Hansel & Gretel- now a spectacular opera

An Opera Review by Victor Grynberg Read more

Cocktail hour with Rosemary Curtin

There is something special about chamber music being heard in a chamber vis-s-vis in a concert hall. Read more

The Watchmaker’s War

Nazis—and their nemesis—surface in 1950s Melbourne     Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Choosing optimism: Eddie Jaku’s story comes to the Sydney Opera House

The extraordinary life and outlook of Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku will be brought to the Sydney Opera House stage in May 2026 with the Australian premiere of The Happiest Man on Earth, a one-man play starring and produced by Anton Berezin.

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Turandot—Terrific

An opera review by Victor Grynberg Read more

We Will Prevail: voices, fury and faith after Bondi

“We Will Prevail” is not a book written in hindsight. It was produced in the immediate wake of terror; while blood was still on the grass near Bondi Beach, many victims were still in hospital, and the shock of what had happened had barely begun to settle.

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My Brilliant Career

A Melbourne Theatre Company production reviewed by Alex First Read more

The Traitors Circle

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Coexistence and other Fighting Words

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Saturday Night Fever

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Partisan Song

Partisan Resilience, Resistance, and Revenge   Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Madama Butterfly………just magnificent

An opera review by Victor Grynberg Read more

The Choral

A movie review by Alex First Read more

CATS

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Anastasia

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

The Housemaid

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Rental Family

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Abundance: How we build a better future

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

On Both Sides of The Wall: A resistance fighter’s firsthand account of the Warsaw Ghetto

A riveting account of Warsaw Ghetto resistance           Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Bernstein and Busoni   

An opera review by Shirley Politzer Read more

Nuremberg

A movie review by Alex First Read more

When the Stones Speak: The remarkable discovery of the City of David and What Israel’s Enemies Don’t Want You to Know

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Wicked: For Good

A movie review by Alex First Read more

JIFF Review – ‘Among Neighbours’ – Surviving the Holocaust, only to face murder at home

Among Neighbours is an engaging documentary that tackles one of the most uncomfortable parts of Holocaust history, the attacks on Jewish survivors who returned to their homes in Polish towns after the war.

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Carmen – an opera review by Alex First

Passion, obsession, desperation, jealousy and rage make for a fiery combination in composer Georges Bizet’s Carmen, newly interpreted by director Anne-Louise Sarks for Opera Australia. Read more

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t

A movie review by Alex First  Read more

The Running Man

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Never Again? How the West betrayed the Jews and itself

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Read more

Dying: A Memoir

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

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