Review: ROMÉO ET JULIETTE at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
by Barry Lenny - October 24, 2025
Charles Gounod took Shakespeare’s tale of the star-crossed lovers and adapted it to create the 1867 opera, Roméo et Juliette, with an overture and Shakespeare’s explanatory prologue, delivered by the chorus, followed by a five-act opera, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. ...
Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC at ARTS Theatre
by Barry Lenny - September 30, 2025
The hills are alive with the sound of music and the Arts Theatre is alive with The Sound of Music, in this most enjoyable production from the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Now, this is not the film. All your old familiar songs are there, but sometimes in a slightly different context. There’s a new d...
Review: CATS at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
by Barry Lenny - September 26, 2025
Almost forty years ago, in 1987, I happened to be sent on a training course in Melbourne, when Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, Cats, had its run in Sydney and been transferred to Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre, and I took advantage of the opportunity to buy a ticket to see the performance....
by Barry Lenny - September 16, 2025
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