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Performance reviews: Hope and Gluttony, Adelaide Fringe Festival

A choir full of hope and other assorted goodies in this year's Adelaide Fringe.

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Theatre review: Berlin, The Stables Meat Market, North Melbourne

Secrets and lies, the past and the present: Joanna Murray-Smith's play returns for a short season.

Irish actor Stephen Rea in Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape' at Adelaide Festival 2025. The photograph depicts Rea, an older fair-skinned man with an unruly shock of greying hair, hunched over an old reel-to-reel tape deck to which he listens anxiously.
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Theatre review: Krapp’s Last Tape with Stephen Rea, Adelaide Festival 2025

A masterful actor performs Beckett’s masterpiece about the inevitable march of time: an unmissable production.

Sebastian Geilings in Australian Dance Theatre's 'A Quiet Language', Adelaide Festival 2025.
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Dance review: A Quiet Language, Australian Dance Theatre, Adelaide Festival 2025

A complex, compelling production, by turns anguished and joyous, angry and elegiac, honouring six decades of radical dance history.

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Ballet review: Relâche: The Last Dance on Earth, Odeon Theatre, Hobart 

A fusion of dance, Dadaist performance art and silent film.

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Arts news watch: this week's trending topics

We report it – you read it. Keep your eye on this week's top arts news stories.

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When the 'War of the Worlds' lands in three places at once...

The logistics of staging one festival production in three different locations concurrently is challenging enough. But what happens when you…

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Back come the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Funny Tonners...

After a great launch to the partnership last year, ArtsHub and MICF are again joining forces to bring you the…

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Theatre review: The Children’s Hour, Old Fitz Theatre

Ninety years on from when Lillian Hellman first wrote the play, its story is still relevant.

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Performance reviews: Samsara: A Cine-Concert, Ultimate Safari, LEGENDS (of the Golden Arches) Perth Festival

Three short-run shows at Perth Festival explore a range of topics and mediums.

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