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March 4, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Old Fitz Theatre, February 10 6/10 Water: infinitely malleable and forever changing before our eyes. A pool of milky water occupies the stage and is central to Mary Zimmerman’s lavishly theatrical Metamorphoses, a refreshingly ambitious work to see attempted in Sydney, where so many productions ignite our imaginations about as…

March 3, 2018 / Album Reviews - Archive

JOHNNY SANTO (Tone Ranger) 7/10 Wow! If recorded sounds came any fatter than these they would have to be reclassified as obese. Jim Kelly – the fabled guitarist from Crossfire all those years ago – now plays producer and engineer in a studio he built near Lismore, and I suspect…

March 1, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Eternity Playhouse, February 6 6/10 Religion has to be humanity’s single most catastrophic invention. With its decrees and wars measured in lives lost, children orphaned, women raped, bodies tortured and hearts wracked with guilt and malice, it makes greed, weapons manufacturing and even nuclear bombs look as benign as soup…