Alan has worked in the media business for nearly 20 years as an editor, writer and sub editor across a large number of newspaper, magazine and online newsletter titles. He has had a passion for stage and screen for as long as he can remember and has, he admits, never been backwards in coming forwards when it comes to having an opinion. His interest in the arts runs across the full spectrum, from opera, ballet and musicals, to symphony concerts to large music festivals, pub gigs and just about everything in between.
The Metropolitan Orchestras (TMO) concert on February 20 will be the first in a uniquely designed 2021 concert season which will see all of TMO’s mainstage Met concerts presented from charming and intimate local venues.
Led by Chief Conductor Sarah-Grace …
“Visions for a better world”
In a year of unprecedented disruption and upheaval, there has never been a more vital time to understand our world and imagine a better future.
The Transitions Film Festival returns this February with an enthralling …
Flickerfest, Australia’s leading short film festival, kicked off under the stars of Bondi Beach on Friday night to the relief of organisers having to navigate the restrictions and challenges of a global pandemic over the past year.
The festival, which …
When performing his own piano concertos, the great showman Frédéric Chopin preferred dark and smoky salons to the grand concert halls of Paris. As a matter of practicality, Chopin arranged his own concertos for small ensembles, often performing with string …
Originally live streamed as ‘Friday Night Live!’ during the great lockdown of 2020, ’FNL … Alive and Unlocked!’ will be unleashed in the Sydney Festival from Tuesday 5 – Saturday 9 January 2021. The season will be live on stage …
Choose your own Covid adventure, sit in a theatre or sit in your lounge room.
Katie and Grace have been best friends for 11 years. They survived Sydney Covid times by going for dumb long walks and sharing epiphanies about …
An exclusive collaboration between young Australian leaders, activists and performers will take to the stage at the 10th Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) to showcase the power of youth in an exclusive performance titled UNFORGIVABLE.
And in a true FODI-style …
Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney is proud to present ‘As I stepped out into the bright sun light’, a new solo exhibition by Richard Lewer that draws on the artist’s personal experiences of loss and responds to the pain and destruction caused by …
Produced by Cross Pollinate Productions, EVERYBODY by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is coming to Sydney on 6 March at Kings Cross Theatre.
A finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Price, and described as “theatre rather unlike anything you might have seen” (The Huffington …
Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney presents It’s Not Real, a solo exhibition of new works by Australian artist Karen Black on 13 – 28 March 2020.
Black’s work explores loaded social and individual female driven narratives, traversing the complex interchange between the personal …
