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Dressed in yellow and green robes with ornate headwear, two Asian-Australian artists, Joe Paradise Lui (left) and Merlynn Tong (right), pose against a red background. Promotional image for the 2025 MTC production 'Legends (of the Golden Arches)'. MTC 2025 season.
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MTC launches 2025 season with revivals, remounts and new Australian work

Brave programming and resonant stories are central to Anne-Louise Sarks’ third MTC season as Artistic Director.

Mzaza's six musicians (and their instruments) stand in front of a large circular structure.
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Music review: Mzaza: The Birth and Death of Stars, Riverside Theatres 

Mzaza’s current Australian tour sees the world music favourites deliver a powerful concert experience with strong theatrical elements.

Eyse Phelan wearing a cap, vest and shirt is reading out from a piece of paper. As You Like It by TheatreiNQ
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Theatre review: As You Like It, Queen's Gardens, Townsville

Sparkling performances and a strong ensemble mark this Shakespeare production.

A scene from 'Jean Paul Gaultier's Fashion Freak Show' at Brisbane Festival, featuring an array of performers dressed in colourful designs posing on a catwalk, surrounded by seated audience members.
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Festival review: Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show, South Bank Piazza

This semi-autobiographical stage show exploring the French fashion designer’s life and career is visually splendid but, ironically, lacking in theatrical…

'Hamlet's Jacob Colins-Levy, a young man with brown hair and a black singlet carrying a skull.
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Theatre review: Hamlet, fortyfivedownstairs

A few directorial choices let down this otherwise fine contemporary interpretation of 'Hamlet'.

A black and white photo of a man in the show 'Renfield.'. His mouth is, however, bloody and red.
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Festival review: Renfield, Edinburgh Festival Fringe

A solo show that took full advantage of Edinburgh's Gothic ambience.

A publicity image for Belvoir's 2025 adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. A dark-haired woman in a purple jacket, a red-haired woman in a period dress, and a dark-haired young man in a ruffled shirt and frock coat look towards the camera. Golden glitter showers down around them.
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Grief, hilarity, classics and culture are celebrated in Belvoir’s 2025 season

Artistic Director Eamon Flack has launched a season of nine plays for Belvoir’s 2025 subscription season.

Crowd dancing within art gallery, with colour flags and lights. NGV Indian Community Day
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Bollywood vibes activate NGV for all at the Indian Community Day

Be transported with Bollywood dancing, dhol drumming and DJ sets at NGV’s Indian Community Day.

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.

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