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We report it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.

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Music review: Dela Ensemble, Second Iranian Music Festival

This troupe aims to introduce traditional Iranian music to a wider audience.

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Live Nation and its effect on local live music

The ABC's recent Four Corners episode revealed the impact of the US-based events promoter and venue operator, but that's not…

Leon Bridges will performed as part of the 24th A Day On The Green in 2025. A black man sitting on an outdoor chair next to a lake.
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A Day On The Green 2024-25: an ultimate guide to daycations and uplifting live music

Escape the daily grind with A Day On The Green, the one-of-a-kind outdoor live music series of events held in…

A scene from the STC season of 'Golden Blood'. Photo: Prudence Upton. Two Asian-Australian actors, a young woman and a young man, kneel on an orange-lot stage.
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Theatre review: Golden Blood, Wharf Theatre

Sydney Theatre Company presents Merlynn Tong's acclaimed Griffin Theatre production.

Two men are fighting with swords in 'William Shakespeare's Reservoir Dogs.' One man is on the ground. There are a couple of people on the sidelines looking on.
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Theatre review: William Shakespeare's Reservoir Dogs, St Martin's Theatre

How does a mash-up of Shakespeare and Tarantino work exactly?

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From theatre to fashion and everything in between... six crowd-pleasers in the arts

2025 season launches, plus a festival, membership program and end of the year dance extravaganza.

A black and white shot of the exterior of theatre in the 1960s with people in front of it using a pedestrian crossing. The Footbridge Theatre.
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Sydney’s beloved Footbridge Theatre is making a grand return

The theatre launched some of our biggest stars and is reopening after nearly 20 years, writes Laura Ginters.

Singer Esperanza Spalding with her back turned to the camera. She has a jacket with the words 'life force' and is carrying some pink flowers. Her brown hair is styled in cornrows.
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Music review: Esperanza Spalding, Hamer Hall

Esperanza Spalding was part musical theatre, part performance art, all entertainment.

Karla Dickens, '#2 Rise and Fall', Inkjet prints. Recipient of the 2024 Windmill Trust Scholarship. A brown-skinned woman in a witchy outfit sitting on a shopping trolley filled with plastic waste as teh ground around them is flooded.
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Opportunities and awards

Scholarship for landscape artists, winners of The Reading Prize and more!

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