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Exhibition review: Hair Pieces, Heide Museum of Modern Art

An exploration of the significance of hair in contemporary culture through Australian and international art.

English. Southbank Theatre. A classroom set up on stage, with pastel green walls and an orange curtain on the left side. A woman is standing in front of a whiteboard. There is a man and three women surrounding her.
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Theatre review: English, Southbank Theatre

The challenges of learning a second language are played out in an Iranian classroom.

A man is lounging in a bed, wrapped up in bedsheets. On the right, crouching is a figure dressed up in a fancy frock and headgear.
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Theatre review: The Importance of Being Earnest, fortyfivedownstairs

Cucumbers aplenty in a production of Oscar Wilde's classic work that also interweaves the playwright into the show.

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Exhibition review: Jurassic World: The Exhibition

A new immersive exhibition brings full-sized moving dinosaurs to Melbourne's inner north.

Four panels of artwork featuring four people, two men and two women.
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Exhibition review: John Mandich and Jean-Paul Zilliacus, Montsalvat (Barn Gallery)

John Mandich showcases 25 Archibald portraits in the only place big enough for them, Montsalvat’s Barn Gallery, co-exhibiting with sculptor…

A young couple are sitting on a park bench The male is cradling a white bundle, made to look like a baby is within it.
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Theatre review: Romeo & Julie, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre

Though the title alludes to Shakespeare's classic tale, this contemporary play focuses mainly on the struggles of young love.

Tay Lawler, a balding, older Anglo-Australian man wearing a white shirt and tie, stands in front of a theatre advertising the 1977 revival of 'Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'. He is holding a pink Kewpie Doll, like those featured in the play.
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Vale Ray Lawler: the playwright who changed the sound of Australian theatre

Julian Meyrick reflects on the death of playwright Ray Lawler and his landmark play, 'Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'.

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Exhibition review: Samira Khadivizand, Elaine Batton and Bridie Nelson, Artemisia Gallery and Event Space

A relatively new art gallery in Melbourne’s inner-south once again proves it attracts some of Australia’s best emerging artists.

Two Remain. Three women are singing. They are wearing blue and white concentration camp stripes underneath beige aprons and head scarves.
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Opera review: Two Remain, fortyfivedownstairs

This premiere Australian production features the true stories of two Holocaust survivors.

Tow men wearing pink hoodies and cake smudged on their faces. Dowel Jones.
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How collaboration bolsters creativity

Victorian design studio Dowel Jones has involved over 2000 collaborators to create its new exhibition at the National Wool Museum.

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