Arts Wednesday - Eastside Radio

Arts Wednesday - Eastside Radio Paul & Anthony bring you an Arts program every Wednesday 10.30. Arts news, reviews plus interviews Sometimes it is a reflection of the interview on the day.

The program focuses on the local art world; everything from visual art, dance and theatre, to everyone from artists, curators, and gallerists, to archeologists, musicologists and politicians and their government sponsored community art programs. We enjoy an eclectic mix of music that interweaves itself through the show: some electronica, new jazz, classical, world, and ambient sound scapes. Getti

ng too the crux of what it is they - the guest - does, and thinks; their passions and what inspires them...and if we are lucky, according to their scheme like seers they they will tell us what the the future holds, and perhaps even, advise for the young at heart.

A Chinese Christmas started life in the mind of Trent Foo as a love letter to his grandma. He wrote and stars in the pla...
17/12/2025

A Chinese Christmas started life in the mind of Trent Foo as a love letter to his grandma. He wrote and stars in the play that is a delightful tale of family, magic and Christmas with a strong Chinese flavour. Until 20 December at KXT on Broadway

https://eastsidefm.org/review-a-chinese-christmas/

16 December 2025 KXT Theatre on Broadway FooFrame Productions with bAKEHOUSE Theatre Co Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Photography by Robert Miniter A Chinese Christmas started life in the mind of Trent Foo as a love letter to his grandma. He wrote and stars in the play that is a delightful....

Bell Shakespeare’s extended 3 month national tour of Romeo and Juliet has taken them to nearly every capital city and ma...
21/11/2025

Bell Shakespeare’s extended 3 month national tour of Romeo and Juliet has taken them to nearly every capital city and many regional centres around the country. And now they complete the tour with almost 3 weeks at the Playhouse Theatre in the Sydney Opera House.

20 November 2025 Playhouse Theatre, Sydney Opera House Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Photos by Brett Boardman Written over 400 years ago, Romeo and Juliet has permeated our culture in ballet, pop music, art, film and literature. And this is due to Shakespeare’s genius in portraying the hu...

There are two exhibitions on now at different galleries featuring the work of one this country’s most gifted painters in...
19/11/2025

There are two exhibitions on now at different galleries featuring the work of one this country’s most gifted painters in the Romantic style, Euan Macleod. Glacier at S.H. Ervin Gallery, and Now and Then at King Street Gallery on William.

https://eastsidefm.org/review-euan-macleod/

Glacier. S. H. Ervin Gallery. I8 November – 14 December. Then & Now. King Street Gallery on William. 18 November – 13 December Review by Anthony Frater. Arts Wednesday. There are two exhibitions on now at different galleries featuring the work of one this country’s most gifted painters in the ...

The Bach Akademie Australia performed all six Brandenburg Concertos in one spellbinding concert at the intimate and acou...
16/11/2025

The Bach Akademie Australia performed all six Brandenburg Concertos in one spellbinding concert at the intimate and acoustically perfect venue, The Neilson, ACO on the Pier. And the musicians chosen to perform the solo and ripieno parts were the who’s who of period instrument exponents of Australia.

https://eastsidefm.org/review-bach-akademie-australia-plays-all-6-brandenburg-concertos/

Saturday 15 November, 2025 Bach Akademie Australia The Neilson, ACO on the Pier Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Photos by Keith Saunders It would have to be one of the most famous, most creative and ultimately unsuccessful job applications in history. In 1719, not long after the death of his....

Polish pianist, Piotr Anderszewski returns to our shores for Musica Viva Australia in a series of recitals featuring mu...
11/11/2025

Polish pianist, Piotr Anderszewski returns to our shores for Musica Viva Australia in a series of recitals featuring music by three German greats – Brahms, Bach and Beethoven – representing music from the Romantic, Baroque and Classical eras respectively. Interestingly the pieces chosen by our soloist were all composed, not at the end, but late in the careers of the composers.

Monday 10 November, 2025 Musica Viva Australia City Recital Hall Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Photos by Claudia Raschella Polish pianist, Piotr Anderszewski returns to our shores for Musica Viva Australia in a series of recitals featuring music by three German greats – Brahms, Bach and B...

In a blaze of black glittering tule our larger-than-life maître d’, Le Gateau Chocolat as Jean Cocteau reincarnated, bu...
10/11/2025

In a blaze of black glittering tule our larger-than-life maître d’, Le Gateau Chocolat as Jean Cocteau reincarnated, bustled centre-stage to set the scene: 1920’s Paris “where the streets are full of rats and American soldiers”, a between-wars world teaming with poets, artists and writers at the dawn of the jazz era, where subversion in all its forms is the mode de jour. A world where artistic, moral and gender rigidity is being dissolved in the bubbles of champagne.

Saturday 8 November, 2025 City Recital Hall Australian Chamber Orchestra Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) The Australian Chamber Orchestra are famous for their innovation and risk-taking programming, but in their theatrical production of Cocteau’s Circle they ventured beyond their comfort zo...

The Paddington Art Prize is on once again. In its 22nd year it’s always a highly anticipated event and this year was no ...
17/10/2025

The Paddington Art Prize is on once again. In its 22nd year it’s always a highly anticipated event and this year was no exception.

Art Leven Gallery. 17 Thurlow Street, Redfern. Exhibition Dates: 16 October – 25 October Review by Anthony Frater (Arts Wednesday) The Paddington Art Prize is on once again. In its 22nd year it’s always a highly anticipated event and this year was no exception. The prize is a $30,000 National Ac...

Bravo to Nick Wales and Rrawun Maymuru for realising Paul Dyer’s vision so effectively and transporting us into a brave ...
15/10/2025

Bravo to Nick Wales and Rrawun Maymuru for realising Paul Dyer’s vision so effectively and transporting us into a brave new world where cultures separated by vast distance and millennia combine so fluently, and where old meets ancient to become new and fresh. Australian Brandenburg Orchestra season runs to October 18.

Tuesday 14 October 2025 Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Rrawun Maymuru City Recital Hall Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) How do you combine music that is 300 years old with a music tradition that is more than 30,000 years old? This is the challenge ABO Artistic Director, Paul Dyer set compos...

Musica Viva Australia has invited another world class chamber ensemble to our shores with UK based Trio Insimsiz, a pian...
14/10/2025

Musica Viva Australia has invited another world class chamber ensemble to our shores with UK based Trio Insimsiz, a piano trio with a perfection of tone, phrasing and emotional depth that can only come from 16 years of performing together and living and breathing as one. Their ability to make three instruments sound like anything from a small orchestra to the most intimate chamber music demonstrates their consummate skill and musicianship.

Monday 13 October 2025 City Recital Hall Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Musica Viva Australia has invited another world class chamber ensemble to our shores with UK based Trio Insimsiz, a piano trio with a perfection of tone, phrasing and emotional depth that can only come from 16 years of p...

What a powerful solo performance by Samuel Addison as a conflicted gay boxer that had us pinned to the floor for the ent...
09/10/2025

What a powerful solo performance by Samuel Addison as a conflicted gay boxer that had us pinned to the floor for the entire bout. The intimate space of the Flight Path Theatre in Marrickville only heightened the sense of entrapment that our hero Flynn was portraying.

8 October 2025 Flight Path Theatre, Marrickville Feet First Collective Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) What a powerful solo performance by Samuel Addison as a conflicted gay boxer that had us pinned to the floor for the entire bout. The intimate space of the Flight Path Theatre in Marrickvill...

Ruins أطلال is a play like no other I have seen. The theatrical language is foreign, but somehow familiar. It took only ...
03/10/2025

Ruins أطلال is a play like no other I have seen. The theatrical language is foreign, but somehow familiar. It took only minutes to understand its peculiar dialect and delight in the exotic nature of its delivery, and what incredible rewards it delivered. Congratulations to the ensemble cast and crew for reinventing the very language of theatre. It may be considered experimental for now, but may well become the lingua franca of the future.
Centre until 18 October.
Clockfire Theatre Company

https://eastsidefm.org/review-ruins-أطلال-at-the-seymour/

Wednesday 1 October 2025 Seymour Centre Clockfire Theatre Company Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Having reviewed many contemporary dance performances, Ruins could have been devised by Bangarra Dance or Sydney Dance Company, only this theatrical work has a script and dialogue. Equally surpris...

The AWO brings together Aussie musicians who play in the leading orchestras of the world. In this concert they play not ...
05/09/2025

The AWO brings together Aussie musicians who play in the leading orchestras of the world. In this concert they play not 1 but 2 Mahler Symphonies at the Sydney Opera House.

https://eastsidefm.org/review-australian-world-orchestra-mahlerfest/

Thursday 4 September 2025 Sydney Opera House The Australian World Orchestra Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) More words have been written about Gustav Mahler’s 4th and 5th Symphonies than the number of notes in both works combined. Given that they are scored for around 100 musicians and they...

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