre Royal stalls, which means she was practically onstage. The young woman was on her own, applauding like …
One of the stranger side effects of Covid has been Opera Australia's double dip into The Phantom of the Opera. First up was the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour extravaganza directed by Simo…
Neilson Studio, Sydney Dance Company, August 19, 2022 INDance is a new Sydney Dance Company initiative, one in which it shares space and resources with independent dance artists. It's good f…
Howls of rage from Hong Kong to Malta vie with King Lear in the metaverse and Sophie Duker on the labour-saving benefits of threesomes
Art in the time of political contests, climate crisis,…
