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a crowd of people dressed up like zombies for ghost festival
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New Ghost Festival riffs off The Rocks' eerie past this Halloween

Get your ghost on, and head to Australia's oldest precinct to celebrate Halloween this year with a new festival.

silhouette of figure in colourful immersive art experience. Rainbow Chan. Performance Space and UNSW
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Performance Space expands partnership with UNSW

With a vision to elevate experimental arts, two of Sydney’s iconic arts organisations come together in a new residency program.

A group of dancers, all in black, the women in stockings and the men in trousers, all holding top hats in the air, in the production of 'A Chorus Line.'
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Musical Review: A Chorus Line, National Theatre

A new remount of a classic musical that still holds up well.

Jessica Clarke, with her fair hair blown awry and wearing a brown jacket in production of 'Iphigenia in Splott.'
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Theatre Review: Iphigenia in Splott, Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre

A solo performance about deprivation and the socially marginalised.

A teenage boy with dark hair and an oversized sweater is hanging onto a railing. You're the Man by Paul Mitchell at La Mama Courthouse.
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Theatre Review: You’re The Man, La Mama Courthouse

Domestic and intergenerational violence are played out in this production.

A older woman wrapped up in a black shawl is standing on the right hand side of the frame. There is a beam of white light on the left. Mother with Noni Hazlehurst.
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Theatre review: Mother, Arts Centre Melbourne

A powerhouse performance from Noni Hazlehurst, but the depiction of mothers experiencing addiction may leave a bad taste in your…

Four men and three women are walking on wooden boards of differing heights. They are dressed in casual clothes. In a Nutshell, The Poetry of Violence by Bell Shakespeare.
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Theatre review: In a Nutshell: The Poetry of Violence, Neilson Nutshell, Pier 2/3

In its latest Shakespearean mash-up, Bell Shakespeare explores the nature of violence in the Bard’s work.

drama class. A group of young performers in an alley are all stretching their arms out and looking up in formation. The younger woman in the middle is in a greeny blue sleeveless dress.
Education & Student News

What’s the point of drama class? Ask employers...

For a start, drama classes teach the workplace skills employers want.

Four figures dressed like cowboys emerge from a yellow-lit haze. A woman kneels in the foreground over a backpack. This is a scene from the 2024 production of NORPA's 'Wildskin'. Photo: Kurt Petersen.
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From proscenium arch to place-based: reimagining Wildskin

Adapting an existing work for an entirely new setting is not without its challenges, but overcoming such challenges leads to…

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.

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