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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

The Guardian - AU

Tina: the Tina Turner musical review – Ruva Ngwenya is a revelation in a muddled show

Racism, family violence, addiction and attempted suicide is a lot for a sparkly jukebox musical – and this is a little clunky. But its star is transcendent

The Guardian - AU

Ruva Ngwenya on becoming Tina Turner: ‘It is truly a triple threat’s role’

The actor and singer spoke to the Guardian about embodying an icon – and the teenage ‘party trick’ that became a career

The Guardian - AU

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60 years of The Australian Ballet and 90 years of 'Australian' ballet: Identity asks us to reflect on Australian dance today

When The Australian Ballet was founded in 1962, its charter stated that, alongside international repertoire and visiting international choreographers, it must engage Australian choreographers and produce Australian works.

The Conversation

Fences review – Australian debut of August Wilson play is a remarkable achievement

Wharf 1, Sydney Theatre CompanyThe STC’s production of the Pulitzer-winning play, about a flawed patriarch wrestling with self-destruction, is lead by a uniformly excellent cast

The Guardian - AU

Musical stars say Rockhampton's unique theatre scene made them better performers

Despite growing up hundreds of kilometres from a capital city, Kara Lane, Gretel Scarlett, and Lorinda May Merrypor say their formative years in this Queensland city helped shape their future success.

ABC News

& Juliet review – queer joy and pop delirium as Shakespeare gets a Max Martin makeover

Featuring the songs of Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and beyond, the Australian premiere of the global hit drew multiple ovations (and a few singalongs)

The Guardian - AU

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Partying v politics: has Sydney WorldPride found the right balance?

In the southern hemisphere for the first time, the global festival has showcased a tension common to pride: one between inclusivity, activism and celebration

The Guardian - AU

These Sydney WorldPride artists are some of Australia's most innovative and boundary-pushing creatives

ABC Arts has dug into the Sydney WorldPride program to introduce you to some of Australia’s most radical and thought-provoking creatives.

ABC News

We've been editing Shakespeare's plays for 400 years – but does a new Australian production of The Tempest idealise the Bard?

Review: The Tempest, directed by Kip Williams, Sydney Theatre Company.

The Conversation

The Tempest review – Shakespeare gets a radical edit from Sydney Theatre Company

Richard Roxburgh as Prospero and Guy Simon as Caliban are outstanding in Kip Williams’ latest production, which takes a revolutionary approach to the script

The Guardian - AU

‘People now trust that my ideas work’: is this Australia’s most acclaimed theatre director?

Kip Williams has revolutionised the stage with his use of ‘cine-theatre’, in shows such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and Jekyll and Hyde. Ahead of his take on The Tempest, he talks about his fast rise

The Guardian - AU

The Lovers review – Shakespeare musical charms, but doesn’t always deliver

The Playhouse, Sydney Opera HouseBell Shakespeare’s first ever musical puts some pop into A Midsummer Night’s Dream – and it is good fun, if you don’t think too hard about it

The Guardian - AU

Sydney festival 2023: Town Hall to be filled with 26 tonnes of sand for program showpiece

The heritage building’s floor will be covered in sand for an award-winning opera – one of a few architectural landmarks that will get a new life this summer

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Brisbane, don't throw away your shot, Hamilton is heading your way

The smash hit musical Hamilton is coming to Queensland's capital – if you want to be in the room where it happens, here's everything you need to know.

The Guardian - AU

Phantom of the Opera review – a grittier revamp of the timeless phenomenon is still a one-in-a-million treat

While a more sophisticated take on the classic set slightly dampens the spectacle of old theatre magic, it’s the music truly brings the thrills

The Conversation

Jekyll and Hyde: a tale of doubles, disguises, and our warring desires

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

The Conversation

A production to satisfy Sydney's darkest imaginings: Sydney Theatre Company's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Review: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, directed by Kip Williams for Sydney Theatre Company

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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde review – acclaimed Dorian Gray team takes on another classic

Kip Williams’ new high-tech production is occasionally overwhelmed and treads well-worn territory – but the story lands just when it needs to

The Guardian - AU

Top Coat review – race swap comedy struggles to balance jokes with lessons

Sydney Theatre Company, NSWMichelle Law’s new play, which sees a white media professional swap bodies with her Asian nail technician, has both joyful moments and didactic dialogue

The Conversation

With 9 Broadway musicals currently on Australian stages, musical theatre is thriving again

With nine Broadway musicals currently playing on Australian stages – and a further three set to open or reopen in coming months – audiences could be forgiven for thinking “what pandemic?”

ABC News

Bangarra Dance Theatre’s incoming artistic director Frances Rings takes over later this year, but first she revives the award-winning Terrain

Frances Rings joined the contemporary Indigenous dance company in 1993 and, after nearly three decades, will take the helm as the company’s first Indigenous woman artistic director later this year.

The Guardian - AU

Mary Poppins the Musical review – practically perfect and packed with delights

Stefanie Jones is a faultless Poppins in a fresh, wonderfully cast show that will delight families with its comedy and magic – albeit with one misstep

ABC News

Portrait of an artist: The making, unravelling and reinvention of Eryn Jean Norvill

The actor at the centre of the Geoffrey Rush vs The Daily Telegraph defamation trial is finally finding fame — and acclaim — for the ‘right’ reasons: her art.

The Guardian - AU

‘My experience was not #MeToo, it was #HerToo’: Eryn Jean Norvill on her life-changing return to the stage

Three years after being an unwilling protagonist in a media circus, the actor reflects on her career-defining turn in Dorian Gray – and what comes next

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