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A man and woman facing each other. They are both dressed in Regency costumes. In the background are four other characters moving chairs around.
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Theatre review: Pride & Prejudice, Playhouse Theatre, QPAC

Jane Austen’s 'universally acknowledged' novel has been newly adapted by Queensland Theatre in a stunning production.   

Gravity and Other Myths' 'The Mirror' at Gluttony, Adelaide Fringe 2025.
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Performance reviews: Gravity and Other Myths’ The Mirror, Sawdust, The LadyBoys of Bangkok, Adelaide Fringe 2025

A playful children’s circus show, a slickly performed Thai drag show and the latest production from local powerhouse Gravity and…

A bare-chested man with black pants is holding onto a woman in white. There is a white railing behind them.
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Ballet review: Nijinsky, Regent Theatre

The Australian Ballet is in its element for John Neumeier's 'Nijinsky'.

A crowd scene of 'Candide'. The dancing cast is dressed in period costume. There is a faded caravan behind them.
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Opera review: Candide, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House

Bernstein’s crowd-pleasing comic operetta will have audiences laughing at the absurdity of extreme ideas.

'Garry Starr: Classic Penguins' at The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide Fringe 2025. A photoshopped image of a fair-skinned man with curly black hair and a neat beard wearing an orange-coloured Elizabethan ruff. His arms from the elbows down, and his body from the waist down, have been photoshopped to appear like a penguin. He leans on his left flipper and sits on his left penguin hip, his orange penguin feet and right flipper raised.
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Performance reviews: Garry Starr: Classic Penguins and Thunderstuck: A Night of Classic Rock, Adelaide Fringe 2025

From brilliant, in-your-face clowning to contemporary dance performed to a virtuosic live violin score of rock classics, two fascinating but…

Larsen C: six dancers in metallic grey/black costumes pictured in synchronous movement bending sideways against a black backdrop.
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Dance review: Larsen C, State Theatre Centre of WA

A stunning collusion of minimalist movement and brilliant lighting design, this dance work heightens our awareness of the elemental forces…

GRIT Productions' 'BITE' at The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide Fringe. A sex positive circus-burlesque-cabaret. The phto depicts a female-identitying performer pol-dancing, but the pole is untethered and the performer is using circus skills as as pole-dancing skills to create the scene.
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Cabaret review: Bite, The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide Fringe

A queer 'spiegeltent style' cabaret celebrating sex positivity in the face of growing homophobic hate globally.

A scene from A Daylight Connection's 'A Nightime Travesty' at Malthouse Theatre for Asia TOPA 2025. Two Aboriginal women dressed as airline stewardesses stand on a blue-lit set as bloody rags fall from above. Behind them at stage right stands a sexy, shirtless, Aboriginal actor playing Death; at stage left, two musicians are visible.
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Theatre review: A Nightime Travesty, Malthouse Theatre, Asia TOPA 2025

A ferociously funny, controlled yet chaotic Blak vaudevillian comedy that pulls no punches and decapitates its prisoners.

Two women and five men inside a house. You can see a darkened sky outside.
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Theatre review: And Then There Were None, Comedy Theatre

The best selling crime novel of all time receives another stage adaptation.

An African Australian woman with long dark haired tied back, a Caucasian woman with a messy blonde bun, an Indian man with a black bun and a Caucasian man with short blond hair sit around a pit with sand in it drinking espresso martinis on stage set decorated like a Turkish restaurant. Never Have I Ever, Melbourne Theatre Company.
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Theatre review: Never Have I Ever, Fairfax Studio

Both witty and wily, Deborah Frances-White's play makes for a very entertaining night in the theatre.

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