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A performer in a white jumpsuit with rainbow trim. Swirling around them are two rainbow ribbons.

Performance review: Yummy: Joy Machine, FRINGE WORLD

High-voltage drag cabaret.

Tiffany Barton

Jan 22, 2025

Luke Belle as Adore Händel. They are have a white beehive wig on, white makeup and are wearing a pink costume.

Performance review: Adore Händel’s Little Black Book, FRINGE WORLD

High art, high camp and hijinks.

Tiffany Barton

Jan 22, 2025

Miss Ellaneous wearing drag as Tina Turner. They are on the middle of the stage wearing a short sparkly dress.

Performance review: Tina – A Tropical Love Story, Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney Festival

Breaking the well-worn mould of the tribute show, this dazzling production excels in its capacity to generate joy.

Peter Hackney

Jan 16, 2025

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ArtsHub’s 2025 season guide to the performing arts

Our rolling guide to the 2025 season announcements you may have missed.

Richard Watts

Jan 8, 2025

A woman wearing a Santa costume with enormous layers of skirt surrounding her.

Performance review: F Christmas, Malthouse Theatre

The antidote to traditional Christmas schmaltz.

Nina Culley

Dec 5, 2024

A publicity image for 'Troy', one of seven productions in Malthouse Theatre's 2025 season. A multi-racial cast of seven, including men in skirts and women in tunics reminiscent of ancient Greece, link hands as they struggle across a dramatically lit and smoky battlefield.

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Malthouse Theatre eschews naturalism in its 2025 season

Addressing the cost of living and leaning into the theatrical, the Malthouse’s new season promises the epic and the intimate…

Richard Watts

Oct 9, 2024

A woman, Sahara Beck, wearing a white and black outfit is standing with a microphone. A drag queen in a black leotard, is standing beside her, back to back.

Performance review: Bite Club: 2nd Serve, Arts Centre Melbourne

The Brief's Factory troupe returns to entertain and scandalise with their circus tricks.

Thuy On

Sep 26, 2024

Two grey haired women sit behind a long table with their hands clasped in front of them and a red backdrop behind. On the left Susie Dee has a messy bun, glasses and a light brown scarf. On the right Patricia Cornelius wears a black jumper.

Features

The 60-somethings ruling the roost this Melbourne Fringe

To borrow the words of the Bard (and Enobarbus), age cannot wither them, nor custom stale their infinite variety.

Stephen A Russell

Sep 23, 2024

A scene from 'Jean Paul Gaultier's Fashion Freak Show' at Brisbane Festival, featuring an array of performers dressed in colourful designs posing on a catwalk, surrounded by seated audience members.

Festival review: Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show, South Bank Piazza

This semi-autobiographical stage show exploring the French fashion designer’s life and career is visually splendid but, ironically, lacking in theatrical…

Richard Watts

Sep 10, 2024

Melt 2024 first program reveal – Club Broadway: A Wicked Halloween Ball. Photo: Supplied. A digitally rendered image featuring a witch in black at the centre, floating into an eerie green background surrounded by bats and phantoms.

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Melt gets heated for Halloween with wicked drag

Brisbane’s 2024 Melt festival is gearing up with further program announcements including a ‘Wicked’-inspired Halloween ball.

ArtsHub

Jul 4, 2024

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