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This week's arts news and trending topics
We report it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.
![Pamela Rabe, will co-conceive and direct a new production of Beckett's 'Happy Days' with Nick Schlieper. A woman with black hair streaked with white is covered with bits of rubbish, cast offs of material and other detritus.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/06_Happy-Days_Pamela-Rabe_Rene-Vaile.jpg?w=310)
Kip Williams signs off as Artistic Director with STC 2025 season announcement
The STC's 2025 season features some Australian classics, returning and interstate hits, plus some intriguing debuts.
![Anna Yen plays Mrs Chen in ‘AI May’, an elderly migrant mother grappling with grief in an increasingly lonely society. An elderly Asian woman wearing a sage coloured hoodie is holding a burning incense in her hands, she appears to be praying with her eyes closed.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Mother-and-Incense-e1724818190279.jpeg?w=310)
A diasporic theatrical take on AI, with an Asian immigrant mother in futuristic Brisbane
In a new bilingual theatre production, an immigrant mother seeks solace in a humanoid following the death of her daughter.
![A render of Laak Boorndap, the new urban garden being built as part of the Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Laak-Boorndap_garden-being-built-in-Melbourne-Arts-Precinct_Melbourne-Arts-Precinct-Transformation_Render-8_Supplied-by-MAP-Co-web.jpg?w=310)
New urban garden, Laak Boorndap, revealed for Melbourne Arts Precinct
Situated on an elevated deck, the 18,000 square metres of parkland will provide a quick, accessible and safe connection from…
![A carefully staged and rather camp photograph of two men dressed in white and lounging on a white couch. A statue of a golden lion sits beside one of the men, who are the stars of Sydney Festival's 'Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera'.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SF_Siegfried__Roy_Hero-Image-by-@-Jacqui-Manning.jpg?w=310)
What happens in Vegas comes to Sydney Festival: Siegfried & Roy opera set for world premiere
A new chamber opera about Las Vegas magicians Siegfried and Roy has been announced as the centrepiece production of the…
![The opening night of Hibberd's final play, 'Killing Time' at the Carlton Courthouse. L-R: John Timlin, Jim Daly, Jack Hibberd, Don Bridges, Evelyn Krape. Photo: Courtesy of Don Bridges.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/457061733_1212033913162820_554698131392335101_n_a52d64.jpg?w=310)
Vale Jack Hibberd – great Australian playwright and author of Dimboola
Jack Hibberd, the author of 'Dimboola' and one of Australia's best known and most prolific playwrights, has died.
![Jo Davies is a grey-haired, fair-skinned, middle-aged woman wearing a grey and black scarf, a grey cardigan and a black shirt. Jo Davies has left Opera Australia under dramatic circumstances as of today.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Jo-Davies-credit-Kirstie-Young.webp?w=310)
Opera Australia Artistic Director quits over ‘differences of opinion’
Jo Davies has abruptly left Australia’s national opera company less than a year after commencing her role.
![Peering inside the set design for the final Slingsby production, 'A Concise Compendium of Wonder'. In the photo, a man peers through a small doorway into the interior of the model.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Building-internal-e1724983491391.jpg?w=310)
Slingsby Theatre Company’s 2026 production to be its last
The South Australian company will wind up in its 20th year with a final, ambitious work.
![Sam Clark has died aged 40. Image is a Caucasian man with slicked back hair, a clipped greying beard and a big smile. He is wearing a white shirt, dark tie and a grey suit jacket.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/457064513_18453549745019414_1119334909274534026_n-e1724875840412.jpg?w=310)
Vale Sam Clark
Sam Clark's impressive theatre career included producing and acting at Brisbane's Metro Arts, before launching a successful New York company.
!['Victorian vampires' wins popular vote at Australian Life photography competition, taken by Chrissie Hall of herself and her two daughters dressed up. The photo sets up the ambiance of a Victorian era home with animal taxidermy, vintage leather sofas and low lighting. The three are depicted wearing black and red gowns and sharp vampire teeth.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Victorian-Vampires-Image-Credit-Chrissie-Hall-e1724734393856.jpg?w=310)
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