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The Australian Ballet: Carmen

Artistic Director David Hallberg of the Australian Ballet describes Carmen as the most ambitious contemporary production programmed. It’s a performance that wins on every level.

The curtains rises on a blackened stage with a young child (Lilla Harvey) dressed in white, playing with a ball. Suddenly a figure emerges swathed head-to-toe in black, even their face is covered. It’s a menacing, dramatic start and clear this is a version of Carmen like no other.
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Review: Smashed The Nightcap

If you’re looking for a wild and a little bit naughty, late night adventure, Smashed: The Nightcap will certainly satisfy.

The Sydney Festival show is a femme-fronted mixture of cabaret, circus and drag. Featuring a live four-piece band and a troupe of powerful songstresses, circus acts and burlesque performers.

Hostess and award-winning cabaret queen Victoria Falconer is in her element as she canoodles with the audience close up, simultaneously teasing, taunting and titillating.
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Top Summer Rosés

My parents have always been fond of Mateus (a sweet semi-sparkling Rosé from Portugal) so I grew up avoiding this section of the wine list, thinking sickly sweet was the only option for the pink drink (apologies to the Mateus lovers but it’s just not my style!). I’ve since discovered Rosé can be sweet or bone dry and that it’s a wonderful versatile style wine.

Rosé is best sipped chilled and arguably one of the easiest wines to pair with food as it works well with most dishes.
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Review: Australian Ballet, Jewels

The latest performance from The Australian Ballet is an exhilarating tricolour inspired by gemstones – emeralds, rubies, and diamonds.

In 1967, Russian choreographer George Balanchine intentionally created a ‘plotless’ ballet. An abstract, three-act performance, based on a theme. Balanchine, inspired by the jewellery in a Fifth Avenue, New York shop window, carved out three distinct moods, reflective of three precious gems. Each act explores unique periods in the history of his life and career-
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Tajima Yakiniku

Gather your friends and fire up the grill at Sydney’s new Japanese BBQ restaurant.

Located in central Sydney, Tajima Yakiniku is a new high-end Japanese BBQ restaurant. It’s a fun and interactive ‘hands-on cooking’ and dining experience where you grill delicious meats at your table. Yakiniku means “grilled meat” in Japanese and is a style of barbecue where guests cook small pieces of meat (typically beef, pork, or chicken) on a grill at the centre of the table.
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Review: The Mirror

With circus acrobatics, stunts, and cabaret musical performance, The Mirror is a fun show of fearless movements that will have you on the edge of your seat.

Co-commissioned by the Sydney Opera House and Chamäleon Theatre Berlin, the show premiered in Berlin last year and is now open showing at the Sydney Opera House. Created by Australian contemporary circus company Gravity & Other Myths (GOM), the high-energy show is thoroughly entertaining
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Review: Australian Ballet - Instruments of Dance

The perfect taster to the world of ballet

If you’ve been thinking about going to the ballet or have never been and are curious about what it’s like then Instruments of Dance, the latest’s show from the Australian Ballet is the one for you. The triple bill means you will see the works of three different choreographers from the world’s top ballet companies, each with their own artistic style of contemporary ballet.
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Review: L'Hôtel

L’Hôtel is where live performance merges with food, fashion and design within the Sydney Opera House.

Following its successful premiere at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2021, L’Hôtel has come to Sydney. Directed by Craig Ilott of Spiegeltent and Sydney Festival’s multi-award-winning Smoke & Mirrors and Pigalle, L’Hôtel is a masterpiece of cabaret, burlesque, aerial and circus performance.

Set in a Parisian hotel lobby, the show is slowly revealed as the audience dines. This is immersive ent
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Review: NON Wine

It’s no exaggeration to say, alcohol is a big part of culture and connection in Australia and globally. It plays a role in most people’s social lives and social situations. We drink wine when we catch up with friends, we cheer in celebration and toast in solidarity.

With more consideration for well-being and focus on health (especially after the overindulgence seen during the pandemic and throughout the lockdowns), non-alcoholic options are being embraced in a sober movement.
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Review: QT Hotel Has Landed In Newcastle

Quirky, designer hotel QT has opened its first regional hotel in Newcastle and it’s worth the two-hour drive from Sydney.

The five-star hotel is the new star attraction for Newcastle and another notch on the city’s burgeoning travel and dining scene. The modern 104 guest rooms and suites hotel is housed in the iconic 113-year-old David Jones building. Blending old with new, the city’s coal mining and steelworks heritage is recognised via design elements nods in industrial finishes. The hotel’s
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