John Shand Posts

October 9, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

Sydney Lyric, October 2 8/10 You knew in your bones that a musical hatched from a sci-fi film would have at least one eye-bulging, draw-dropping moment, and it didn’t disappoint. Forget Phantom’s chandelier or Miss Saigon’s helicopter: what the DeLorean does in Back to the Future is in a different…

October 6, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

Wharf 2 Theatre, September 27 4/10 No one has the nerve to let this play just be in a woke world. So a man treats a woman badly. Does this not happen? Should it not be depicted? Women also treat men badly – or, more to the point, people treat…

October 2, 2025 / Concert Reviews

The Church, September 26 8/10 In both his piano playing and his composing Gary Daley has a way of making aural images appear out of – and retreat back into – aural mists. Had this ensemble not included drums, there’d have been few hard outlines: just malleable, soft-focus harmony and…