After a twelve month working holiday that took her from Sydney to Perth, Joy moved to Australia from Canada. She first lived in Canberra, where she studied literature and sociology at ANU. After graduating she moved to Sydney and enrolled at Macquarie to complete an honours year in Australian literature and graduated in 2001. She worked in finance and the arts before establishing the arts and entertainment website thebuzzfromsydney, which reviews and promotes live performance and exhibition in Sydney.
She has been a member of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) since July 2013. She loves the vibrant art scene in Sydney, and reporting on local theatre.
Prominent Sydney theatre director Anthony Skuse. Pic Gez-Xavier Mansfield
In Katie Pollock’s new play PEOPLE INSIDE ME Lauren works at a crematorium. She hates death, but at least the dead can’t let you down.
Winner of the Rodney Seaborn Award, …
‘’Vincent River is dead, the victim of a homophobic hate crime’
With that nugget of information we head into the theatre. The outcome of this headline story is not buried at the back of the paper, but put right …
When the lights come up on The Testament of Mary the audience is confronted with a traditional Catholic scene, Mary surrounded by candles with lamb in arms. The steps leading to this very iconic image resemble an altar , which …
Just finished reading WORKING CLASS BOY the first instalment of the story of James Dixon Swan, aka – Jimmy Barnes. As usual I am about six months behind the times, the book was published to much fanfare last year, ironically …
I AM BRIAN WILSON is a rather long and vague postscript to Love and Mercy, the 2014 film that tracks the famous Beach Boy’s mental illness from its onset in the mid 60s to the 80s, whilst he was …
Bizarrely, the Lee Lewis directed A RABBIT FOR KIM-JONG-IL was partly inspired by real life events, when a German rabbit breeder sold his over-sized rabbits to the North Korean government. What subsequently happened was a mystery, though in filling in …
A FLOWER OF THE LIPS began in an informal manner with narrator Yiss Mill welcoming the audience, and shaking hands with people in the front row. Mill is the only bloke on stage, and he plays the author of the …
IT’S WAR is a very funny, if completely politically incorrect satire about two neighbouring couples whose friendship turns sour when one pair decide to do backyard extensions. Shane and his Vietnamese wife Ngoc Bich keep their plans under wraps until …
The third installment in this series debuted on Wednesday night at the New Theatre, with a host of new skits.
Created and produced by Pete Malicki, who finds his material in the everyday and the not so everyday, and weaves …
Wizard of Oz director Adena Jacobs explicitly stated that this adaptation was going to be a significant departure from previous, sunny side up versions, still, Wednesday night’s opening night was even for Belvoir standards an eye-opener. …