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Beyond the Tracks is a joyous celebration of First Nations dance pioneer Michael Leslie

Beyond the Tracks is a vibrant and deeply moving autobiographical work that fuses dance, movement, song and audiovisual storytelling.

The Conversation

Bangarra’s Sheltering is a powerful showcase of First Nations dance and creativity

Frances Rings’ artistic directorship of Bangarra Dance Theatre’s shines through the company’s new triple-bill production, Sheltering.

The Conversation

Dracula: Cynthia Erivo is extraordinary in this one-woman multimedia show

4/5 Kip Williams’ production at the Noël Coward Theatre is a spectacular star vehicle for Erivo which brings Bram Stoker’s tale right into the horrific present

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Will McDonald On His Eshay Inspiration & Kissing Heartbreak High Goodbye

When Netflix’s Heartbreak High reboot became a global smash hit, it not only catapulted a group of previously unknown Aussie talents into the spotlight, it also introduced the world to a uniquely Australian stereotype: the humble eshay. Ca$h, played by Will McDonald, was initially your typical eshay – living his…

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Myth meets modernity in Aphrodite, a striking opera that dissects the links between beauty, power and desire

A new opera by American composer Nico Muhly is reimagining the myth of Aphrodite through a contemporary lens, exploring beauty, desire and identity in a strikingly relevant way.

The Conversation

New Australian opera Gilgamesh captures the power of one of the world’s most ancient masterpieces

Gilgamesh, a new opera from Opera Australia, Sydney Chamber Opera and Carriageworks, gives a visceral retelling of a story from a forgotten age, exploring ideas of love, tyranny and what it means to be human.

The Conversation

Sydney Theatre Company’s Dracula: a virtuosic performance, sexy staging, and a queer rewriting

The figure of Dracula has always lived somewhere between the written word, screen projections and our fantasy lives. His story is tailor-made for one of Kip Williams’ hybrid adaptations.

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Cold Chisel adds Hunter Valley show to Big 5-0 anniversary tour

Ticket demand 'was bigger than anything we've ever seen'.

Newcastle Herald

Fred Again at Sydney Opera House review – a record-breaking, turbocharged night

About 125,000 people tried to get tickets for this surprise show, announced by the savvy British DJ on the day – and the result was a direct hit to the brain’s pleasure centres

The Guardian - AU

Laneway festival 2024 review – Stormzy electrifies against the odds at Sydney Showgrounds

The festival is touring around Australia and New Zealand this week – hopefully in venues that are better suited to the vibe

The Guardian - AU

Josh Thomas: Let’s Tidy Up review – comedian returns to the stage with stories of ADHD and autism

In his new show, the creator of Please Like Me and Everything’s Gonna Be Okay takes stock of his life after two diagnoses – and interrogates whether he should, or even can, change

The Guardian - AU

Australia on stage: the best theatre, musicals, dance and opera of 2023

From ballet to Afrofuturism to a world-class immersive spectacle, Guardian Australia critics pick out the best live stage experiences of the year

The Guardian - AU

The moment I knew: ‘As we embraced, he suggested we get burgers’

From the beginning, Rhys Nicholson’s relationship with his now-husband Kyran was built on minutiae, the kind of little details that mean the world

The Guardian - AU

Dr Frank N Furter brings Jason Donovan's rock star dream to life in The Rocky Horror Show

'I didn't set out to be a musical theatre star, that's for sure.'

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Taylor Mac: Bark of Millions review – a bombastic queer history, told over 55 songs

This four-hour musical-opera-variety show from the celebrated US performer is a moving, witty, extravagant exercise in pure pleasure and spectacle

The Conversation

Guide to the classics: Ruth Park’s Harp in the South is a story about Aboriginal Country

Ruth Park’s novel The Harp in the South (1948) is a classic of Australian fiction. Just as television viewers in recent decades would recognise “Ramsay Street” as the fictional centre of Australia’s longest-running television soap opera Neighbours, earlier generations of readers would have recognised with affection “Twelve-and-a-half Plymouth Street”: the…

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Sydney Opera House: 85,000 oyster shells tell of site’s true story in major public artwork

Quandamooka artist Megan Cope oversaw the hand-polishing, threading and mounting of the shells in a collaborative work that recognises the recent and ancient history of Bennelong Point

The Canberra Times

Canberran hits the stage in Disney classic

The new Disney production is at Sydney's Capitol Theatre.

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The Visitors review – Wesley Enoch at his best in play that thrums with fresh potency

Jane Harrison’s play tells of the first fleet landing from the perspective of the First Nations people watching. It’s a story set in the past – but its most potent questions are about the future

The Conversation

Sydney Theatre Company's new The Importance of Being Earnest: fresh, funny and completely joyous

It is easy to forget that when Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was first written and performed in February 1895, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was already 16 years old. Both plays, in different ways, expose the foundations of society (marriage; class; money; property) to searching critique.

Newcastle Herald

Newcastle actor and singer stars in Disney's Beauty and the Beast The Musical

'Being part of a Disney musical is a dream come true.'

The Guardian - AU

Sweeney Todd review – a solid, haunting take on Sondheim’s demon barber

Drama theatre, Sydney Opera HouseThis dark and theatrical production doesn’t carve out new territory but its commanding cast deliver a crowd pleaser

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I can't imagine anybody would come out of On The Beach and not hold their loved ones just that little bit closer

Review: On The Beach, directed by Kip Williams.

The Guardian - AU

On the Beach review – an achingly beautiful depiction of the end of the world

The Picture of Dorian Gray director Kip Williams has taken a more simple approach with Nevil Shute’s novel and the result is stirring and sad

The Guardian - AU

Beauty and the Beast review – Disney’s Australian production soars on stage

Full of boisterous numbers and deeply felt emotion, Shubshri Kandiah and Brendan Xavier lead a wonderful ensemble through a tale as old as time

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