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Opera for the Dead performance shot, featuring two movable stages, each with a performing standing at its centre, slightly obscured by black stingy curtains. The image is dark other than the stage being slightly illuminated from below.
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Performance review: Opera for the Dead (祭歌), Asia TOPA 2025

A cyber-opera that deserves the world stage.

Three young girls in school uniform are holding back their teacher, who's dressed in white, with a straw hat.
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Theatre review: Picnic at Hanging Rock, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House

The Sydney’s Theatre Company’s production lives up to the reputations of both the well-regarded book and the classic film.

Close up pf priest collar.
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Theatre review: The Christian Brothers, Holden Street Theatres, Adelaide Fringe Festival

A well-executed and chilling account of Catholic education in days gone by.

A man in a cap and a vest over a white shirt. There is mist around him.
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Theatre review: Criminal Outsider, various venues, Adelaide Fringe

Never underestimate the power of a woman.

Caroline Lee, with brown hair in pony tail and wearing blue top, is tussling with Peter Houghton, a man with grey hair in a suit. Honour.
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Theatre review: Honour, Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre

An excellent production of a 30-year-old play, but it does feel a bit dated.

A man (Borja Maestre) and a woman (Sarah Peirse) are hugging. They are in spotlight. There is darkness around them.
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Theatre review: Song of First Desire, Belvoir St Theatre

A compelling play about the inheritance of fascism in Spain.

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.   

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 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.

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