226 stories by "Deborah Jones"
Robert Curran was a long-serving principal artist with The Australian Ballet, from which he retired in 2011. He’s now leading a small company in the United States and relishing a role …
Sydney Opera House, April 2, 4 and 7 TWO and bit years ago, when Paris Opera Ballet came to Sydney with its production of Giselle, I was able to see three excitingly different readings of th…
Les Misérables, Capitol Theatre, Sydney, April 26;Â Aida, Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, Fleet Steps, Sydney, April 27 A COUPLE of years ago I interviewed Stephen Sondheim ahead of the Me…
Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, May 20. IN August Bournonville's enduringly popular Romantic ballet, a young man dozes by a vast open fireplace and is woken by an app…
Sydney Theatre, March 9 and 10. IT was a great coup for Rafael Bonachela to secure William Forsythe's Quintett for Sydney Dance Company. It is a jewel of the contemporary repertoire with so …
Sydney Opera House, February 28 IN the guise of a sweet and playful romance, As You Like It drives its characters (and ourselves) to seek answers to life's deepest questions. Who am I? What …
Capitol Theatre, Sydney, February 20 and February 24. GRAEME Murphy's Swan Lake has been a touchstone production – and a fortunate one – not only for The Australian Ballet as a w…
Belvoir, February 18 KILL the Messenger is as simple as theatre gets. There's a bare space " designer Ralph Myers in particularly pared-back mode " and some projected photographs, five actor…
Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney, February 10. WILLY Russell isn't a great lyricist and not much more than a journeyman composer but he's no slouch with a heart-tugging story as his life-affirming p…
Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby. Royal Court Theatre and Lisa Dwan, State Theatre Centre of WA, February 14. Mozart Dances, Mark Morris Dance Group, His Majesty's Theatre, February 13. THERE were …
One of the key works of the 2015 Perth International Arts Festival is Mark Morris's Mozart Dances from 2006. There will be four performances only, on February 13, 14 and 15. PIAF artistic di…
Force Majeure, Carriageworks, January 22. IN her 10 years at Force Majeure, the company she founded and which she now leaves, Kate Champion's material has included the ageing process, near-d…
Sydney Festival Parramatta Program, January 23 PUNCTURE starts with "Hello" and ends with "I love you". Has there been anything more life-affirming than this at the 2015 Sydney Festival? I d…
Next to Normal, Doorstep Arts in association with Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney, January 15. Sweet Charity, Sydney Opera House, January 16, 2015 IF there is a choice to be made between darkness a…
AS I foreshadowed on December 15 on my Diary page, Queensland Ballet has lost one of its principal artists, Natasha Kusch, to The Australian Ballet. Kusch was with QB for less than 18 months…
Dancing for the Gods, Chitrasena Dance Company for the Sydney Festival, January 8. IF there is a more immediately captivating dancer than Thaji Dias, I have yet to see her, or him. Dias is t…
Volatile personalities, free speech, free tickets and the free language almost obligatory when publishing online " look at me, please!! " tangled at the weekend when a dispute between Opera …
THIS year I saw more than 200 performances and, over the past week or so, have written about the people, plays, operas, dance works and musicals that spoke to me most strongly. Now I cull th…
I'VE avoided making neat lists of 10 of this and 10 of that in my survey of 2014, which is good when it comes to the individuals who made the deepest impression on me. I decided not to divid…
DANCE is my great passion but this year there wasn't a huge amount to bowl me over.Certainly I saw plenty of fine dancing " when does one not? " but in classical ballet there were few new wo…
MUSICAL theatre in Sydney got a boost in 2014 with the arrival of Hayes Theatre Co. When Darlinghurst Theatre Company won the residency at the lovely new Eternity Playhouse, a group of music…
TWO pieces of 2015 theatre programming in Melbourne would have interested me anyway, but having seen the shows in New York early this year makes them irresistible. Caryl Churchill's Love and…
OF the more than 200 shows I saw last year, about a third were plays. Dance, opera, musical theatre and cabaret make up the rest. Unfortunately symphonic and chamber music featured very ligh…
EARLY next week I'll be at the Vanguard in Sydney's Newtown to see Jacqui Dark and Kanen Breen's cabaret show Under the Covers. That will bring my 2014 show total to 207, including a strong …
Maina Gielgud, artistic director of The Australian Ballet from 1983 to 1997, is in Sydney preparing to restage her acclaimed 1986 production of Giselle, last performed by the company in 2008…
