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Courtney Stewart leads La Boite Theatre in Brisbane with a focus on new Australian work by people from diverse communities

As an actor, Courtney Stewart has often struggled to find satisfying parts; as a director, she's been able to flip the script — and never more so than in her new role.

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The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? review – Claudia Karvan stars in bestiality comedy that loses itself in farce

Edward Albee’s 2002 play has a deliberately ridiculous premise – but this production eschews the real issues it could interrogate in favour of broad laughs

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Hubris & Humiliation review – this queer take on Jane Austen is startlingly good

Lewis Treston’s witty and polished play blends Regency language and Australian slang to deliver a dizzying amount of jokes and sizzling romantic tension

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Your ultimate Sydney events guide: the best things to do this weekend, and what’s on through December

Summer in the City is Guardian Australia’s guide to the best arts, gigs and festivals around the country. Here are some highlights for Sydney in December

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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.

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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

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‘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

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RBG: Of Many, One is a beautifully crafted, virtuosically performed play about Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Review: RBG: Of Many, One, directed by Priscilla Jackman, Sydney Theatre Company

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Heather Mitchell plays Ruth Bader Ginsburg: ‘I was even brushing my teeth as Ruth would’

The Australian actor is portraying ‘the notorious RBG’ in a one-woman play. She talks about stepping into the shoes of a judicial lion

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Canberra to miss The Dismissal musical after funding drama, producer says

The musical, based on the events of November 11, 1975, is now unlikely to tour to the ACT.

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Sydney welcomes public to new arts hub

Sydney's $371 million Walsh Bay arts precinct is holding its inaugural open day.

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Julia Gillard: one-woman play starring Play School’s Justine Clarke to debut in 2023

Sydney Theatre Company’s announcement of the work, written by Joanna Murray-Smith, aligns with 10-year anniversary of former PM’s misogyny speech

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The Lifespan of a Fact review – sparky journalism dramedy falls short of big ideas

Sigrid Thornton and Charles Wu star in a rapid-fire play, recounting US essayist John D’Agata’s real-life run-in with a pedantic fact-checker

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Is A Raisin in the Sun just as relevant in 2022 Australia as it was in America in 1959? Some say very much so

The Australian main stage debut of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun offers audiences a reality check, without beating you over the head, according to some of its cast members.

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Sydney Theatre Company’s A Raisin in the Sun is an enormous achievement with superb cast, direction and staging

Review: A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Wesley Enoch for the Sydney Theatre Company.

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Australian theatre makers such as Perth's The Last Great Hunt are blending theatre and cinema to make inventive new work

Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde with just two actors and an on-stage choose-your-own-adventure game are just some of the possibilities of the hybrid form dubbed "cine-theatre".

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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

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With The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the Sydney Theatre Company gives us a Brontë adaptation for our moment

Review: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, directed by Jessica Arthur for the Sydney Theatre Company

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NFSA to stay put in beloved building

He says the institution has plenty going for it and has no need to move.

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Meyne Wyatt doesn’t hold back: ‘I was always a bit of a ratbag’

The actor, playwright and painter may be a polymath – but there’s one role he won’t be taking: politics. ‘You have to kiss arse. Yeah, it’s not my bag’

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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.

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‘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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‘We’re trying to turn the magnet towards optimism’: Cate Blanchett on her new climate crisis podcast

In Climate of Change, old friends actor Cate Blanchett and clean energy entrepreneur Danny Kennedy aim to offer ordinary people real-life solutions to environmental disaster

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Glace Chase writes trans love onto Australian theatre's main stage with Triple X at Sydney Theatre Company

Two-time Griffin Award winner Glace Chase moved to New York and quit writing for theatre. She now returns to Australian stages with the intimate and revealing semi-autobiographical play Triple X.

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