Music, Art, Film, Theatre

Last year all of my eggs were in four baskets (full time work, full time university, volunteering with Lenny on Sundays, and providing financial assistance and caring for my parents and teenage sisters).   This year I want to put my eggs in more than these baskets. I was also worried that I ...

WORLD PREMIERE This event is currently sold out. Close to the performance date, unused house seats may be released for sale. A limited amount of tickets are available on the day of each performance through Tix for Next to Nix.First Love is one of Samuel Beckett's earliest post-war novellas and co...

The train station was above us. The Cahill Expressway was above the train station. Underneath the train station and the expressway were the entrances to the ferry terminals. In front of all this stands Customs House, the building on the left (which houses a library and a restaurant on t...

“All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone, my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music, ensemble music, not soloism, we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.Catherine Drinker Bowen   Before Christmas, I took L, (the little bro...

Here I am again, at 1am, wide awake. I met with a close friend today who is home in Sydney for two weeks. She now lives in London and works between there, Glasgow and Nottingham. We had a 2 hour lunch in the Rocks, near where she used to live. We caught up on old…

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.Lord Byron I went to a play tonight with my sister Amber at the Wharf theatre, Revue Sans Frontieres. The two of us howled with laughter, whistled and clapped throughout the show. It was the funniest thing we had seen in a long time. REVUE SANS FRONTI&Egr...

"Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown up world."Shirley Hazzard The Sydney Festival has happened every January since 1977, ...

Last night I went to a thankyou concert at the Sydney Opera House put on for volunteer workers. It was the first time I have been to see opera. Luckily, they were just slices of the best of a number of operas. They were annotated up front by one of the opera singers who explained…