John Shand Posts

October 17, 2013 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Slide, October 10 A girl from Brisbane follows her dream to all the way to Paris, and becomes a principal dancer at firstly the Moulin Rouge and then the Lido. The dream lasts for 13 years. Shay Stafford’s story is too good not to tell, and there’s a show here,…

October 4, 2013 / Album Reviews - Archive

  Romance De La Luna Tucumana (Cigala Music)  This is how you do it. All those players who cherry-pick from musical cultures, like cooks foolishly adding ingredients to save a sorry dish, should hang their heads in shame. And listen. It helps when you have a voice that is how…

September 30, 2013 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Young love is so easily dismissed by jaded older lovers with multiple (failed) experiences, but a teenager can be consumed by passion much as molten lava devours all in its path. When Juliet is well cast, and the actress truly lives that passion as well as the anguish of her…