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Trigger warning triggers laughs in this expectation-defying play

Jan 8, 2025 | smh.com.au | Joyce Morgan |Chantal Nguyen

By Joyce Morgan and Chantal Nguyen January 9, 2025 — 12.11pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THEATREMULTIPLE BAD THINGSSydney Opera House, January 8Until January 12Reviewed by JOYCE MORGAN★★★½It begins with a trigger warning. But just as you expect a brief, predictable list of theatrical content liable to offend, actor Simon Laherty delivers an extensive laundry list.
What went wrong for Crowded House in the first half of their gig?

Dec 4, 2024 | smh.com.au | Chantal Nguyen |Shamim Razavi |John Shand

By Chantal Nguyen, Shamim Razavi and John Shand December 5, 2024 — 1.49pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. MUSICCrowded HouseSydney Opera House Forecourt, December 4Reviewed by SHAMIM RAZAVI★★★There are two Houses playing tonight, both of them Crowded. The first is jumbled, distracted and disparate while the other brims with life, its denizens united in musical mastery.
Award-winning dancer took Europe by storm – but something was missing

Dec 3, 2024 | watoday.com.au | Chantal Nguyen

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Award-winning dancer took Europe by storm – but something was missing

Dec 3, 2024 | theage.com.au | Chantal Nguyen

By Chantal Nguyen December 4, 2024 — 5.33am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In 2013, dancer Piran Scott moved from Australia to Europe, where he had a dream decade as a soloist with Germany’s Leipzig Ballet and Switzerland’s Ballet Theater Basel. In 2022, he was named tanz magazine’s Dancer of the Year.
Tears amid the bows after the performance of a lifetime

Nov 9, 2024 | smh.com.au | Peter McCallum |James Jennings |Chantal Nguyen |Teen Jesus

By Peter McCallum, James Jennings and Chantal Nguyen November 10, 2024 — 12.15pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. OscarSydney Opera House, November 8Until November 23Reviewed by CHANTAL NGUYEN★★★★Can the life and times of Oscar Wilde – a man so famous for his words – translate to ballet, a wordless artform?
Composer and musician Qais Essar

Oct 18, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Chantal Nguyen

Afghan American Qais Essar was about 15 years old, an ordinary urban high schooler in Arizona, when the September 11 attacks happened. The tragedy changed him forever. It was, he recalls, “one of the big defining moments” of his life. Born in the United States to Afghan parents who had fled Kabul as political exiles, Essar was raised Muslim and grew up as one of the only Afghan kids in his all-American neighbourhood.
Gilgamesh showcases a powerful combination of Australian creative talent

Oct 4, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Chantal Nguyen

A lot of characters take off their clothes in Gilgamesh, Opera Australia and Sydney Chamber Opera’s first collaboration. It’s a fitting – if coincidental – nod to the story surrounding the discovery of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world’s oldest known narrative poem. Dating as far back as 2100BC, the poem tells the tale of Gilgamesh, a mythic Mesopotamian hero probably based on a historical figure who ruled Uruk, a Sumerian city-state, in about 2900BC.
Sparkly, silly and very camp – this is one for the Celine Dion true believers

Sep 21, 2024 | smh.com.au | Chantal Nguyen

By Chantal Nguyen September 21, 2024 — 10.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. TitaniqueThe Grand Electric, September 22 until November 3Reviewed by CHANTAL NGUYEN★★★½I didn’t even have to see Titanique the musical to start chuckling. The marketing taglines alone were hysterical: “Nothing on earth could come between Jack and Rose. Except Céline Dion.”If that sounds like an excuse for a camp fever dream, you are right.
Sunflowers make small moves to maximize sun exposure-physicists can model them to predict how they grow

Sep 16, 2024 | phys.org | Chantal Nguyen

Most of us aren't spending our days watching our houseplants grow. We see their signs of life only occasionally—a new leaf unfurled, a stem leaning toward the window.
Two Deputy Directors Depart Manatee County Utilities

Sep 14, 2024 | thebradentontimes.com | Dawn Kitterman |Merab Favorite |Chantal Nguyen

TBT Exclusive Posted Saturday, September 14, 2024 10:59 am MANATEE COUNTY — This week, Manatee County Government said goodbye to a 20-year employee, and in three weeks, an additional official will also serve their last day with the organization.