John Shand Posts

April 9, 2014 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

O’Punksky’s Theatre Eternity Playhouse, April 8 Long? The Maus beside me was nearly screaming and my legs beneath me were screaming. Yes, at over three hours Tom Murphy’s The Gigli Concert is long by modern standards, but the frustration is with the fact that the play cries out for cutting.…

April 8, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Theatre Royal, April 2  Perhaps it is a matter of personality as much as voice: a natural warmth and an instinct for never exaggerating the emotional content of a song. Whatever the case it is easy to see and hear why, for 30 years, Bernadette Peters has probably been musical…

April 6, 2014 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, April 4 George Orwell may have been awry in the time placement of his vision of worldwide totalitarianism, and he may have been unable to foresee the technological “advancements” that would befall us, but his 1949 warning of a bleak future remains salutary. In fact…