In August 1871 the great Russian writer Ivan Turgenev went to Pitlochry, in Perthshire, to join a shooting party on some Victorian magnate’s estate. This is one of the multitude of fascinating pieces of information gleaned from Orlando Figes’s majestically …
For up and coming young singers, particularly those studying opera, the path to a professional career may seem to be extremely narrow and fraught with challenges. In Europe, there is ample population for audiences and many tertiary courses / tutors …
When we walked in to the small Boom Boom Theatre my friend Rachel sat down in the seat next to her which had been allocated to Julia Louis Dreyfus. We assumed that this seat would be occasionally used by the …
Its rare for a consummate concert goer to be totally bowled over by a sublime performance that exceeds expectation.
So it was at a 90 minute afternoon performance by the effervescent Kuringai Youth Orchestra, who totally nailed it, to the …
This show is written by Amani Mahmoud, and produced and directed by Kersherka Sivakumaran, and based on first hand experiences of a survivor of domestic violence in a traditional Indian family. The script has three parts, each about 15 minutes, …