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Theatre Royal Sydney has had its old wooden stage replaced by a modern, modular design. Taken from the dress circle, the photo shows the replacement of the stage in process.
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Modern new staging installed at Theatre Royal Sydney

The new, modular stage has been built utilising sustainable materials, while the old wooden stage has been repurposed and donated.

An Indian man, Delhi Buoy, in a white T-shirt and a black cap is standing with his arms spread out.
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Comedy review: The Racist Immigrants, Sydney Fringe Festival

POC comedians indulge and take a swipe at ethnic stereotypes.

coiled shiny gold fabric sculpture on gallery floor. Tarryn Gill.
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Exhibition review: Tarryn Gill: Soft, Gallery Sally Dan Cuthbert

Soft sculptures that challenge our perceptions of the body.

Sydney Festival's incoming Festival Director Kris Nelson. Kris sits on a stairwell smiling; he has short-cropped brown hair and a moustache, and wears an olive-coloured shirt.
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Sydney Festival announces Canadian Kris Nelson as 2026-2029 Festival Director

Nelson, previously the AD/CEO of London International Festival of Theatre and Dublin Fringe's Festival Director, will start his tenure with…

Six dancers are in various bodily formations. The light behind them is a light blue. Twofold.
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Dance reviews: Twofold, Rosyln Packer Theatre

Sydney Dance Company’s latest offering is a double act: Rafael Bonachela’s 'Impermanence' – which debuted in 2021 – and a…

Two people are seated with sheafs of paper between them on a table in 'Two Strangers Walk Into a Bar'.
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Theatre review: Two Strangers Walk into a Bar..., Sydney Fringe Festival

An immersive experience awaits in this participatory production, which invites questions about human connection. 

A long haired young woman in glasses wearing a brown shirt and smiling at the camera.
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Late bloomers: going from corporate to comedy

There are those who are 'born in a trunk' and there are those who spend time in the corporate world…

The 2024 Bankstown Biennale curatorium. (Left) Coby Edgar (A b&w photo in high contrast of a person with a serious expression, with long dark hair).(Centre) Still from ‘Brute Force >> Merge Sort’, Jason Wing, 2019. (A photo of a person with short brown hair and a long beard, with what appears to be two emblems painted on his face. There is a red square hovering over his right side of the face, which has been digitally manipulated into black and white). (Right) Rachael Kiang (A b&w photo of a person smiling with long curly dark hair).
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2024 Bankstown Biennale tackles differences through shared stories

Bankstown Arts Centre's third First Nations-led Biennale centres equitable multiculturalism through the theme 'Same Same/Different'.

A scene from 'Cinderella' ('Cendrillon') at Royal Opera House 2011; Laurent Pelly’s production has been programmed as part of Opera Australia's 2025 Sydney season. Four performers in horse costumes draw a carriage shaped like the letter C, in which a woman in a white ball gown is singing.
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Opera Australia launches 2025 season with four musicals and homegrown talent

The national opera company’s 2025 season features a mix of accessible and canonical works.

crowd of people viewing an art fair, Sydney Contemporary
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All was fair at the fair – a counterview on Sydney Contemporary

Last week ArtsHub published one insider's view of the recent art fair; it prompted this alternative view from the owner…

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