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Performing Arts

Performance Arts have been generally merged into the more classical forms of stagecraft, ie. Ballet, Dance, Opera, Theatre and Gilbert & Sullivan, and are listed by title below. Performing music, both studio and live performance are best found under "Music Capsule". Right: The spectacular troupe of "Cirque du Soleil".

Every Little Step (2008)

7.5/10
Director: James D Stern, Adam Del Deo

For over three decades, there's been one singular sensation: "A Chorus Line", the groundbreaking hit musical inspired by the emotional lives of dancer... Read more

A Midsummer Night's Dream (2008)

6.5/10
Director: Adrian Noble
Starring: Lindsay Duncan, Barry Lynch

Shakespeare's beloved comic romance is once again translated to the screen in this lively adaptation. The fantasy is brought to life by the cream of t... Read more

Chess in Concert (2008)

Director: David Horn
Starring: Adam Pascal, Idina Menzel, Josh Groban

Josh Groban and Idina Menzel star in this engaging live performance of 'Chess', a 1984 concept album from ABBA's Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, an... Read more

Man on Wire (2008)

7.8/10
Director: James Marsh
Starring: Philippe Petit

In 1974, 24 year-old tight-rope walker Philippe Petit performed an illegal high-wire walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Often ref... Read more

The Eternity Man (2008)

6.3/10
Director: Julien Temple
Starring: Grant Doyle, Christa Hughes

For almost 40 years, ex-alcoholic Arthur Stace roamed Sydney writing 'eternity' in perfect copperplate script on the city's pavements. In 2003, Austra... Read more

Rubbings from a Live Man (2008)

7.7/10
Director: Florian Habicht
Starring: Warwick Broadhead

Filmmaker Florian Habicht ('Kaikohe Demolition', 'Woodenhead') takes veteran performer Warwick Broadhead as his subject matter in this captivating bio... Read more

Andre Rieu: Live in Australia (2008)

8.9/10
Starring: Andre Rieu

On a beautiful Melbourne evening in November 2008, an audience of nearly 40,000 witnessed the show of a lifetime. Andre Rieu and his Johann Strauss Or... Read more

Met Opera: Hansel and Gretel (2008)

Director: Barbara Willis Sweete, Richard Jones
Starring: Philip Langridge, Alice Coote, Christine Schafer

Most fairy tales, though charming on the outside, have darker underpinnings. Alice Coote and Christine Schafer play the siblings lost in a shadowy wor... Read more

Met Opera: Manon Lescaut (2008)

Director: Brian Large
Starring: Marcello Giordani, Karita Mattila, Dwayne Croft, Dale Travis

On the heels of her triumph in Jenofa, Finnish phenomenon Karita Mattila adds another landmark role to her Met repertory, the free-spirited beauty Man... Read more

Met Opera: Peter Grimes (2008)

Director: Gary Halvorson, John Doyle
Starring: Anthony Dean Griffey, Patricia Racette, Anthony Michaels-Moore

Peter Grimes is under investigation for unthinkable transgressions, yet Benjamin Britten's probing exploration of the nature of guilt and judgment imp... Read more