PamWalker Archive

Circus 1903: The Golden Age of Circus delivers on what a trip to the circus promised for centuries: awesome entertainment in the true sense of the word. Elegant, engaging and often funny, the Simon Painter and Tim Lawson world-premiere collaboration between The …

If you haven’t done it yet, make the effort to see Ben Elton’s We will Rock You at the Sydney Lyric Theatre before the season ends on June 26. It wasn’t exactly what I expected but the two-and-a-half-hour show delivers the music …

Vortex Temporum, at Carriageworks until January 18 as part of the Sydney Festival, is brilliant in the same way as an ingenuous mathematical formula. Everything about the work, which sets out to explore sound and time, is circular – from the concentric …

Marrugeku’s Cut the Sky is a thought-provoking work that challenges the human race to change its attitude to the Earth before it’s too late. This major new work from Broome’s internationally acclaimed dance-theatre company Marrugeku is an impassioned plea to regard the land as the …

Grammy-nominated three-piece, The Tiger Lillies, is one of the more interesting acts at this year’s Sydney Festival performing to full houses in the Famous Spiegeltent. The show falls somewhere between a circus act and a gypsy troupe that astounds with the range …

There’s a very good reason Meow Meow’s shows sell out so quickly: she’s indisputably fabulous. Her latest show, Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid, which premiered at this year’s Sydney Festival, delights audiences with another impeccable virtuoso performance that doesn’t miss a beat. Part …

Most fans of the Rolling Stones see Keith Richards as the epitome of everything the band stands for. He is the really cool dude despite the glamour and notoriety that surrounds frontman Mick Jagger. Sydney playwright Benito Di Fonzo evidently shares that …

RL 2015 Finals Week Two And how’s your team doing? Possibly better than mine; they enjoyed their mad Monday this week. And here are my expert tips for this week’s games: Friday night at Allianz, in this week’s first sudden death semi-final, it …

The lights come on and a countdown begins, to what we don’t know. A solitary figure stands on stage, framed by a wide circle of light fittings that resemble a 1950s idea of the inside of a space ship. The lanky skinny guy …

When an unknown neighbour knocks on your door asking the name of the band that played at your party on Saturday night, you know you’re on to a good thing. It’s even better that the neighbour is himself a musician, a bass …