226 stories by "Deborah Jones"
A year into his artistic directorship, Francesco Ventriglia talks about his goals for Royal New Zealand Ballet and his first program for the company  "My life is where I can have a theatr…
Sydney Dance Company with ACO2 and Katie Noonan. Roslyn Packer Theatre Walsh Bay, Sydney, September 29. BENJAMIN Britten was in his 20s when he wrote the three works to which Rafael Bonachel…
Dumy Moyi, Carriageworks, Sydney, September 30; Departures, Ken Unsworth Studio, Sydney, October 1. In the recent exhibition of dance and the moving image, 24 Frames per Second, staged beaut…
Melbourne, September 15 THE Australian Ballet and its audiences have a great deal invested in David McAllister's new Sleeping Beauty, in both senses of the word. The first is financial: this…
High Society, Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney, September 7; Anything Goes, Sydney Opera House, September 8   IN one giddy night of mayhem, pairs of lovers " former, would-be, should-be…
The Aliens, Old Fitz Theatre, August 27; La Traviata, Belvoir Downstairs, September 1; Bull, Old Fitzroy Theatre, September 3 AMERICAN playwright Annie Baker has been mentioned, many times, …
Playhouse, Sydney Opera House, August 21. THE Tempest starts in tumult and ends in calm. Prospero, ejected from his dukedom of Milan 12 years before, is going home. His daughter, Miranda, is…
Matilda the Musical, Lyric Theatre, Sydney I'M sorry. I make no apology for the following revelation because it's relevant. I was the intellectual of the Kindergarten class at St Columba's, …
Sydney Opera House, August 19. LET'S not talk in the past tense about Sylvie Guillem. She may be on her farewell tour but she is still one of the greatest of the greats. Until December, when…
IN his first year as artistic director of Louisville Ballet, in the US state of Kentucky, former Australian Ballet principal dancer Robert Curran has attracted a donation of $US1 million to …
Minetta Lane Theatre, New York, February 9, 2014 Sydney Theatre Company, July 15, 2015 The script for Caryl Churchill's Love and Information gives little away at first glance. There are many…
Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney, July 17 HOW can we know the dancer from the dance, asked W.B. Yeats. It's a question embedded in Sue Healey's absorbing On View: Live Portraits…
I DO hope I've got this right. Senator George Brandis is appropriating about $100 million, give or take, from the Australia Council for the Arts so he can give it to applicants approved dire…
CARRIAGEWORKS is Sydney's other great secular cathedral. This vast late-19th century industrial space, originally built as railway workshops to make train carriages for the growing city, is …
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, June 26. TREY McIntyre is a prolific American choreographer who has made more than 100 works " he is only 45 – and is widely known and admired in the…
Sydney Opera House, June 11 IN Frances Rings's Sheoak, her new work for Bangarra Dance Theatre, there is a greatly touching section for two women, on the Sydney opening night danced by Elma …
Belvoir, Sydney, June 10 MOTHER Courage is one of the little people, born somewhere undesirable at the wrong time. A war she didn't have anything to do with starting grinds on, stops for a b…
Metropolitan Opera House, New York, May 29 and May 30. WHEN Serge Diaghilev decided to stage The Sleeping Beauty in London the monumental Russian Imperial-era ballet was not an obvious stabl…
Sydney Opera House, June 3 MARK Morris is a master of light. You see this in all sorts of ways: the deeply satisfying structures where formality is leavened by little quirks and surprises; u…
American Ballet Theatre, May 28 IN the life of an inveterate dance-lover there are many Giselles and many new insights into the ballet and its characters, or at least one always goes in hope…
Giselle, American Ballet Theatre, May 23; La Sylphide, New York City Ballet, May 24; All Robbins, New York City Ballet, May 26 IF this had been The Australian Ballet, this is what woul…
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Belasco Theatre, May 21; An American in Paris, Palace Theatre, May 22; The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Polonsky Shakespeare Centre, Brooklyn, May 23 (matinee);Å
Hayes Theatre Co, May 7 IN February 2012 The New York Times published a short article about Dogfight, which would have its Off-Broadway premiere six months later at Second Stage Theater. Thi…
Sydney Opera House, April 29. THE Australian Ballet's first staging of Frederick Ashton's Symphonic Variations alongside revivals of his coolly mysterious Monotones II and lucid, delightful …
See, they say 'Get to your homes ASAP, stay inside, stay protected, don't drive unless absolutely necessary and stay away from waterways' and I hear 'Hop in your Holden and get on down to si…
