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Gaza responses cause division in arts community

Gaza responses cause division in arts community

The conflict in Gaza is causing division in the arts community, with a third resignation from the STC as Anna Schwartz Gallery parts ways with Mike Parr.

Roll up, roll up, the circus is back in town

Roll up, roll up, the circus is back in town

Roll up, roll up, the circus is back in town

Roll up, roll up, the circus is back in town

Circus 1903, which features giant elephant puppets, is returning to Sydney after playing 400 cities around the world.

Theatre company acts after Palestine protest backlash

Theatre company acts after Palestine protest backlash

Theatre company acts after Palestine protest backlash

Theatre company acts after Palestine protest backlash

The Sydney Theatre Company has apologised for the way it has responded to a protest by actors at an opening night performance.

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Dark Mofo has a laugh with launch of comedy festival

Dark Mofo has a laugh with launch of comedy festival

The team behind Tasmanian midwinter arts event Dark Mofo is launching a comedy festival, despite cancelling Dark Mofo for 2024.

High-tech magic show leaves nothing up its sleeve

High-tech magic show leaves nothing up its sleeve

Audiences use their phones during the performance at an interactive magic show that encourages people to participate in a game-like experience.

Monstrously big production of Frankenstein premieres

Monstrously big production of Frankenstein premieres

A new adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Shake & Stir theatre company is premiering in Brisbane.

National search to unearth fresh teen acting talent

National search to unearth fresh teen acting talent

A national talent search is giving aspiring teen actors the chance to perform in front of a Hollywood casting director.

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Pro wrestlers body slam Norse mythology in Fringe show

Pro wrestlers body slam Norse mythology in Fringe show

Pro wrestlers body slam Norse mythology in Fringe show

Pro wrestlers body slam Norse mythology in Fringe show

Tales of Viking legend will be performed by a cast of professional wrestlers in a muscular take on Norse mythology at Melbourne's Fringe Festival.

Trans theatre tour a first for mainstage production

Trans theatre tour a first for mainstage production

Trans theatre tour a first for mainstage production

Trans theatre tour a first for mainstage production

Overflow is the first Australian mainstage production by an all trans and gender diverse cast and crew, and it's touring to Melbourne and Brisbane.

Bell chimes in with a Succession plan fit for a king

Bell chimes in with a Succession plan fit for a king

Bell chimes in with a Succession plan fit for a king

Bell chimes in with a Succession plan fit for a king

Bell Shakespeare is staging its first production of the Bard's classic play King Lear in 13 years, as part of its 2024 season.

Fangs very much for this classic case of stage fright

Fangs very much for this classic case of stage fright

Fangs very much for this classic case of stage fright

Fangs very much for this classic case of stage fright

The Sydney Theatre Company's next play in Australian director Kip Williams' acclaimed gothic cine-theatre genre will be Bram Stoker's Dracula.

My Brilliant Career takes musical turn in Melbourne

My Brilliant Career takes musical turn in Melbourne

My Brilliant Career takes musical turn in Melbourne

My Brilliant Career takes musical turn in Melbourne

The Melbourne Theatre Company's 2024 season features a musical adaptation of My Brilliant Career.

Constitutional crisis fodder for serious musical comedy

Constitutional crisis fodder for serious musical comedy

Constitutional crisis fodder for serious musical comedy

Constitutional crisis fodder for serious musical comedy

A new musical comedy recounts the sacking of Gough Whitlam through the eyes of hapless TV reporter Norman Gunston.

Long road from Goodooga to stage for First Nations play

Long road from Goodooga to stage for First Nations play

Long road from Goodooga to stage for First Nations play

Long road from Goodooga to stage for First Nations play

A new Indigenous theatre production inspired by the tiny New South Wales border town of Goodooga is set to open in Brisbane.

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Beetlejuice musical to spook Melbourne in Aust premiere

Melbourne's Regent Theatre will host the Australian premiere of the musical adaption of Tim Burton's 1988 film Beetlejuice, after it turned heads on Broadway.

Vote one Randy: purple comic takes a tilt at politics

Australian comedic puppet Randy Feltface is giving up the international comedy circuit and having a go at politics. After all, he has some opinions to share.

Snook bound for West End in Australian hit Dorian Gray

Succession's Sarah Snook will take Sydney Theatre Company's groundbreaking one-woman show The Picture of Dorian Gray to London's West End.

Puppet opera on water features in Adelaide Festival

The Robert Lepage production of The Nightingale and Other Fables will form the centrepiece of the upcoming Adelaide Festival.

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On a mission from God: MTC stages a voyage of vengeance

Is God Is opens at the Melbourne Theatre Company with a tale of familial revenge.

Immersive underwater show farewells historic theatre

The latest production from Broad Encounters, Love Lust Lost, will be the last staged at a former theatre and dance hall in Melbourne.

Tony Awards telecast make inclusive history amid strike

Kimberly Akimbo, about a teenager who ages in reverse, and Tom Stoppard's autobiographical Leopoldstadt were among the winners at the Tony Awards.

Lloyd Webber fears for future of Broadway due to costs

British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber says high running costs are turning New York's famous Broadway theatre district into only hosting "very big hits".

Opera Australia launches Sydney season of Enlightenment

Opera Australia's interim creative director has programmed 18th century classics for its summer season at the Sydney Opera House.

LaPaglia's Aussie stage debut in Death of a Salesman

Acclaimed actor Anthony LaPaglia makes his Australian theatre debut in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, directed by Neil Armfield.

Australian stage classic brings snow to Sydney

Ice and isolation bring a wintry chill to Patricia Cornelius’ award-winning play, Do Not Go Gentle, in the latest Sydney Theatre Company production.

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