John Shand Posts

February 19, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive

Book of Omens (Nine Winds)  If you like your art as dark as a gallery at midnight this is the album for you. If you like your art to stir visions of doom, of the apocalypse or of a very, very bad-hair day, this is the album for you. If…

February 16, 2014 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Hayes Theatre, February  13 Musicals staged in small theatres have been rare beasts, but that is about to change. Two days after seeing Falsettos in the Eternity Playhouse, here was Sweet Charity launching a new permanent home for pocket productions of musicals in Sydney, the Hayes Theatre (previously Darlinghurst Theatre).…

February 12, 2014 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Eternity Playhouse, February 11 When was the last time you heard a musical performed unamplified? No, I can’t remember, either, the odd workshop apart. I doubt that any of the cast of Falsettos has done it before, and so the performers’ leap of faith and courage required to undertake this…