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A photograph of comedian Zoë Coombs Marr, a Caucasian woman with long brown hair and a short-sleeved brown T shirt. She is resting her chin on one hand, but both hands are wearing oversize gloves that look like real hands.
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Hobart Festival of Comedy returns in 2025 with line-up now announced

After a successful inaugural event this year, the Comedy Festival will return in 2025 to showcase local and international acts.

Night Mass, Dark Mofo 2023. A big crowd gathered beneath a stage where a solo performer is cast in electric red light.
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Dark Mofo announces full return in 2025 after one-year hiatus

Pre-sale tickets for Night Mass, Dark Mofo’s signature city takeover, will go live on 5 November.

Simon Halsey conducting the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra's 'Voices en Masse', 2023.
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Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra sounds warning over stadium’s planned location

Building a football stadium just 40 metres from the TSO’s purpose-built performing and recording headquarters, is giving the Orchestra a…

Kirsha Kaechele and supporters, Ladies Lounge Supreme Court of Tasmania Hearing. A group of more than 20 women wearing navy business suits lined up in single file, with Kirsha at the front.
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Determined to 'drive men crazy', Mona’s Ladies Lounge saga continues in the Supreme Court

Artist Kirsha Kaechele has appealed the ruling to allow men inside Mona’s Ladies Lounge and feels “inspired” by the Supreme…

A dancer in 'The Hearth' with long brown hair is balancing on one leg in the centre of the room. Other dancers are on the right side.
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Dance review: The Hearth, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

Young dancers in a site-specific work explore the concept of safe spaces.

Black and white photograph of bones on a table. Bett Gallery.
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Exhibition review: Neil Haddon and David Stephenson, Bett Gallery, Hobart

An unlikely pairing of two of Tasmania’s established artists, shaking up the landscape genre.

Why is a Holden Torana next to a Henry Ottmann? Image: 'Namedropping' installation view at Mona. Photo: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. A car and a painting sit in juxtaposition across two starkly different exhibition spaces.
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Mona's big flex – how David Walsh wrote himself into the books

'Namedropping' is an all-consuming exhibition about questioning status, but by doing so, Mona owner David Walsh has cunningly bolstered his…

A silver CD case is opened to display the rare 2-CD set it contains.
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Wu-Tang Clan’s ultra-rare album-as-artwork comes to Mona

Originally sold for US$2 million, the ultra-exclusive ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ is coming to Mona, and fans have…

I Wish... In front of a backdrop of a huge moon in the night sky, four circus performers dressed in yellow, blue, red and green perform, with two performers holding aloft a third who is doing the splits, while the fourth performer stands at the back holding up an Astera light tube.
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Performance review: I Wish..., Theatre Royal

Children's circus in a collaborative effort that gently introduced young visitors to physical theatre.

ROOKE perform Nimble at Theatre Royal Hobart. A balding man with a beard holds a hoop up over the heads of an audience of children and parents sitting on the floor. He wears a green T shirt and white shorts.
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Circus review: (Excerpts from) Nimble, Theatre Royal

Tasmania's circus troupe presented a show nimble in name and act.

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