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Kate Mulvany returns to the stage after Amazon's Hunters to star as Sarah Bernhardt in Melbourne Theatre Company's Bernhardt/Hamlet

Actor and writer Kate Mulvany has recently played a Nazi-hunting nun for Amazon and an artist accused of murder for Foxtel. Now, she returns to the stage.

ABC News

‘Urgent listening is needed’: Australian theatre asks artists to advise them on diversity

In industry first, Melbourne Theatre Company has formed an advisory council of artists including Zoë Coombs Marr, Tony Briggs and Patricia Cornelius

The Guardian - AU

Creatives call on the University of Melbourne to streamline freelance payments

Freelance artists are calling on the University of Melbourne to streamline the payment system for independent contractors, saying the current process is a "distressing … administrative ordeal".

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An imaginative unfolding of a life, a new play asks: would Sidney Nolan have become the artist he became if not for Sunday Reed?

Review: Sunday, directed by Sarah Goodes, Melbourne Theatre Company

The Conversation

Sunday review – a masterful and moving portrait of a woman who railed against conformity

This world-class production anchored by superb central performances brings Sunday Reed back to shimmering, incandescent life

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

Anne-Louise Sarks puts women centrestage in her first Melbourne Theatre Company season as artistic director

The first season from Anne-Louise Sarks features plays about a bohemian art museum founder, the way the legal system fails women, and two sisters seeking revenge.

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Witty and relevant, a stage adaptation of Alice Pung's Laurinda is filled with intelligence and humour

Review: Laurinda, directed by Petra Kalive.

The Conversation

Laurinda takes the stage: ‘Private school culture needs to change – the insularity, the entitlement’

Author Alice Pung and the two minds behind a new adaptation reflect on the beloved story of a girl navigating high school – Mean Girls meets Fight Club, with an Asian-Australian twist

The Guardian - AU

Come Rain or Come Shine review – a fine cast shines in Tim Finn’s clunky musical

With moments of great humour and strong performances, this comedy is an entertaining, if occasionally disappointing, way to spend a couple of hours

The Guardian - AU

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.

ABC News

The show must go on: How Australia’s performing arts sector has survived two years of COVID

After two years of cancellations and billions of dollars lost, we take stock of the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on Australia’s performing arts and the challenges ahead.

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