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Simon Halsey conducting the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra's 'Voices en Masse', 2023.
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Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra sounds warning over stadium’s planned location

Building a football stadium just 40 metres from the TSO’s purpose-built performing and recording headquarters, is giving the Orchestra a…

Silhouette of figures on stage with orange back lighting. Touring live theatre
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Performance exchange – the new way of touring?

It's a 'Disaster' waiting to happen – and that's a good thing for all involved. Find out how the NZ…

Close up face of a man, Tom Moran. He has a lolly with the word 'liar' on it in his mouth.
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Comedy review: Tom Moran is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar, Trades Hall

Why has Tom Moran lied all throughout his life? The comedian-performer reflects on his penchant for fib-telling.

Seven women dressed in pink netball uniform are standing with their coach, who's in the middle holding up the netball.
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Theatre review: Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence, Trades Hall

Competition to get to the netball top - Shakespearean ambition as cabaret.

A promotional image for Black Swan’s 2025 production, ‘August: Osage County’. Five actors pose for the camera against a bacldrop formed by a bright red field and a blue sky. A tree-encircled family home is visible in the distance.
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Black Swan’s 2025 season designed to challenge and nourish audiences

Seven productions are featured in Black Swan State Theatre Company’s 2025 season, including new Australian works and a modern American…

The cast of 'Classifried': two women and three men are emoting and gesticulating.
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Theatre review: Classifried! The MKUltra Sitcom, The Butterfly Club

The theatre audience becomes a sitcom audience in this comedic offering.

2024 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship recipient Leigh Rigozzi in front of 'The Complete Works of Pieter Bruegel 2022-2024'. Rigozzi is a man with fair skin, short cropped brown hair and a graying beard, wearing black rimmed glasses and a speckled shirt, smiling at the camera and standing in front of a series of colourful illustrations.
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Opportunities and awards

Canberra Theatre Centre seeking performance makers, 2024 Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards winners and ARA Historical Novel prize shortlist, plus…

Colarado's Takács Quartet will collaborate with Australian actor Angie Milliken in Musica Viva Australia's 2025 season. One woman and three men, the members of a string quartet, play on a wooden stage against a blue-lit backdrop.
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A year of innovation and tradition for Musica Viva Australia in 2025

Musica Viva Australia has launched an expansive, evocative season for the coming year, celebrating 80 years of chamber music with…

Iceland's Sigur Rós will perform a series of orchestral concerts in Australia in May 2025. Three white men pose in black against a black background.
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Sigur Rós announce Australian orchestral tour with ASO, MSO and others

The popular Icelandic post-rock group will perform with a 41-piece chamber orchestra in order to bring their latest album to…

The stage is dark except for a spotlight shining over Nicci Wilks in the production of 'BAD BOY".
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Theatre review: BAD BOY, fortyfivedownstairs

A one-person show exploring toxic masculinity and domestic abuse.

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