Ambition has defined Kip Williams’ eight years as Sydney Theatre Company’s artistic director – and with enough of it realised for his tenure to have been a significant step up from that of his predecessor, Andrew Upton. Williams’ ambition will primarily live in many theatre-goers memories thanks to his “cine-theatre”…
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Michael League must have patience and efficiency to burn. His band, Snarky Puppy, varies between nine and 12 members, and the larger the group, the greater the demands on those qualities from its leader. That would apply even if the band just played clubs, but League, also the bassist and…
The name was a statement of intent. Eighteen years ago four young Brooklynites named their string quartet Brooklyn Rider, nodding to the eclecticism of Wassily Kandinsky’s pre-World War I Blue Rider artistic movement. Since then they’ve not only given exceptional performances from the 300-year-old quartet repertoire, but they’ve commissioned many…